Orson Pratt Quotes

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real.

One of the questions that always puzzled human history is, what are we, and everything around us, made of.

There is nothing in the universe but matter.

Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be judged by the laws of matter.

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.

There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter.

The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not.

To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. But matter is an abstraction of exactly the same kind, just as good and just as bad as it is. We know as much about the soul as we do of matter.

God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.

I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.

God is a reality of spirit He cannot be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects.

It doesn't matter what you do. It matters who you are.

To a materialist, matter is essential: a stone is a stone, a mountain is a mountain, water is water and earth is earth. As far as I am concerned, I am a materialist of the body, which means that the body is the basis of all my work.

Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters.

Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .

I believe that nothing that is real can pass away.

Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.