“All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.” PeopleRealityPoliticalPoliticsSidesCommunityPartyMoralEnemyGenerationsHuman NatureMovementBecomingEthicsAbsolutesStrategyUnityTerrorConvictionIdeologyTeaVotingDisagreeFree SpeechSuperiorityPolitical PartiesFlexibilityCivilityDisobedienceTea PartyCivil DisobedienceHereticPartisanshipThird PartiesPolitical MovementsOversimplificationMoral Superiority Author:Doris Lessing
“Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory.” HardLyingCoursesAttitudeTheoryAbsolutesFollowingPhysicsHardestIdeologyConspiracyOriginalityProbabilityJuryConspiracy TheoryVerdictScience Physics Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“When I came overseas, I realized that there are many ideologies and many trends, and it's also very hard to produce honest art and honest literature. I decided that I didn't want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because that's also a kind of pressure that doesn't allow absolute freedom. So I decided that I was only going to produce works that were satisfactory to me, and that meant not following any trends and being anti-ideological.” WantKindArtHardLiteratureHonestProduceDecidedAbsolutesPressureFollowingI RealizedIdeologyTrendsIdeologicalAbsolute Freedom Author:Gao Xingjian
“I decided that I did not want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because these also exerted a kind of pressure, and obstructed absolute creative freedom.” WantKindCreativeDecidedAbsolutesPressureIdeologyTrendsCreative Freedom Author:Gao Xingjian
“An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it; it leads the thinker to accomplish an act of self-deception for the purpose of justification, obfuscation and evasion in some sense or other to his advantage.” WorldIdeasSelfPurposeSituationAtheismAdvantageAbsolutesComplexesNotionAccomplishPositive AtheismIdeologyDeceptionInterpretationThinkerJustificationSelf DeceptionAbsolute TruthEvasionObfuscation Author:Karl Jaspers
“In Buddhist ideology, the conventional self is that which is constructed in a way by the use of the pronoun, and when you realize there is no absolute ego there, no disconnected one, self, or ego, then that actually strengthens your conventional ego. It does so in the sense that then you realize it's a construction, and you can strengthen it in order to help others, or do whatever you're trying to do, it's not like you no longer know who you are. Then you can organize your behavior by using your ego, as it's now the pronoun.” KnowsWayTryingDoeSelfHelpingUseOrderRealizingLike YouEgoBehaviorAbsolutesWho You AreHelping OthersIdeologyBuddhistConstructionConventionalOrganizeDisconnectedPronouns Author:Robert Thurman
“In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an absolute that is called heaven, freedom, a miracle, a lost paradise to be regained, peace, the going beyond History... There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.... Humanity has always had a nostalgia for the freedom that is only beauty, that is only real; life, plenitude, light.” ThinkingWayNeedsDoeRealPhilosophyLightLife IsHumanityCultureLostHeavenFailingCivilizationThousandMiracleAbsolutesPrisonEverydayNostalgiaReal LifeIdeologyParadiseManifestEveryday LifeAlienationPlenitude Author:Eugene Ionesco
“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.” MeanGodTruthSpiritualityTheoryAbsolutesBoundsDoctrineIdeologyBuddhistInterfaithAbsolute TruthInterbeing 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
“We have had philosophies, we have ideologies, we have so many kinds of enterprises but despite that there are so many differences and the differences are having larger and larger gaps. If it is the truth, it has to be the truth for everyone. Everyone has to say: "This is The Truth". But it has to be the Absolute Truth. If it is not the Absolute Truth than what we believe into is not the reality. And this is the main reason why everything in the name of God, Divinity, everything has failed so far because it is not substantiated by reality.” IfsLoveBelieveKindReasonPhilosophyWisdomRealitySpiritNamesDifferencesMeditationYogaAbsolutesDespiteIdeologyReason WhyWellnessEnterpriseDivinityGapsAbsolute Truth Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He does not want to give you an ideology, because every ideology creates its own slavery.” WantGivingDoeSoulFreedomMessagesAbsolutesFundamentalsSlaveryIdeologyUnconditional Author:Rajneesh
“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
“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.” GivingTryingArtAnswersDoubtAuthorityAbsolutesDoctrineCelebrateIdeologyUncertaintyInterpretationProvokingParasitesDogmatismIncorporating Author:Sherrie Levine
“An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West with its ideology of liberalism is an absolute evil.” ImportantEvilOpinionCivilizationAspectAbsolutesWestWesternIdeologyDenialLiberalismWorldviewWestern Civilization Author:Aleksandr Dugin