“The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.” HumansIdeasRealBeliefGrowingPersonalityHigherIdealsEternityAbsolutesRaisesDevelopingThirstSuperhumanCoherence Author:Christian Lous Lange
“It would convert the Treasury of the United States into a manufactory of paper money. It makes the House of Representatives and the Senate, or the caucus of the party which happens to be in the majority, the absolute dictator of the financial and business affairs of this country. This scheme surpasses all the centralism and all the Caesarism that were ever charged upon the Republican party in the wildest days of the war or in the events growing out of the war.” WarCountryStatesHappensHouseUnitedPartyUnited StatesGrowingEventsRepublicanPaperAbsolutesMajorityAffairFinancialSenateRepresentativesDictatorSchemesRepublican PartyTreasuryHouse Of RepresentativesCaucusPaper Money Author:James A. Garfield
“Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.” MightGrowingAbsolutesSeedsSpots Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“My absolute favorite growing up was Super Friends. The assemblage of so many mighty heroes in one place was, to me, mind-blowing. It was Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and then sometimes Hawkman and some other, lesser heroes.” MindSometimesWonderGrowing UpGrowingHeroAbsolutesFlashMind BlowingWonder WomanAssemblageBlowing It Author:Michael Ian Black
“The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.” IdeasPhilosophyWholeFormLawForceNaturalFreedomBehindsLibertyVirtueGrowingCrimePersonalityAbsolutesAcceptedPropagandaCustomsConformityProhibitionPlatitudesNatural Philosophy Author:H. L. Mencken
“Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality.” IfsRealityHateFallPassionGrowsGrowingFlowerRegretAbsolutesAttractionWeedManifestDon't HateDon't RegretRepulsionAttraction And Repulsion Book:Flowers Fall: A Commentary on Dōgen's Genjōkōan Source: Flowers Fall: A Commentary on Dōgen's Genjōkōan
“While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation. Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control.” StatesFormPoliticsResultsCommonGrowingExerciseCapitalismAbsolutesMajorityFinancialProsperityIdeologyEnjoyedMinoritiesRejectsGapsEarningAutonomySpeculationMarketplaceCommon GoodVigilanceSeparatingImbalance Book:The Joy of the Gospel Source: The Joy of the Gospel