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“There is an appearance of humility in the protestation that the truth is much greater than any one of us can grasp, but if this is used to invalidate all claims to discern the truth it is in fact an arrogant claim to a kind of knowledge which is superior to [all others]...We have to ask: 'What is the [absolute] vantage ground from which you claim to be able to relativize all the absolute claims these different scriptures make?”

Ifs Kind Different Facts Able Used Asks Greater Humility Truth Is Claims Absolutes Appearance Scripture Superiors Arrogant

Book:The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic

Source: The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic

“With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by animals, by matter, by the elements, so that everything is performed in the universe by violence. And that order which we blame with some appearance of justice is the most universal, most absolute, most unchangeable, and most ancient law of nature.”

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.”

Objects Ambition Absolutes Appearance Impossibility

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.”

Way Reality Absolutes Appearance

Author:Dalai Lama

“The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.”

Kind Chance Destiny Stage Mark Absolutes Appearance Encounters Transition Declaration Fright Contingency Stage Fright Declarations Of Love

Author:Alain Badiou