“He who knows does not feel wonder. It could not be said that God experiences wonder, for God knows in the most absolute and perfect way.” KnowsWayFeelsDoeSaidPerfectWonderAbsolutesGod Knows Author:Josef Pieper
“We want to see the universe in its absolute, pure, naked, perfection. We want to know its wonder. We want to know the totality of ourselves. That's done in steps and degrees and not in one day.” KnowsWantDoneUniverseWonderStepsOne DayPureDegreesPerfectionAbsolutesNakedMysticismTotality Author:Frederick Lenz
“The closer we are to God, to divine attributes - such as absolute truth, goodness, and beauty - the more we wonder. When we separate ourselves from truth, goodness, and beauty, we lose wonder and become cynical. The Enlightenment was basically the narrowing of our vision to a purely scientific, empirical, rationalistic worldview, screwing down the manhole covers on us so we became squinting underground creatures.” LosesWonderVisionDivineCreaturesGoodnessEnlightenmentAbsolutesAttributesCynicalWorldviewAbsolute TruthSquinting Author:Peter Kreeft
“Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of our work as much as they detest most of our politics. Instead of rationally debating subjects like abortion or gay rights, they condemn as immoral those who favor choice and tolerance. They disown their own dark side and magnify everyone else's until, at the extreme, doctors are murdered in the name of protecting life. I wonder, who is this God they invoke, who is so petty and mean? Is God really against gun control and food stamps for poor children?” MeanChildrenArtistChoicesNamesSidesDarkPoorWonderRolesRightsSubjectsGayAuthorityGunDoctorsAbsolutesExtremesFavorsToleranceAbortionGun ControlStampsImmoralPettyControversialDark SideGay RightsInvokeDetestFood StampsPoor Children Author:Barbra Streisand
“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
“Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.” WorldGivingEndsTogetherRememberEnergyFeltWonderTearsOffersBedDepressionSittingAbsolutesRageIndifferenceDryIncapablePillsCollectingChokeMuch LoveSummoning Author:Stephen Fry
“I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each of us was living in absolute isolation. The thought terrified me. I was consoled by the idea that I could take that gelatin and mold it to create anything I wanted...At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.” IfsIdeasRealityWantedUniverseFeltImaginationHalfWonderBloodCreaturesAbsolutesStrongerFleshSensesSubstanceRealmsIsolationLastingTerrifiedMoldCapturedFlesh And BloodGelatin Author:Isabel Allende
“There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merry-go-round, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved.” IfsKnowsPersonsSaidFacesWonderSceneAbsolutesRoundsOriginalityMerryMerry Go RoundWonder Love Author:Clive Barker
“The one thing I have absolute faith in is mankind's capacity to make things worse. No matter how bad it gets, we're all happy to screw each other over. It's enough to make me wonder if we should have let the zombies win.” IfsShouldMatterEnoughWinningWonderOne ThingMankindCapacityShould HaveAbsolutesOver ItScrewsZombie Author:Mira Grant
“Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity and morality and the vicissitudes of nature. Our genes govern us much more than we'd like to think. Our bodies can not know absolute freedom but our minds can, can at least try.” ThinkingKnowsTryingMindSaidStatesBodyWonderHeardMoralityAbsolutesSlaveState Of MindGenesGravityCan NotVicissitudesAbsolute Freedom Author:Walter Mosley
“If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.” IfsMenEnoughDreamWaterImaginationLossSilenceWonderFantasyForeverCapacityWeakAbsolutesTiredAncientPerceiveSufficientAbandonMarvelousConsole Book:Desert Solitaire Source: Desert Solitaire