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Quotes from The New Divinity — Julian Huxley

1887–1975 England

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This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered.

The New Divinity (1964)

Evolution is a process, of which we are products, and in which we are active agents.

The New Divinity (1964)

God is a hypothesis constructed by man to help him understand what existence is all about.

The New Divinity (1964)

Human potentialities constitute the world's greatest resource, but at the moment only a tiny fraction of them is being realized.

The New Divinity (1964)

Whether he likes it or not, he is responsible for the whole further evolution of our planet.

The New Divinity (1964)

Such major organizations of thought may be necessary in science as much as in religion.

The New Divinity (1964)

I believe that an equally drastic reorganization of our pattern of religious thought is now becoming necessary, from a god-centered to an evolutionary-centered pattern.

The New Divinity (1964)

There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution. There is no basic cleavage between science and religion; they are both organs of evolving humanity.

The New Divinity (1964)

In developing a full, deep and rich personality the individual ceases to be a mere cog or cipher, and makes his own particular contribution to evolutionary fulfilment.

The New Divinity (1964)

Let me remind my readers that the term divine did not originally imply the existence of gods: on the contrary, gods were constructed to interpret man's experiences of this quality.

The New Divinity (1964)

The entire cosmos is made out of one and the same world-stuff, operated by the same energy as we ourselves. "Mind" and "matter" appears as two aspects of our unitary mind-bodies. There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution. There is no basic cleavage between science and religion; they are both organs of evolving humanity.

The New Divinity (1964)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Julian Huxley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.