Transcendence Quotes - Page 6

• I shall risk nothing on an attempt to prove the transcendence of p. If others undertake this enterprise, no one will be happier than I in their success. But believe me, it will not fail to cost them some effort.

  Charles Hermite

  Believe, Effort, Risk

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• Transcendence implies the surpassing of two things, and the consequent attainment of a third thing. But there are no 'things' in reality, of any kind whatever: there is only the thing-in-itself, its suchness, which is Reality, revealed when the illusory dualism of inexistent qualities is dissolved.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Reality, Two, Quality

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• I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Doom And Gloom, Differences

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Of course, both [Oscar] Wilde & [Vladimir] Nabokov believe in many things, and these things emerge in their writing clearly - for Wilde, the folly of humankind and the (romantic) grandeur of the heroic, lone individual (not unlike Wilde himself); for Nabokov, the possibility of a kind of transcendence through a great, prevailing, superior sort of love (especially in Ada, the most self-congratulatory of novels.)

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Believe, Writing, Self

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• I think the origins of music have probably to do with magic and transcendence as well.

  Justin Adams

  Thinking, Magic, Wells

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Character, Self, Indulgence

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.73, University of Chicago Press

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• No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones, practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.

  Adrienne Rich

  Exercise, Simple, Goes On

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• The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams, gasoline, guitars screaming like whips, MIDI-programmed Thanatos, with sufficient amplitude to occupy that hollow space where consciousness once resided. These Dionysians obliterate themselves by removing filters, ultimately becoming insensate with sensation. This mode of behaviour originates in the superstitious belief that transcendence is acquired in the precise ratio by which reason is destroyed.

  Adam Parfrey

  Guitar, Class, Space

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• To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.

  Martin Seligman

  Justice, Humanity, Six

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.121, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, of buddhahood.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Creating, Secret

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• People love miracle stories and dramatic moments of transcendence or transformation, and may then pursue their own dramatic "awakenings."

  Dan Millman

  People, Miracle, Stories

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• An improv artist's best instrument is their ability keep their antennae clean so they're able to receive what I call the connection to creativity. It's the thing that you see in any amazing moment that any human being is performing. Whether it's watching Michael Jordan navigating through all these attackers and then suddenly rising up and putting the ball in the most amazing way, or watching an actor on stage playing Shakespeare, but not thinking about the actor anymore or the stage or you or the chair, any of these kinds of moments of transcendence.

  Reggie Watts

  Creativity, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The idea to have both something that belongs to what we call supernatural and, at the same time, is anchored in the real world, I think it gives more strength to whatever has to do with the real world and whatever has to do with some transcendence of the material world.

  Olivier Assayas

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Either the material order is the whole of being, wherein all transcendence is an illusion, or it is the phenomenal surface - mysterious, beautiful, terrible, harsh, and haunting - of a world of living spirits.... One should... be able to recognize that it is only the latter view that has ever had the power - over centuries and in every realm of human accomplishment - to summon desire beyond the boring limits marked by mortality, to endow the will with constancy and purpose, and to shape imagination towards ends that should not be possible within the narrow economies of the flesh.

  David Bentley Hart

  Beautiful, Views, Order

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• Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense?

  Dean Cavanagh

  Defense, Use, Crime

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• Materialism is not fundamentally an economic problem, but a cultural one... a spiritual issue. It runs to the depths of our souls, and, for this reason, needs to be understood less in terms of budgets or fiscal cycles and more in terms of where we locate the sacred, of where we search for meaning and transcendence, and of how we think about justice, equality, and the future of our world.

  Robert Wuthnow

  Running, Spiritual, Thinking

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• Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

  Simone Weil

  Levers, Contradiction

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• We live in a world of breathtaking material plenty. That has freed hundreds of millions of people from day-to-day struggles and liberated us to pursue more significant desires: purpose, transcendence, and spiritual fulfillment.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Spiritual, Struggle, People

  Daniel H. Pink (2006). “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future”, p.63, Penguin

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• Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves.

  Steve House

  Self, Framework, Alpinism

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• Scott Fitzgerald said famously that "he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for." But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence.

  Antonio Damasio

  Brain, Scott Fitzgerald, True Happiness

  "The quest to understand consciousness". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Self, Depth, Divinity

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• Since sorrow follows joy As autumn does the spring Man must transcend the joys Of earth, which sorrows bring.

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Spring, Autumn, Men

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• What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence when we exclaim "You know exactly what I mean!" depend for much of their force on the anonymous character of the intimacy between writer and reader.

  Will Self

  Character, Mean, Class

  "Incidents along the road" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2009.

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• I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Spiritual, Age, Firsts

  "A life in art: Anselm Kiefer" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2011.

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• Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of the ego as it is, with its wound and its magic.

  Hannah Arendt

  Acceptance, Self, Expression

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