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Quotes About Transcendence

To philosophize is to learn to die – philosophizing is a soaring up to the Godhead – the knowledge of Being as Being. from "Philosophy and Science", World Review Magazine (March 1950)
~ Karl Jaspers
For one wishing to philosophize, it is of particular, indeed of crucial importance to ascertain the difference between the object cognition that is achieved in the sciences and the transcending thought that characterizes philosophy......which transcend[s] the limits of the knowable and of the world as a whole, so that through these limits we become aware of the phenomenality of empirical existence and hence of the Comprehensive nature of being, thus entering into the area of faith.
~ Karl Jaspers
Omul nu-ÅŸi descoper? adev?ratul sine decât în situaÅ£ii-limit?.
~ Karl Jaspers
felsefe yapmak ölmeyi öÄŸrenmektir.
~ Karl Jaspers
For one wishing to philosophize, it is particular, indeed of crucial importance to ascertain the difference between the object cognition that is achieved in the sciences and the transcending thought that characterizes philosophy......which transcend[s] the limits of the knowable and of the world as a whole, so that through these limits we become aware of the phenomenality of empirical existence and hence of the Comprehensive nature of being, thus entering into the area of faith.
~ Karl Jaspers
For one wishing to philosophize, it is particular, indeed of crucial importance to ascertain the difference between the object cognition that which is achieved in the sciences and the transcending thought that characterizes philosophy......which transcend[s] the limits of the knowable and of the world as a whole, so that through these limits we become aware of the phenomenality of empirical existence and hence of the Comprehensive nature of being, thus entering into the area of faith.
~ Karl Jaspers
It's funny, isn't it, Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too.
~ Kate Atkinson
Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.
~ Joseph Addison
The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.
~ Martin Buber
I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes.
~ Rumi
The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity.
~ Sri Aurobindo
The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!
~ William Butler Yeats
If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
~ William Jennings Bryan
Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
~ Seneca the Younger
The day, man will find that he never really dies; that his Soul persists beyond death; he will have no more fear of death.
~ Swami Vivekananda
For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
By unswerving devotion to Me, a man crosses over three Gunas - I am the Abode of Brahman, Eternal and Immutable, of everlasting Dharma and Absolute Bliss.
~ Chinmayananda Saraswati
Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
~ Erich Fromm
There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.
~ Frank Herbert
Man is something that is to be surpassed.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche