Best Transcendence Quotations
118 Transcendence quotes by 91 unique authors
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The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of Christ is joyful…
— Joseph Campbell
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Amid countless everyday miracles, I come in contact with something greater than myself and realize I am a part of it... I move in wonder…
— John Paul Caponigro
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This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is, in essence,…
— Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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It has been preached in every country, taught everywhere, but only believed in by a few, because until we get the experience ourselves, we cannot…
— Bill Vaughan
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Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims…
— George Steiner
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the…
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
— Tom Robbins
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Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is…
— Terry Pratchett
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I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think…
— Marilynne Robinson
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Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier…
— John Updike
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...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians have insisted for centuries that God does not exist and that there is 'nothing' out there; in making these assertions,…
— Karen Armstrong
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What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is…
— David Foster Wallace
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Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a…
— Tom Robbins
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Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have a sound historical…
— Karen Armstrong
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I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that…
— Tobias Wolff
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My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.
— Susan Sontag
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[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a…
— Joseph Campbell
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To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for…
— Thomas Ligotti
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People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got.
— Patton Oswalt
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There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original…
— Mark Epstein
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To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
— Eckhart Tolle
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And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward…
— Martin Heidegger
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Without transcendence, life has no beauty.
— Deepak Chopra
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I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work…
— Pierre Bourdieu
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