“It is said that life is too short, and that’s quite true, unless you are lonely. Loneliness can bring time to its knees; an absolute and utter standstill.” SaidLife IsLonelinessLonelyAbsolutesKneesToo ShortLife Is Too ShortStandstill Book:Losing Julia Source: Losing Julia
“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
“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.” KindHas BeensSaidPhilosophyMovementIgnoranceTaughtBecomingRelationAbsolutesPhilosopherWork Out Book:In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays Source: In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays
“Truth indeed is sacred; but, as Pilate said, "What is truth?" Show us the undoubted infallible criterion of absolute truth, and we will hold it as a sacred inviolable thing. But in the absence of that infallible criterion, we have all an equal right to grope about in our search of it, and no body and no school nor clique must be allowed to set up a standard of orthodoxy which shall bar the freedom of scientific inquiry.” SaidShowsBodySchoolEqualStandardsAbsolutesSacredAbsenceBarsInquiryCriteriaOrthodoxyInfallibleAbsolute TruthClique Author:William Stanley Jevons
“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