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Quotes About Absolute

same attraction and the same vertigo of the absolute
~ Joseph-Marie Perrin
any given system is as good as the next. First, we call it Christianity, then democracy, and now we call it the Method. Always claiming an absolute truth, always wanting absolute Good, and always foisting itself on the rest of the world. It's all religion.
~ Juli Zeh
instead of those broad blind alleys which philosophy showed us, a certain type of mind has always discerned three strait and narrow ways going out towards the Absolute. In religion, in pain, and in beauty-
~ Evelyn Underhill
So long, therefore, as the object of the mystic's contemplation is amenable to thought, is something which he can "know," he may be quite sure that it is not the Absolute; but only a partial image or symbol of the Absolute. To find that final Reality, he must enter into the "cloud of unknowing"--must pass beyond the plane on which the intellect can work. "When I say darkness," says the same great mystic, "I mean thereby a lack of knowing. . . .
~ Evelyn Underhill
Truth is never timeless and absolute, therefore, but continuously revealed to those who partake in critical reflection based on struggle.
~ Farid Esack
Toute Église est conquérante par nature, parce qu'elle se croit en possession de l'absolu. [...] Aucune doctrine ne peut échapper à cette fascination. Le respect des convictions adverses et la tolérance moderne sont le fruit, et chez un petit nombre, du développement de la conscience ou de la conviction que la croyance à l'absolu est une maladie de l'esprit, chez la plupart des hommes le résultat d'une grande lassitude.
~ Ferdinand Lot
un Estado no puede durar como Estado de Derecho si no se reconocen valores absolutos previos al Estado.
~ Fernando Ocariz Brana
When there is really nothing left to do or believe, except to remember, walking helps retrieve the absolute simplicity of presence, beyond all hope, before any expectation.
~ Frédéric Gros
Truth is an absolute. Or it used to be. The Maynard tapes should be released because the people should know the truth about Rusty Eggers. Who can argue with that? If the people see the truth—the full truth—and still want to hand the keys to the country to this nihilist, okay, that's one thing.
~ Harlan Coben
Seule la totalite personnifie la verite. Neanmoins, la totalite represente simplement la nature essentielle parvenant a son etat complet au travers du processus de son propre developpement. Il doit etre dit que, fondamentalement, l'Absolu est un resultat, et c'est seulement a la fin qu'il represente ce qu'il est veritablement.
~ Hegel
The Catholic Church's teachings are authoritative. There is a moral absolute on abortion - that it is wrong.
~ Jacob Rees-Mogg
I think people hear the words 'transcendental meditation' and 'paganism,' and that's almost worse because it's real. Those are real things. Those are absolute energies. Satanism is like Halloween. Transcendental meditation and having a realization of how we really are - whether we want to be or not - we live in a pagan culture.
~ Matt Skiba
I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes say the opposite of what I think and the lines get blurred, but I can only hope that some kind of absolute power transcends.
~ Sarah Silverman
When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold.
~ Ravi Zacharias
It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from absolute Beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute Beauty, and for no other reason... [I]t is by Beauty that beautiful things are beautiful.
~ Socrates
The View is the comprehension of the naked awareness, within which everything is contained: sensory perception and phenomenal existence, samsara and nirvana. This awareness has two aspects: 'emptiness' as the absolute, and appearances or perception as the relative.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
the true meaning of "blessing"—a transformation in which your mind transcends into the state of the absolute.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
The sky is our absolute nature, which has no barriers and is boundless, and the ground is our reality, our relative, ordinary condition.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes provided an exposition of the collective, suprapersonal, absolute unconscious—these terms being used interchangeably. Jung argued that one needed to separate oneself from the unconscious by presenting it visibly as something separate from one. It was vital to differentiate the I from the non-I, namely, the collective psyche or absolute unconscious.
~ Sonu Shamdasani
Who can say what love at the feet of the absolute truth means?
~ Sorin Cerin
The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies.
~ Sorin Cerin
Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity.
~ Sorin Cerin
she was never to be allowed to exchange a word with him; and that she was forbidden to pay him a visit even when he was ailing. He was quarantined from her as if she had been suffering from the plague. She was actually forbidden to converse with Simon the shoemaker, the boy's tutor, from whom she might have gleaned a little information about her son. His seclusion from her was to be unconditional and absolute.
~ Stefan Zweig
Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
~ John Howard