Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Dejan Stojanovic

Quote by Dejan Stojanovic

“Who is the first rebel, the first warrior, the first sinner? Who disturbed the first and universal peace of the Absolute? God himself. Who pays the price of the original sin of God himself, not Adam’s sin? The world itself. The Devil is all we don’t recognize in ourselves. God is all we don’t understand. But what we don’t understand, we ascribe to the Devil. Evil is what we don’t recognize, and what we don’t recognize, we don’t understand. If God is the Creator, his only legitimate son is the World (Christ can only be a grandson, among myriad others in the Universe). But God and the World are the same. Since God is the World, through the World, God creates and recreates himself—the God-World.”

Quote by Dejan Stojanovic

Book:ABSOLUTE
Create image

Work

ABSOLUTE

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Dejan Stojanovic
Dejan Stojanovic

Dejan Stojanovic, born on March 11, 1959, is a Serbian poet known for his profound emotions and unique style in his poetry, which has won the hearts of readers worldwide. more

You May Also Like

“Existence is the noblest task for the noblest being. There is no real existence without real life. Real life is impossible in absolute comfort and perfection. Absolute perfection and comfort in real life, or of real life, would undermine its value. The value of life is manifested, among other things, through the efforts of every single being in a universal scheme of things. Without effort and action, there would be no real beauty, and even if there were real beauty, this beauty would be less beautiful because we would take it for granted; it would be too easy and, therefore, less enjoyable.”

GodUniverseDevilCosmosDejan StojanovicAbsoluteUniversal MindHigher Beings
Book:ABSOLUTE
Create image

“The highest beauty is life itself. The measure of life is not suffering but existing. The purpose of existence is life. The measure of existing is not absolute comfort but absolute strife for absolute beauty, absolute perfection. The hardship of life, even innumerable suffering, is proof of life as it is and not as it should be, according to us. We can only dream of producing a more perfect existence, a more perfect life, a more perfect eye or jaw, but we are incapable of making life. In this sense, we are incapable of judging, in absolute terms, what good or bad design is, and we are incapable of escaping a given reality, which we may improve and approve of but in no way disprove.”

GodUniverseDevilCosmosDejan StojanovicAbsoluteUniversal Mind
Book:ABSOLUTE
Create image

“Even if we create a better human eye (biologically), a better leg, a better heart, and a better jaw, this will prove nothing except our drive to continue and improve ourselves and live within the given frame. An idea of creation in terms of fundamental creation of what we see as the Universe (or anything in it) will always be beyond human reach. Whatever we create can only be the modification or mutation of whatever exists. We can explore our potential for novelty within scientific discoveries and arts and not in the realm of primordial original creation beyond human comprehension and reach.”

GodUniverseDevilCosmosDejan StojanovicAbsoluteUniversal Mind
Book:ABSOLUTE
Create image

“The logical question would follow: Is the purpose of reality an illusion? Or: What would it be if it were not an illusion? Before answering these questions, we would have to define reality and illusion in the best possible way. What is reality? What is illusion? Why can reality not be an illusion to be reality? Would the world be better if everything was literal in an obvious sense? We have to understand that the significant part of reality is its mystery. When reality becomes too real or evident on every level, without mystery, reality loses its purpose and becomes, perhaps, worse than an illusion in our usual sense of the word.”

UniverseExistenceCosmosDejan StojanovicAbsoluteUniversal MindNonexistence
Book:ABSOLUTE
Create image

“We gradually arrive at the ethical question of better or worse, which must imply which reality is better or worse. Since this automatically becomes an ethical dilemma, it creates an aesthetic dilemma: Which reality is more beautiful? Or, must all reality, irrespective of all its potential and possible variations, unavoidably comply with or conform to some principle of beauty—the Law of Beauty—which must be the basis of harmony if reality inclines toward a comprehensible and intelligible form, order, and purpose.”

LifeUniverseExistenceCosmosDejan StojanovicAbsoluteNonexistence
Book:ABSOLUTE
Create image

“Everything that exists is not aware of its existence. Still, everything that exists is a product of some kind of idea (information, thought). Thinking does not equate to the whole existence but only to the existence of the thinking beings. Nonetheless, non-thinking beings still exist. Lack of thinking does not equate to non-existence. All beings—thinking and non-thinking—exist.”

LifeUniverseExistenceCosmosDejan StojanovicAbsolute
Book:ABSOLUTE
Create image

“The whole purpose of the Absolute is contained much more in the meaning of existence than in the existence itself, regardless of meaning. The meaning and purpose of existence is the experience of life. Therefore, we cannot apodictically state, as Schopenhauer, that the driving force of the whole Universe is the will (or energy) per any cost but rather the meaning. Not everything is aware of its existence and life, but it serves life as a whole.”

LifeGodUniverseExistenceCosmosDejan StojanovicAbsolute
Book:ABSOLUTE
Create image

“Existence, devoid of meaning, is meaningless. Meaning is the ultimate goal of both Absolute and existence. However, meaning, although priceless, is not without a price. If the world had no “price,” it would have no meaning. We need some hardship to find meaning in anything. Even when we talk about beauty, we must “earn” it. Only nonexistence is unconditional. Life and existence are conditional and contingent.”

LifeUniverseExistenceCosmosDejan StojanovicAbsoluteUniversal MindNonexistence
Book:ABSOLUTE
Create image

“Nonexistence equates with death in a way. But, for death, something must be born to be able to die. Non-existence excludes both birth and death. On the other hand, everything that does exist is programmed or destined to motion. Without some movement or growth through space and time, there is no actual existence, but rather the non-existence camouflaged in the robe of “non-existing” existence, which was only a dead existence at the same spot forever, without motion, without time, without birth or real death, which equates non-existence.”

LifeTruthUniverseExistenceCosmosDejan StojanovicAbsoluteUniversal MindNonexistence
Book:ABSOLUTE
Create image

“Existence is in constant motion and growth (regardless of progress or regress), moving through time and space (including entropy) with all its other attributes. Only something alive can contain and reflect these attributes. Existence, in and of itself, is life itself. The ability and capacity to think do not equate to the wholeness of life. Still, life itself equates to existence as a whole, including the existence of inorganic matter or something we are used to calling “dead matter.” Everything that exists, regardless of our conception of it and how it appears to us, is alive. Existence is life.”

LifeTruthUniverseExistenceCosmosDejan StojanovicAbsoluteNonexistence
Book:ABSOLUTE
Create image