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“In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleeting aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.”

Ifs Self Use Law Universe Names Conditions Awareness Activity Absolutes Labels Temporary Infinity Laws Of Nature Unchanging Inexorable Short Lived Withering Ephemera

Author:Frank Herbert

“In short, absolute, so-called mathematical, factors never find a firm basis in military calculations. From the very start, there is an interplay of possibilities, probabilities, good luck and bad, that weaves its way throughout the length and breadth of the tapestry. In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.”

“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”

Men Life Reason Philosophy Purpose Moral Activity Achievement Concepts Essence Absolutes Productive Heroic Objectivism

Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvelous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man.”

Source: Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles Darwin

“Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of mastery of the world, it has an infinite number of facets, the vincula that connect man with his vital activity; and even if the path towards knowledge is unending, no step that takes man nearer to a full understanding of the meaning of his existence can be too small to count.”

Ifs Men World Age Law Understanding Numbers Existence Steps Path Subjects Creation Activity Absolutes Infinite Aim Artistic Related Mastery Facets Unending Artistic Creation

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities.”

Art Said Spiritual Universe Activity Absolutes Symbols Linked Pragmatic Spiritual Truth

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“When all mental activity around who you think you are or what you need for happiness is stopped, there is a crack in the authority of perception, in the structure of the mind. I invite you to enter through that crack. Come in through that opening. When you do, the mind is no longer filled with its latest self-definition. In that moment, there is only silence. And in that silence, it is possible to recognize absolute fulfilment: the truth of who you are.”

Thinking Mind Self Moments Wisdom Spiritual Silence Activity Authority Perception Absolutes Filled Structure Who You Are Definitions Opening That Moment Cracks Invites Fulfilment

Author:Gangaji