{"quotes":[{"text":"Imitation finds no place at all in morality, and examples serve only for encouragement, that is, they put beyond doubt the feasibility of what the law commands, they make visible that which the practical rule expresses more generally, but they can never authorize us to set aside the true original which lies in reason, and to guide ourselves by examples.","author":"Immanuel Kant","tags":["absolute-truth","conversion","miracles"],"id":7025,"author_id":"Immanuel+Kant"},{"text":"The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["absolute-truth","psychology","reality","sufis","sufism","truth"],"id":53451,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"I never thought before,” said Tirin unruffled, “of the fact that there are people sitting on a hill, up there, on Urras, looking at Anarres, at us, and saying, ‘Look, there’s the Moon.’ Our earth is their Moon; our Moon is their earth.” “Where, then, is Truth?” declaimed Bedap, and yawned. “In the hill one happens to be sitting on,” said Tirin.","author":"Ursula K. Le Guin","tags":["absolute-truth","anarres","earth","hill","moon","truth","urras"],"id":175050,"author_id":"Ursula+K.+Le+Guin"},{"text":"...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly...","author":"Socrates","tags":["absolute-truth","character","honor","integrity","righteousness","wellness"],"id":183237,"author_id":"Socrates"},{"text":"...[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not.","author":"Socrates","tags":["absolute-truth","character","courage","political-correctness","tact"],"id":209722,"author_id":"Socrates"},{"text":"This (Knowledge of Akram Vignan) is the ‘real’ thing and it is the absolute truth and the absolute truth is always functional (gives results).","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["absolute-truth","akram-vignan","knowledge","spiritual","spiritual","truth"],"id":216334,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Absolute is infinite so there is no absolute truth. There is truth that you can see in infinite ways and make your own.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["absolute-truth","debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-md","how-to-see-the-truth","inspirational","philosophy","quotes","truth"],"id":217766,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination, and of the heart.","author":"Salman Rushdie","tags":["absolute-truth","explore","heart","human-society","human-spirit","imagination","literature","places","truth","truth-of-the-tale"],"id":295625,"author_id":"Salman+Rushdie"},{"text":"If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["absolute-truth","absolutes","beautiful","beauty","comparison","depravity","flawlessness","glory","glory-of-god","god","hideous","holiness","life","magnificence","perfection","relativity","righteousness","sin","ugly"],"id":297593,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Implicit … in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth, the infallibility of any idea or ideology or theology or “ism,” any tyrannical consistency that might lock future generations into a single, unalterable course, or drive both majorities and minorities into the cruelties of the Inquisition, the pogrom, the gulag, or the jihad....A rejection of absolutism, in all its forms, may sometimes slip into moral relativism or even nihilism, an erosion of values that hold society together….","author":"Barack Obama","tags":["absolute-truth","ideology","liberty","moral-relativism","nihilism","theology","tyranny"],"id":301255,"author_id":"Barack+Obama"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}