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“The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself.”

Said Ends Whole Truth Results Subjects Development Becoming Essence Absolutes Spontaneous

Book:Phenomenology of Spirit

Source: Phenomenology of Spirit

“Dissonance between family and school, therefore, is not only inevitable in a changing society; it also helps to make children moremalleable and responsive to a changing world. By the same token, one could say that absolute homogeneity between family and school would reflect a static, authoritarian society and discourage creative, adaptive development in children.”

World Children Helping School Creative Development Absolutes Inevitable Discouraging Static Tokens Dissonance Adaptive Homogeneity

Book:Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools

Source: Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools

“There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.”

Soul Body Growth Development Birth Absolutes Separation Strict Development And Growth

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. I'm not contending in a dogmatic way that there is not a God. What I'm contending is that we don't know that there is. I don't like the word "absolute." I don't think there is anything absolute whatever. The moral law, for example, is always changing. At one period in the development of the human race, almost everybody thought cannibalism was a duty.”

Thinking Knows Men Way Humans Facts Law Belief Race Moral Effects Example Duty Development Periods Evidence Absolutes Favors Human Race Dogmatic Moral Law Cannibalism Contending Good Moral

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Royce is the father of the thesis that German idealism is a story about the discovery and development of the Kantian transcendental ego - the "I" that accompanies all my representations - as an absolute cosmic supersubject who, god-like, creates the entire universe.”

Stories Universe Father Development Ego Discovery Absolutes Cosmic Representation Idealism Accompany Transcendental Thesis

Author:Frederick C. Beiser

“A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?”

Doe Sex Development Absolutes Geometry Topology

Author:Jacques Lacan

“In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.”

Believe Belief Grows Our Lives Development Absolutes Structure Complicated Assumption Absolute Truth

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion].”

Source: An Abridgement of the Secret Doctrine

“In this office we do not have problems. We have interesting developments. We have challenges. If we absolute must we may, on occasion, have a slight difficulty. But under no circumstances whatsoever do we have problems.”

Ifs May Problem Challenges Interesting Development Circumstances Office Difficulty Absolutes Occasions

Author:Karen Miller

“Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.”

Humans Wells Values Social Justice Democracy Economic Development Dignity Absolutes Social Justice Human Rights Human Dignity Economic Development

Book:The 21st century and the Korean people: selected speeches of Kim Dae-jung, 1998-2004

Source: The 21st century and the Korean people: selected speeches of Kim Dae-jung, 1998-2004

“To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life as his own. He accepts as being good: to preserve life, to raise to its highest value life which is capable of development; and as being evil: to destroy life, to injure life, to repress life which is capable of development. This is the absolute, fundamental principle of the moral, and it is a necessity of thought.”