“We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.” MenDesireLostNaturalEmotionConcernRelationAbsolutesContactExalted Author:Barnett Newman
“It is right, or absolute right, that an individual should develop the powers that are in him. He may be said to have a "natural right" to become what he is capable of becoming. This is his only natural right.” ShouldMaySaidIndividualNaturalBecomingCapableAbsolutes Author:William Ernest Hocking
“The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.” HeartLawNaturalJusticeWrittenUniversalAbsolutesAppealsNatural Justice Author:Victor Cousin
“(Because) the notion of absolute truth is difficult to sustain outside the context of religion, ethical conduct is not something we engage in because it is somehow right in itself but because, like ourselves, all others desire to be happy and to avoid suffering. Given that this is a natural disposition, shared by all, it follows that each individual has a right to pursue this goal. Accordingly, I suggest that one of the things which determines whether an act is ethical or not is its effect on others' experience or expectation of happiness.” DesireSufferingIndividualGivenDifficultGoalNaturalEffectsTruth IsExpectationsEthicsAbsolutesNotionDeterminePursueEthicalDispositionAbsolute Truth Author:Dalai Lama
“Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural right.' It is a practical necessity of 'self-government by universal suffrage,' for if the citizens are not permitted to argue out the issues of government, how can they be what they must be in a democracy - the rulers as well as the ruled?” IfsWellsSelfGovernmentNaturalDemocracyIssuesAtheismPositionSourceCitizensSpeechUniversalAbsolutesArguingPracticalsRulersFree SpeechBoundlessSuffrageSelf-governmentUniversal Suffrage Author:Max Lerner
“... any woman who accepts aloneness as the natural by-product of success is accepting a punishment for a crime she didn't commit. And she is not acknowledging one of the most precious lessons of the women's movement, the lessons of community ... We may not able to tell women that there is safety in freedom. But we certainly can say, with absolute certainty, that for free women, the only safety is in numbers.” MayAbleCommunityNaturalNumbersAcceptingCrimeMovementProductsLessonsAbsolutesSafetyPunishmentCommitCertaintyAbsolute Certainty Author:Marlo Thomas
“Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute - and knowable? Or are you in an incomprehensible chaos, a realm of inexplicable miracles, an unpredictable, unknowable flux, which your mind is impotent to grasp? The nature of your actions - and of your ambition - will be different, according to which set of answers you come to accept.” MindDifferentActionLawReligionUniverseNaturalAnswersAcceptingAmbitionMiracleAbsolutesChaosFirmRealmsStableUnpredictableNatural LawInexplicableFlux Book:Philosophy: Who Needs It Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It
“Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.” LoveShouldSelfGodWisdomHandsChristianLawFaithBeliefLeftNaturalReligiousChanceLordPowerFateUnderstoodAnd LoveUniversalAbsolutesInfiniteBlindAffairChristian InspirationalDoctrineAlternativesRejectionHolinessRejectsTrust In GodConsideringSovereigntyTheologianComfortingCommitment To GodNatural LawReassuringMighty GodGod Is In ControlIrrevocableShort SightedSovereignty Of GodInfinite Power Book:The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition] Source: The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition]
“I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman.” WantArtTermNaturalLinesEmotionHavensSkillsMassWeightAbsolutesMereImpressionPlusSentimentsTranslateVolumeCompositionSubjectiveLovelinessPretext Book:Georges Braque Source: Georges Braque
“The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.” WorldNaturalNew YorkSonAbsolutesMy SonMuseumsPlaces In The WorldNatural HistoryFavorite PlacesMuseum Of Natural History Author:Mark Teixeira