Logos, in ancient and medieval philosophy and theology, the divine reason that acts as the ordering principle of the universe. Sixth-century BC Greek philosopher Heraclitus asserted that the world is governed by the Logos, a divine force that produces order in the flux of nature. In Stoicism of the 4th century BC, the Logos is conceived as a rational divine power that directs the universe. Through the faculty of reason, all human beings share in the divine reason. According to 1st-century AD Jewish-Hellenistic philosopher Philo Judaeus, the Logos can be understood as the Divine Wisdom that is inherently part of the world.

Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperspace dimensional, and extremely alien. What is driving religious feeling [today] is a wish for contact [with that] Other. – Terence McKenna

 

I love mankind; it’s people I can’t stand. – Charles Schultz

 

Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is a good thing. Fleas are interested in dogs. - P. J. O’Rourke

 

The first and last thing demanded of genius is the love of truth.-Goethe