Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
Interpretation
The search for absolute truth is a personal and spiritual journey.
This quote suggests that the notion of absolute truth is subjective and may only be fully comprehended by a divine entity or higher power. It emphasizes the futility of seeking concrete truths in a world filled with varying perceptions and beliefs, implying that individual understanding is limited and influenced by personal experience and interpretation.
In practice
During a philosophical debate on what constitutes truth.
Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often as I am capable of acquiring fresh knowledge? Is this hypothesis so laughable merely because it is the oldest? Because the human understanding, before the sophistries of the schools had dissipated and debilitated it, lighted upon it at once?
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes
Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man
This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.
To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geo-strategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.
We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.
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