Gnostic Quotes
More Gnostic Quotes
Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the Gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a Gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one.
eric voegelin— Eric Voegelin, Science, Politics, and Gnosticism in Collected Works, Vol. 5: Modernity Without Restraint, edited by Manfred Henningsen, ISBN 082621245X, p. 273.
I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .
aleister crowley— III Of the Ceremony of the Introit, "Creed of the Gnostic Catholic Church"
Gnostic ideas had a considerable influence upon such idealists as Goethe , Novalis and Hegel . The theosophical movement of the 20th century with which Gnosticism has much in common, rightly claims the Gnostics as its spiritual ancestor. Jungian psychology , which owes not a little to this movement, can be of some help in interpreting Gnostic mythology and may help to show that behind it there is a religious experience of a certain type.
— Encyclopaedia Britannica (1963 edition), Vol. 10, p. 506.
The emanistic theories which played so great a part in Neoplatonic philosophy and Gnostic theology are forms of evolution .
thomas henry huxley— Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century (1889)
Iran's civilization and culture has become imbued and infused with humanitarianism, respect for the life, belief and faith of others, propagation of tolerance and compromise and avoidance of violence, bloodshed and war. The luminaries of Iranian literature, in particular our Gnostic literature, from Hafiz, Mowlavi [better known in the West as Rumi] and Attar to Saadi, Sanaei, Naser Khosrow and Nezami, are emissaries of this humanitarian culture.
— Shirin Ebadi, in Nobel Lecture in Nobelprize.org (10 December 2003)
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of "aGnostic." It came into my head as suggestively antithetic to the "Gnostic" of Church history, who professed to know so much about the very things of which I was ignorant. To my great satisfaction the term took.
— Thomas Huxley, in ''Christianity and Agnosticism: A Controversy (1889)
