Quotes About Transcendence

Know thyself? Dasein sensed then he couldn't know himself without dying. Death was the background against which life could know itself.

When Page describes Google reshaping the future of humanity, this isn't simply a description of the convenience it provides; what it aims to redirect is the course of evolution, in the Darwinian sense of the word. It's not too grandiose to claim that they are attempting to create a superior species, a species that transcends our natural form.

Peaceful moon. I consist only of bones.

Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue.

Then birds flew up like a shower of sparks, I followed them with my eyes and saw how they rose in a single breath, until they seemed no longer to be rising but I to be falling...

But sometimes I really felt as though the starry sky rose and fell with the gasping of his chest.

I never wish to be easily defined. I'd rather float over other people's minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable, more like a transparent, paradoxically, iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

There is a place where I never was before: here breathing is different, and more dazzling than the sun is the radiance of a star beside it.

But happiness only if I can raise the world into the Pure, the True, the Immutable.

Before setting foot in the Holy of the Holies you must take off your shoes, yet not only your shoes, but everything; you must take off your traveling-garment and lay down your luggage; and under that you must shed your nakedness and everything that is under the nakedness and everything that hides beneath that, and then the core and the core of the core, then the remainder and then the residue and then even the Holy of the Holies and let yourself be absorbed by it; neither can resist the other.

Ciertamente, perros, pero no para morir aquí, sino para llegar allá, a la verdad, para salir de este mundo de mentiras, donde no se encuentra a nadie de quien obtener la verdad, tampoco de mi, ciudadano innato de la mentira

that wasn't mere beauty, but an aberration of heaven

The church tower, firm in line, soaring unfalteringly to its tapering point, topped with red tiles and broad in the roof, an earthly building – what else can men build? – but with a loftier goal than the humble dwelling-houses and a clearer meaning than the muddle of everyday life.

Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.

We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time.

After a while, you can't get any higher. It's like your head is in a wind tunnel - everything is vibrating.

I leave everything on the floor so when I step off the floor I am already wind down. I don't hold anything back.

We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.

If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.

We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.