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
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.
Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
The first thing which will be judged among a man's deeds on the Day of Resurrection is the Prayer. If this is in good order then he will succeed and prosper but if it is defective then he will fail and will be a loser.
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed through the Middle Ages. Rather mankind has retreated from the Middle Ages in reaction and rout. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
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