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“A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself, and I grant to every other human being, not the right because it is his right but instead of granting I declare that it is his right, to attack every doctrine that I maintain, to answer every argument that I may urge in other words, he must have absolute freedom of speech.”

Giving Humans May Human Beings Answers Liberty Speech Argument Claims Absolutes Believer Doctrine Urges Grants Freedom Of Speech Absolute Freedom

Book:Miscellany

Source: Miscellany

“All mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this by claiming that the ultimate and absolute truth is already embodied in their doctrine and that there is no truth nor certitude outside it. The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.”

Source: The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition]

“While theoretically a person may block God out, logically there will be a breakdown because ultimately all enunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind. And if that moral doctrine is not absolute then the definer himself becomes undefined. That's what we are living with - an undefined definer giving us definitions for our course, and we are being trapped in the quicksand of the absence of objective truth.”

Ifs Giving Kind May Persons Courses Moral Absolutes Definitions Absence Doctrine Objectives Block Trapped Breakdown Quicksand Objective Truth Undefined

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“Scripture is our norming norm and tradition is our normed norm and that in a doctrinal controversy Scripture alone has absolute veto power while The Great Tradition (orthodox doctrine) has a vote but not a veto.”

Tradition Vote Absolutes Scripture Doctrine Orthodox Norm Controversy Veto

Author:Roger E. Olson

“As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.”

Political Attitude Fields Absolutes Regard Doctrine Opposition Fascism

Author:Benito Mussolini

“A conflict arises when a religious community insists on the absolute truthfulness of all statements recorded in the Bible. This means an intervention on the part of religion into the sphere of science; this is where the struggle of the Church against doctrines of Galileo and Darwin belongs.”

Mean Community Church Religious Struggle Conflict Absolutes Arise Statements Doctrine Spheres Science And Religion Intervention Truthfulness Absolute Truth Science Religion Religious Community Religious Conflict

Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“The Bible is not considered an accurate, absolute, authoritative, or authoritarian source but a book to be experienced and one experience can be as valid as any other can. Experience, dialogue, feelings, and conversations are equated with Scripture while certitude, authority, and doctrine are to be eschewed! No doctrines are to be absolute and truth or doctrine must be considered only with personal experiences, traditions, historical leaders, etc. The Bible is not an answer book.”

Book Feelings Answers Leader Source Conversation Authority Tradition Absolutes Historical Scripture Doctrine Dialogue Etc Accurate Personal Experiences Certitude

Author:Brian D. McLaren

“The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.”

States Individual Groups Essence Function Absolutes Aim Doctrine Conception Relative Fascism Fascists Keystones

Author:Benito Mussolini

“The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one's peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad.”

People Ifs Mean Persons Problem Political Attention Draws Logic Mark Absolutes Doctrine Manners Awkward Peril Political Correctness Correctness Reactionaries Offence

Author:Lynne Truss

“There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.”

Should Long Doe Book Ideas Desire Perfect Boys Taught Truth Is My Friends Perfection Absolutes Doctrine Within You Dogma Deities My Boys

Book:The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel

Source: The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel

“The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this planet demands that while the upholders of any creed are free to adopt their own existential absolutes, the right of others to do the same is thereby rendered implicit and sacrosanct. Thus the creed of inquiry, of knowledge and exchange of ideas, must be upheld as an absolute, as ancient and eternal as any other.”

World Ideas Planets Demand Eternal Absolutes Ancient Doctrine Pursue Peaceful Our World Nerves Arrogant Creeds Existential Inquiry Elimination Implicit Cohabitation

Author:Wole Soyinka

“The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.”

Seems History Events Absolutes Doctrine Nonsense Uniqueness Events In History

Author:Crane Brinton

“Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.”

Mean God Truth Spirituality Theory Absolutes Bounds Doctrine Ideology Buddhist Interfaith Absolute Truth Interbeing

Book:Thundering Silence: Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Catch a Snake

Source: Thundering Silence: Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Catch a Snake

“I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute.”

Firsts War Peace Lord Violence Divine Absolutes Doctrine Followers Anti War Antiwar Non Violence Steadfast Divine Wisdom Lord Buddha

Author:Dalai Lama

“Dhyan means meditation. Meditation means awareness, watchfulness, a silent witnessing of all the processes of the mind. And the magic of watching is that as your watchfulness deepens, the mind starts evaporating. When the watchfulness is absolute mind becomes nil, a zero. And the disappearance of the mind gives you clarity, absolute clarity, transparency; you can see through and through, you become a mirror. And then life is reflected as it is - not according to any doctrine, not according to the Bible or the Koran or the Gita but as it is. And to know life as it is, is to know god.”

Knows Giving Mind Mean Life Is Process Meditation Magic Awareness Absolutes Mirrors Silent Doctrine Clarity Zero Knowing God Transparency Disappearance Gita Watchfulness

Author:Rajneesh

“I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty. Which provokes answers but doesn't give them. Which withholds absolute meaning by incorporating parasite meanings. Which suspends meaning while perpetually dispatching you toward interpretation, urging you beyond dogmatism, beyond doctrine, beyond ideology, beyond authority.”

Giving Trying Art Answers Doubt Authority Absolutes Doctrine Celebrate Ideology Uncertainty Interpretation Provoking Parasites Dogmatism Incorporating

Author:Sherrie Levine

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