Johannes Kepler Quotes

God is a geometrician.

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

God ever geometrizes.

If God created everything, he's got a serious quality control problem.

Why waste words? Geometry existed before the Creation, is co-eternal with the mind of God, is God himself (what exists in God that is not God himself?): geometry provided God with a model for the Creation and was implanted into man, together with God's own likeness - and not merely conveyed to his mind through the eyes.

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.

Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a "He." You cannot say God is a "She." You cannot say God is an "It." (18)

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

If God is all powerful, can He make a stone so big that He Himself can't lift it?

In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

All men bear the image of God. They have value not because they are redeemed, but because they are God's creation in God's image.

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.

God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

The impersonal aspect [of God] (Nirakara, Nirguna) is called Brahman, or 'unknowable' by Herbert Spencer, 'will' by Schopenhauer, Absolute Noumenon by some 'substance' by Spinoza. The personal aspect (Sakara) of that Being is termed 'Ishvara' or Allah, Hari, Jehova, Father in Heaven, Buddha, Siva, etc. Just as vapour or steam is formless, so also God is formless in His unmanifested or transcendental state.

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that Man is the image of God.

In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.

I agree we have enough books that attempt to explain why God allows suffering, presumably in a way that lets God off the hook. And while much smarter men than I have constructed elaborate systems in this pursuit, they are by definition exercises in speculation.

UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.

God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.

I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until we're talking about the nonexistence of God.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.