“It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating for people seeking absolute faith, but for me it gives religion an ambidextrous quality that suits my temperament.” PeopleGivingHandsCultureSidesQualityAbsolutesSeekingSuitsFrustratingTemperamentAmbidextrous Book:The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey Between Worlds Source: The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey Between Worlds
“And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out of which the divine machinery developed, I return that truth is just the reverse, that the presence of voices which had to be obeyed were the absolute prerequisite to the conscious stage of mind in which it is the self that is responsible and can debate within itself, can order and direct, and that the creation of such a self is the product of culture. In a sense, we have become our own gods.” MindSelfFeelingsOrderCultureVoiceLossStageCreationDivineProductsReturnTruth IsConsciousDirectAbsolutesResponsibleDebateJudgementReverseInwardMachineryGermsPrerequisites Author:Julian Jaynes
“So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic.” ThinkingKnowsSelfCultureLevelsEconomyIssuesSelf ImprovementAbsolutesInnovationImprovementFantasticOutput Author:Steve Ballmer
“In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe.” DiesCultureSpaceActingAirHavensFieldsJudgingListeningTasksEternityAbsolutesInfiniteForgivingDuesBreathePlanningFiniteContingencyOpen Spaces Author:Eugen Drewermann
“In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.” ThinkingYoungChoicesCultureBlackDarkWhiteNovelReaderAdultsAbsolutesYoung AdultDefinedGrayShadeSatisfyingBlack And WhiteShades Of Gray Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to deny his ownlife until the present moment, indeed in advance until the last moment, as worthless. He who realizes that culture is the giving of form will also see that the highest forms that it is given to the human spirit to recognize have always been, psychologically considered, such evasions from the present. Considerations such as these do not at all square with the direction of America's mind.” GivingMindHumansMomentsLastsAmericaPastFormSpiritValuesCultureGivenWishRealizingHistoryMankindReadyHighestAbsolutesDenyConsiderationPresent MomentSquaresWorthlessHuman SpiritValue Of LifeEvasion Author:Johan Huizinga
“Without a thorough and deeply rooted understanding of the biblical view of truth as revealed, objective, absolute, universal, eternally engaging, antithetical and exclusive, unified and systematic, and as an end in itself, the Christian response to postmodernism will be muted by the surrounding culture or will make illicit compromises with the truth-impoverished spirit of the age. The good news is that truth is still truth, that it provides a backbone for witness and ministry in postmodern times, and that God's truth will never fail.” StillsEndsAgeChristianSpiritCultureUnderstandingViewsFailingTruth IsNewsUniversalAbsolutesResponseObjectivesCompromiseWitnessRootedMinistryBiblicalEngagingGood NewsExclusiveSystematicThoroughBackboneUnifiedPostmodernismPostmodern Author:Douglas Groothuis
“Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.” MenShouldWellsWarSelfStatesHandsCultureBornPerfectHe ManSpeechSeasonsAbsolutesDancingDareReputationWell BeingWeedIndividualismBehaviourThunderCommonwealthAbsolute TruthDefyingRectitude Book:Emerson's Essays: Top Essays Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays