QuoteProject
Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with the arts enjoying a totalitarian rule.
Ravi Zacharias
ShareWTF𝕏

Interpretation

What this quote means

The quote reflects on how truth and beauty are perceived subjectively, leading to a society influenced by a distorted view of art and culture.

Ravi Zacharias critiques the current societal trend where truth is seen as subjective and beauty reliant on personal perception. He suggests that this has resulted in a collective mindset that diminishes intellectual and artistic standards, ultimately allowing a form of cultural domination by simplistic and misleading narratives.

Themes

TruthBeautySubjectivityArtCultureSociety

In practice

Example use cases

This quote can be used in a lecture about the impact of media on public perception.

More from Ravi Zacharias

I am convinced that all our attempts to change the letter of the law and to reeducate people have been, and are, merely band-aid solutions for a fatal hemorrhage. The system will never change because our starting point is flawed. The secular view of man can neither give the grandeur that God alone can give, nor can it see the evil within the human heart that God alone can reveal and cure, for atheism implicitly denudes each individual of the grand image God has imprinted upon His creation.
Ravi ZachariasRead
Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral, When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right. There was a pin-drop silence.
Ravi ZachariasRead
Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.
Ravi ZachariasRead
It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good.
Ravi ZachariasRead
You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live.
Ravi ZachariasRead
If you believe in subjective morality, why do you lock your doors at night?
Ravi ZachariasRead

Similar quotes

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.
Philip K. DickRead
Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable instruments. A man might work out the whole of mathematics with a handful of pebbles, but not with a handful of clay which was always falling apart into new fragments, and falling together into new combinations. A man might measure heaven and earth with a reed, but not with a growing reed.
Gilbert K. ChestertonRead
Every institution is inherently demonic.
Paul TillichRead
Our life is a creation of our mind.
Gautama BuddhaRead
Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must not seek to rob a nation of its character, even if it could be proved that the character was all faults.
Swami VivekanandaRead
In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.
Gautama BuddhaRead

A little wisdom, now and then

Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.