Quotes About Supreme

Perhaps the most overpowering contrast [with the West] is the virtual absence in premodern China of the idea of a transcendent creator God who is distinct from Nature in a fundamental qualitative sense. The Chinese had notions of a supreme god in various guises (that is, 'hypatotheism'), and also, as we have seen, of a somewhat demiurge-like 'transformer' constantly reshaping the cosmos.

Cicero argues that the source of justice, truth, virtue, etc.—in a word, morality—is natural law. It is permanent and supreme, unalterable by man or his institutions.

Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.

Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.

If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological - indeed, genetic - goal.

When we acknowledge Gods supreme role in our life and set our mind on Him, He enables us to be women of hope.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Selfless action and love for others if given, receives supreme love from the hearts of countless in returns.

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.

The Prophet also spoke of the supreme degree insofar as it can be reached during life on earth, and this saying is one of those which are called Holy traditions because they transmit the direct words of God: "My slave ceaseth not to draw near unto Me with devotions of his free will until I love him; and when I love him I am the hearing with which he heareth and the sight with which he seeth and the hand with which he graspeth and the foot on which he walketh.

Scripture alone is the true lord and master of all writings and doctrine on earth.

our Lord God is an artist like unto none…

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

When you are about to hand control of the senate and people of Rome, the armies, the provinces, the allies to one man alone, would you look to the belly of a wife to produce him or search for an heir to supreme power only within the walls of your own home? … If he is to rule over all, he must be chosen from all.' Tacitus

Love, thou art absolute sole Lord Of life and death

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited

God is the first and best, and therefore must have the first and best.

May it not be the supreme aim of life thus to bring to birth the inexplicable within ourselves; and do we know how much we add to ourselves when we awake something of the incomprehensible that slumbers in every corner? Here you have awakened love which will not fall asleep again. … nothing can ever separate two souls which, for an instant, 'have been good together.

But the collective contribution of U.S. and British cryptanalysts to the war effort was greater than that of any other such small body of men in history. Their operations provided the supreme example of the Western Allies' imaginative integration into the war effort of their cleverest civilian intellects.

A God who is trying to convince people that He is a God is not a God! He is just a clown disguised as a God! No supreme power can be in need of convincing men!

From India to the Mediterranean, in fact, she reigned supreme, often appearing as the unmarried goddess.

God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist.

No greater affirmation of life is possible than to wish every part of it to return to you forever. It is the sublime moment when a person can look at his life, no matter what it consists of – good, bad, or indifferent – and find within himself the desire never to be freed from any aspect of it that allows a human being to be transformed into an Übermensch, the supreme life affirmer.

The Absolute is Mind – this is the supreme definition of the Absolute." -- Hegel