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“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

“What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me - that I understand. And these two certainties - my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle - I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my conditions?”

“To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your “Core Attachments,” means apologizing for your very existence.”

Mean Existence Absolutes Core Attachment Apologizing Sandy Pinter

Book:Up in the Air: A Novel

Source: Up in the Air: A Novel

“Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.”

Men Humans Mean Ends Use Purpose Human Beings Crime Diversity Respect Ethics Dignity Absolutes Mere Every Man Self Respect

Author:Immanuel Kant

“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

“Now by knowing absolute truth you understand each other much more. That means a collective consciousness, a new dimension in your awareness. You can feel others on your finger tips and if you know how to correct your centers you can help them. Then who is the other? The microcosm becomes the macrocosm.”

“Our self (Soul) is maya (an illusion) where it is merely individual and finite, where it considers its separateness as absolute; it is satyam (truth) where it recognizes its essence in the universal and infinite, in the Supreme Self, in paramatman (God). This is what Christ means when he says, "Before Abraham was, I am" (i.e. before Abraham was God, who is the same that is in my soul - I am That.)”

Mean Soul Self God Spirituality Individual Christ Illusion Essence Universal Absolutes Infinite Supreme My Soul Finite Abraham Separateness

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.”

Heart Mean Self Principles Sacrifice Absolutes Loyalty Loyal Self Sacrifice

Book:Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

“Listening is totally different from hearing. Hearing, anybody who is not deaf can do. Listening is a rare art, one of the last arts. Listening means not only hearing with the ears but hearing from the heart, in utter silence, in absolute peace, with no resistance. One has to be vulnerable to listen, and one has to be in deep love to listen. One has to be in utter surrender to listen.”

Heart Mean Art Different Lasts Can Do Silence Listening Ears Absolutes Hearing Surrender Resistance Vulnerable Deaf Deep Love

Author:Rajneesh

“Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time is any sensible and external measure (precise or imprecise) of duration by means of motion; such as a measure-for example, an hour, a day, a month, a year-is commonly used instead of true time.”

Years Mean Science Used Time Names Hours Common Example Months Flow Absolutes Mathematical Relative Sensible Precise Measurement Duration

Book:Newton: Philosophical Writings

Source: Newton: Philosophical Writings

“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

“Meditation means you don't have anything, any object to think about. You are just in a state of absolute aloneness. You don't have anything on which you can focus yourself - not a sutra, not a mantra, not any great value of life, just pure space all around you. Then you are in meditation. Meditation is never about something. Meditation is a state.”

Thinking Mean States Values Space Focus Meditation Objects Pure Absolutes Mantras Value Of Life Great Value

Author:Rajneesh

“Meditation is the key to open the door, the door of absolute contentment. Mind is always discontented., hence meditation means creating a state of no-mind. That space is always contented.”

Mind Mean States Space Meditation Doors Keys Creating Absolutes Contentment

Author:Rajneesh

“Contentment is the door to god. If one is contented, one has already arrived. And the meaning of contentment is absolute acceptance as you are. Contentment means acceptance, discontentment means non-acceptance. A wants to become B - that is discontent. A is perfectly happy in being A, there is no desire to become B - that is contentment.”

Ifs Want Mean Desire Doors Acceptance Absolutes Contentment Discontent Discontentment

Author:Rajneesh

“In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself to the study of their laws - that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance. Reasoning and observation, duly combined, are the means of this knowledge. What is now understood when we speak of an explanation of facts is simply the establishment of a connection between single phenomena and some general facts.”

“Prayer is that which enables the soul to realize its divinity. Through prayer human beings worship absolute truth, and seek an eternal reward. Prayer is the foundation-stone of religion; and religion is the means by which the soul is purified of all that pollutes it. Prayer is the worship of the first cause of all things, the supreme ruler of all the world, the source of all strength. Prayer is the adoration of the one whose being is necessary.”

“Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories like Chekhov wrote. That's why I rate that second - it's because it demands a nearer absolute exactitude. You have less room to be slovenly and careless. There's less room in it for trash.”

Mean Stories Next Rooms Novel Demand Absolutes Rate Crafts Short Story Trash Careless Chekhov Exactitude

Author:William Faulkner

“And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and their Governors shall be so weak or so wicked, as for the sake of keeping their places, to be made the instruments in putting them in execu tion, who will presume to say that the people have not a right, or that it is not their indispensible duty to God and their Country, by all rational means in their power to RESIST THEM.”

People Ifs Mean Made Country America Law Duty Weak Absolutes Instruments Sake Supreme Rational Ministers Wicked Instruction Governors Colony Duty To God

Author:Samuel Adams

“Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for oneself or for anyone else. That has been the old philosophical injunction since Plato: to be a philosopher is to learn how to die.”

Mean Has Beens Dies Accepting Ought Absolutes Philosophical Oneself Philosopher Redemption Acknowledge Outcomes Mortality Resurrection Plato Positive Outcome

Author:Jacques Derrida

“Anything I shouldn't laugh at makes me laugh. I mean, I'm bad at that, when somebody is singing something terribly and I'm thinking to myself, 'If I laugh now, this is the absolute worst thing I could ever do,' and then I start laughing and I can't stop.”

Ifs Thinking Mean I Can Laughing Worst Singing Absolutes Worst Things Make Me Laugh

Author:Simon Cowell

“The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless satisfies my only legitimate aspiration. Among all the many misfortunes to which we are heir, it is only fair to admit that we are allowed the greatest degree of freedom of thought. It is up to us not to misuse it. To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery-even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness-is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself.”

“Get rid of the guns. We had the Second Amendment that said you have the right to bear arms. I haven't seen the British really coming by my house looking for it. And besides, the right to bear arms is not an absolute right anyway, as New York's Sullivan Law proves. We talk about ourselves as a violent society, and some of that is right and some of it is claptrap. But I think if you took away the guns, and I mean really take away the guns, not what Congress is doing now, you would see that violent society diminish considerably.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Said Law House Havens New York Arms Bears Prove Gun Absolutes Congress British Violent Amendments Diminish Second Amendment Right To Bear Arms

Author:Roger Rosenblatt

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