Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
Interpretation
The search for absolute truth is a personal and spiritual journey.
This quote suggests that the notion of absolute truth is subjective and may only be fully comprehended by a divine entity or higher power. It emphasizes the futility of seeking concrete truths in a world filled with varying perceptions and beliefs, implying that individual understanding is limited and influenced by personal experience and interpretation.
In practice
During a philosophical debate on what constitutes truth.
Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often as I am capable of acquiring fresh knowledge? Is this hypothesis so laughable merely because it is the oldest? Because the human understanding, before the sophistries of the schools had dissipated and debilitated it, lighted upon it at once?
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes
Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man
I would like the church to be a place where the questions of people are honored rather than a place where we have all the answers. The church has to get out of propaganda. The future will involve us in more interfaith dialogue. ... We cannot say we have the only truth.
This work, though it deals only with eating and drinking, which are regarded in the eyes of our supernaturalistic mock-culture as the lowest acts, is of the greatest philosophic significance and importance... How former philosophers have broken their heads over the question of the bond between body and soul! Now we know, on scientific grounds, what the masses know from long experience, that eating and drinking hold together body and soul, that the searched-for bond is nutrition.
I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
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