The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul.
Philosophers
Chrysippus of Soli
Born c. 279 BC in Soli, Chrysippus became the Stoic school's third head and systematized its logic, physics, and ethics so thoroughly he earned the title Second Founder of Stoicism. His propositional logic endures.
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Chrysippus of Soli's Other Quotes
The wise man is free from passions, not because he does not feel, but because his judgments are correct.
If Chrysippus had not existed, the Stoa would not have existed.
Fate is a natural order of all things, following one upon another from eternity, and their intertwining is inviolable.
If one had the logic of Chrysippus, one would not need the gods.
Related Quotes
Fate is a natural order of all things, following one upon another from eternity, and their intertwining is inviolable.
-- Chrysippus of Soli
The cosmos itself is a living being — wise, provident, intelligent.
-- Posidonius
All is number.
-- Pythagoras
God, or Nature.
-- Benedictus de Spinoza
Has creation a final goal? And if so, why was it not reached at once?... Because God is Life, and not merely Being.
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God.
-- Johann Gottlieb Fichte