“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
“So the dream is continually reminding us of the part which our conscious is forgetting. It does not speak with any absolute authority; it simply gives a true picture of a situation which exists in the unconscious. It speaks truth; but not, as some persons believe, the truth. It shows the other side.” GivingBelievePersonsDoeShowsDreamSpeakSidesForgetSituationAuthorityConsciousAbsolutesUnconsciousSpeak The TruthReminding Author:Frances G. Wickes
“Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.” WellsMatterEducationSituationKnowledgeLearningExerciseJudgmentEconomicsAbsolutesLearners Book:Risk, Uncertainty and Profit Source: Risk, Uncertainty and Profit
“But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.” NeedsBelieveStillsMatterPoliticalCertainMistakeSituationOpinionOne ThingSubjectsChangedCircumstancesStandardsAbsolutesDebateDependentCommandmentsPublic OpinionPollsFidelityPolitical CorrectnessChastityEver AfterCorrectnessRespectabilityAbsolutismOpinion PollsBefore Marriage Author:M. Russell Ballard
“One reason for the decline in moral values is that the world has invented a new, constantly changing and undependable standard of moral conduct referred to as "situational ethics." Now, individuals define good and evil as being adjustable according to each situation; this is in direct contrast to the proclaimed God-given absolute standard: "Thou shalt not!"-as in "Thou shalt not steal".” WorldReasonValuesEvilIndividualGivenSituationMoralStandardsEthicsDirectAbsolutesStealingGood And EvilContrastDeclineMoral ValuesAbsolutism Author:David B. Haight
“Rich white people show up in a poor country to pursue their leisure-time fun, get served by black and brown people, and live in relative - or absolute - comfort. In the water, that situation can get turned on its head, though. Local kids learn to surf, know the breaks, and take most or all of the best waves, fuming turistas be damned.” PeopleKnowsCountryShowsKidsFunBlackWaterWhitePoorSituationBreakRichComfortAbsolutesWaveLocalsPursueBrownRelativeLeisureSurfPoor CountriesLeisure Time Author:William Finnegan
“When the problems in Libya started, the African Union set up a committee to address the situation. We urgently advised the Europeans not to intervene. You have done so anyway. Now we are seeing absolute chaos there.” DoneProblemSituationSeeingAbsolutesUnionsChaosAddressesCommitteesLibyaAfrican Union Author:Yoweri Museveni
“Given certain known factors in an equation and the equation comprising a situation of absolute need - any form of need - you can predict the results. Leave a sick junkie in the back room of a drugstore and only one result is possible.” NeedsFormCertainGivenRoomsResultsSituationKnownSickAbsolutesFactorsEquationsNeed YouJunkie Author:William S. Burroughs
“Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it's direction you get in His Word or something He's specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.” HeartSituationAbsolutesBest ThingsSituations In Life Author:Joyce Meyer
“No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.” MenShouldDoneMightAsksCompassionSituationHonestyHumilityJudgingAbsolutesSearch For MeaningMans Search For Meaning Book:Man's Search for Meaning Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.” MenWorldWayRealEnoughPaySituationDarknessMagicCarAdventureBuiltRiversAbsolutesBlameCrushCharmIntensitySincerityIsolatedRuinedWhisperingReal MenHelenJuggernaut Book:Howards End: England Literature Source: Howards End: England Literature
“Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality “of closed eyes”, but one of “alertness”, one which entails an absolute duty to take notice of the needs of others and of situations involving those whom the Gospel tells us are our neighbours. The gaze of Jesus, what “his eyes” teach us, leads to human closeness, solidarity, giving time, sharing our gifts and even our material goods.” NeedsGivingHumansDoeEyeSpiritualityJesusChristSituationTeachMaterialsDutyJesus ChristAbsolutesNeighborHis EyesGoodsSolidarityInvolvingClosenessAlertnessNeeds Of OthersClosed EyesGiving Time Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“Any picture firmly held in any mind, in any form, is bound to come forth. That is the great, unchanging universal law that, when we cooperate with it intelligently, makes us absolute masters of the conditions and situations in our lives.” MindFormLawSituationOur LivesConditionsMastersUniversalAbsolutesBoundsUnchangingUniversal Laws Author:Roger McDonald