Walter Terence Stace Short Quotes

15 Sourced Quotes

View all Walter Terence Stace Quotes
Mystics more often than not avoid direct reference to themselves.

Walter Terence Stace
The true religious doctrine is that the world is to be both denied and not to be denied.

Walter Terence Stace
The pure religious consciousness lies in a region which is forever beyond all proof or disproof.

Walter Terence Stace
Thus to say that God is ineffable is to say that no concepts apply to Him, and that He is without qualities.

Walter Terence Stace
Emotions are subjective, but psychological laws or statements about emotions, if they are true, are objective truths.

Walter Terence Stace
There is no such thing as natural theology. God is either known by revelation - that is to say, by intuition - or not at all.

Walter Terence Stace
All religious thought and speech are through and through symbolic. And this fundamental insight is perhaps as old as religion itself.

Walter Terence Stace
It is certainly the case that there can exist an atheistic mysticism, a mystical experience naked and not clothed in any religious garb.

Walter Terence Stace
The same character of revelation, which we find in poetry, attaches to mystical illumination, although here the revelation is always the divine.

Walter Terence Stace
The task of thought in our time is to replace the lost religious and metaphysical foundation of morals by a secular and naturalistic foundation.

Walter Terence Stace
It must now be added that these attempts at proof not only fail of their purpose, and so do no good to religion, but that they positively degrade it.

Walter Terence Stace
And in the end it is because of mysticism that it is possible to say that no man is an island and that on the contrary every man is a part of the main.

Walter Terence Stace
Thus we see that mysticism naturally, though not necessarily, becomes intimately associated with whatever is the religion of the culture in which it appears.

Walter Terence Stace
The great error of traditional proofs of the existence of god is that they try to take a symbolic truth for a literal truth, a truth of fact, and then try to prove that it is a fact.

Walter Terence Stace
Morals have a perfectly firm and objective foundation in human personality. If men can be brought to understand this, then moral faith may be restored. The problem is really one of education.

Walter Terence Stace