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“The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other into consideration, it's not uncommon for ecologists to spout absolute nonsense about economics, and vice versa.”

Thinking Way Two Intellectual Economics Absolutes Vices Nonsense Consideration Isolated Ecology Vice Versa Uncommon

Author:Charles C. Mann

“I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life.”

Feelings Freedom Intellectual Absolutes Affection Nerves Wire American Life Intellectual Freedom

Author:Norman Mailer

“Disgust is expressed by violence, and it is to be noted of our intellectual temper that violence is a quality which is felt to have a peculiarly intellectual sanction. Our preference, even as articulated by those who are most mild in their persons, is increasingly for the absolute and extreme, of which we feel violence to be the true sign. The gentlest of us will know that the tigers of wrath are to be preferred to the horses of instruction and will consider it intellectual cowardice to take into account what happens to those who ride tigers.”

Knows Feels Persons Happens Felt Quality Violence Intellectual Accounts Horse Absolutes Extremes Temper Instruction Cowardice Disgusting Tigers Preference Wrath Sanctions

Author:Lionel Trilling

“Awakening is waking up from the daytime dream and realizing that who you thought you were is not limited to thought, emotion or form. Beyond the imaginary seeker, beyond concepts and beliefs, there is a field of innocence and purity. We are this deep peace and sacredness, which is absolute and beyond all intellectual understanding. I invite you to recognize this Essence of Being and to directly realize the illusion of all psychological suffering due to misidentification, misperception of separation and attachment to conditioned thought.”

“You can't relate to an absolute or it wouldn't be absolute, it would be relative. On an intellectual level, that's easy. However, you hear theologians in the theistic traditions talk about absolute God, and I saw God, or God spoke; speaking, being seen, these are all relational things. So what is absolute about such a being, wouldn't actually be absolute.”

Would Be Easy Levels Saws Intellectual Tradition Absolutes Relate Spokes Relative Theologian

Author:Robert Thurman

“The absolute as the idea is neither subjective nor objective; it is the intellectual structure under which they are subsumed.”

Ideas Intellectual Absolutes Structure Objectives Subjective

Author:Frederick C. Beiser

“Most of the intellectual elite of the USA completely disavow the idea of absolute truth.”

Ideas Intellectual Absolutes Usa Elites Absolute Truth

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!”

Ifs Knows Kind Mean Ideas Form Song Sound Know How Discipline Intellectual Absolutes Abandon Chaotic

Author:John Lydon

“In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the Absolute of the metaphysicians remains a diagram —impersonal and unattainable—the Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive.”

Source: Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness

“We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if we bother to put the right dots and squiggles between the words in the right places. Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is unimaginable.”

“Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.”

Thinking Believe Humans Desire Belief Clear Conditions Pride Intellectual Logic Absolutes Human Condition Renounce Omnipotence Absolute Power Clear Thinking Intellectual Pride

Author:Alexis Carrel

“Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute faith in the validity of a principle which is as much ethical as intellectual.”

Kind Principles Intellectual Negative Absolutes Ethical Creeds Agnosticism Validity

Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

“The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a form of the soul's quest for God. Whether or not the goal is ever reached, an awareness of the process brings enlightenment.”

Source: Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite

“It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.”

Persons Difficult Loss Intellectual Absolutes Misery Workers Destroyed Organs Penalties Multitudes Nuisance Grinder

Book:A Chapter on Street Nuisances. [Extracted from

Source: A Chapter on Street Nuisances. [Extracted from