Quotes About Transcendence

Quando um homem morre, ele se reintegra em sua respeitabilidade a mais autêntica, mesmo tendo cometido loucuras em sua vida. A morte apaga, com sua mão de ausência, as manchas do passado e a memória do morto fulge como diamante.

Daydream is the only good thing in life. Everything else is vulgar and empty.

She embodied his need to soar upward from the terrestrial humdrum.

Supuso, entonces, que ya había muerto, y que iba subiendo entre tanta y tanta estrella, subiendo muy suavemente camino directo del cielo. Después cerró los ojos. Estaba tan agotada que no se dio cuenta de que sólo en ese instante moría, y no antes, cuando creyó ver a todas las constelaciones rodeándola.

The here and now is a prison house. We must strive, in the face of the here and now's totalising rendering of reality, to think and feel a then and there. Some will say that all we have are the pleasures of this moment, but we must never settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.

Para el hombre de la generación novísima, el arte es una cosa sin trascendencia.

Whatever happens, we'll all meet in that great card-index in the sky.

Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have here below.

'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years; But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amid the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.

They departed in the form of white smoke, rose easily upward, waved their hands in parting, and viewed with pity all those who remained behind. Then they danced gaily in celebration of their new freedom, before disintegrating into the air.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

We actually contain a built-in ability to rise above restriction, incapacity, or limitation and, as a result of this ability, possess a vital adaptive spirit that we have not yet fully accessed. While this ability can lead us to transcendence, paradoxically it can lead also to violence; our longing for transcendence arises from our intuitive sensing of this adaptive potential and our violence arises from our failure to develop it.

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

Life After Life, by Raymond A. Moody, Jr., M.D.

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

The real world is simply too terrible to admit. it tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die. Culture changes all of this,makes man seem important,vital to the universe. immortal in some ways

We were witnessing the dawn of the posthuman era. The Singularity by way of simulacra and simulation.

To Jesus, the kingdom of this world was the devil. This is why he never suggested allowing it to go on; he did not conclude a non-aggression pact with it.

Pero a menudo los textos eran jeroglíficos, hay así obras para las cuales no hemos madurado como lectores hasta hoy. Se asemejan a transparentes cuyos letreros son desvelados por el resplandor del mundo del fuego.

Hoy, como siempre, los que no temen a la muerte son infinitamente superiores a los más grandes exponentes de los poderes temporales

Even if ten out of twelve men had fallen, the two survivors would surely meet over a glass on their first evening off, and drink a silent toast to their comrades, and jestingly talk over their shared experiences. There was in these men a quality of both emphasized the savagery of war and transfigured it at the same time: an objective relish for danger, the chevaleresque urge to prevail in battle.

We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators.