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“Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our discomforts from the fragility of our relations with the absolute.”

Religious Relation Absolutes Profound Paradise Unhappiness Aspire Discomfort Dissatisfaction Fragility Incapacity

Book:A short history of decay

Source: A short history of decay

“We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.”

Men Desire Lost Natural Emotion Concern Relation Absolutes Contact Exalted

Author:Barnett Newman

“I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common.”

Source: Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World: The motion of bodies

“Even those who have desired to work out a completely positive philosophy have been philosophers only to the extent that, at the same time, they have refused the right to install themselves in absolute knowledge. They taught not this knowledge, but its becoming in us, not the absolute but, at most, our absolute relation to it, as Kierkegaard said. What makes a philosopher is the movement which leads back without ceasing from knowledge to ignorance, from ignorance to knowledge, and a kind of rest in this movement.”

Kind Has Beens Said Philosophy Movement Ignorance Taught Becoming Relation Absolutes Philosopher Work Out

Book:In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays

Source: In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays

“Subjects who reciprocally recognize each other as such, must consider each other as identical, insofar as they both take up the position of subject; they must at all times subsume themselves and the other under the same category. At the same time, the relation of reciprocity of recognition demands the non-identity of one and the other, both must also maintain their absolute difference, for to be a subject implies the claim of individuation.”

Differences Subjects Identity Position Demand Claims Relation Absolutes All Time Recognition Categories Identical Reciprocity Individuation

Author:Jurgen Habermas

“Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute.”

Way Mean Individual Atheism Higher Please Universal Relation Absolutes Notes Superiors Paradox Inferiors Justified Subordinates

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“There exists an infinite, eternal Being, subsisting of himself, who is one without being alone; for he finds in his own essence relations whence, with the necessary movement of his life, results the absolute plenitude of his perfection and his happiness. A Being unique and complete, God suffices to himself.”

God Results Movement Eternal Unique Perfection Essence Relation Absolutes Infinite Being Unique Plenitude

Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.”

“Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.”

Flow Relation Absolutes Mathematical

Book:Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World

Source: Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World

“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.”

Relation Absolutes Symbols Absolute Truth

Book:Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

Source: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.”

Wall Concepts Relation Absolutes Symbols Existentialism Fabulous Primal Absolute Truth

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Richness, the ideas of having plenty of money, is not ... an absolute state. Richness is about the amount of money you have compared to the people you see around you. It is about where you are in relation to others, and where they are in relation to you ... and whether you can have the things you want and other people have.”

People Want Ideas States Wealth Amount Relation Absolutes Plenty Where You Are Richness

Author:John Lanchester

“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.”

“Meaning can only be understood in relation to its environment. Therefore, the words only make full sense in context... There are no absolutes, there is no meaning without relationships, everything is not only interacting but interdependent. The kahunas use this idea to help give a person a powerfully secure sense of significance, while at the same time teaching him that to heal himself is to heal the world, and to heal the world is to heal himself. This is not a loss of individuality, but an understanding that individuality itself is a relationship with the environment.”

World Giving Persons Ideas Helping Use Spiritual Understanding Loss Environment Teaching Understood Relation Absolutes Individuality Heal Secure Significance Interacting Heal The World

Author:Serge King