John Scotus Eriugena Quotes on God
John Scotus Eriugena was an Irish theologian and Neoplatonist philosopher active at the court of the Carolingian king Charles the Bald. This page collects quotes attributed to John Scotus Eriugena on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to John Scotus Eriugena:
“We do not know what God is. God himself does not know what he is because he is not anything.”
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Attributed to John Scotus Eriugena:
“Every visible and invisible creature is a theophany, a manifestation of God.”
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“True philosophy is true religion, and true religion is true philosophy.”
Quid est aliud de philosophia tractare, nisi verae religionis, qua summa et principalis omnium rerum causa, Deus, et humiliter colitur, et rationabiliter investigatur, regulas exponere? Conficitur inde, veram esse philosophiam veram religionem, conversimque veram religionem esse veram philosophiam. -
“No one enters heaven except through philosophy.”
Nemo intrat in caelum nisi per philosophiam. -
“When we are told that God is the maker of all things, we are simply to understand that God is in all things – that He is the substantial essence of all things.”
Cum ergo audimus, Deum omnia facere, nil aliud debemus intelligere, quam Deum in omnibus esse, hoc est, essentiam omnium subsistere.