Transcendence Quotes

118 Transcendence quotes by 91 unique authors

Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based on a dream… — Jacqueline Novogratz
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence. — Simone Weil
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… — Daniel H. Pink
Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved...… — Emmanuel Levinas
Individual self-transcendence collectively inspires humanity at large. — Sri Chinmoy
My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of… — Richard Rorty
Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy… — Eugene H. Peterson
Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves. — Steve House
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… — Antonio Damasio
...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures. — Reinhold Niebuhr
The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological… — Ray Kurzweil
What gives life its value if not its constant cry for self-transcendence? — Sri Chinmoy
Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and mutual agreement in… — Ken Wilber
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,… — Adam Parfrey
The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence. — Andrew Delbanco
I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act. It is an act… — Janet Mock
To make sense of this view (design as opposed to accident), one must accept the idea of transcendence: that the Designer exists in a totally… — George F. R. Ellis
I really do think that art can save you in some sense. It's the last meaning, unless you're religious-and I'm not religious. It's the only… — Sam Savage
My effort here is to create bliss, not happiness. Happiness is worthless; it depends on unhappiness. Bliss is transcendence: one moves beyond the duality of… — Rajneesh
The Yoga of the Dream State has always held to be one of the fastest, most efficient ways of reaching a plateau experience of subtle… — Ken Wilber
Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true… — Viktor E. Frankl
So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?" — Byron Katie
To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are… — Sissela Bok
In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we… — James MacDonald

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