absolute-truth

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.

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

...[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not.

Absolute is infinite so there is no absolute truth. There is truth that you can see in infinite ways and make your own.

After establishing anything as the absolute truth, its_ conclusion is reached. It doesn__ have to be established as the truth again. What is proven as the eternal established truth for past, present and future is known as the Principle [Siddhant].

If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous.

This (Knowledge of Akram Vignan) is the __eal_ thing and it is the absolute truth and the absolute truth is always functional (gives results).

The truth is that there is no absolute truth.

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.

There is no absolute truth. There is only your truth.

God's truth!' one side shouts.'More loving!' comes the response.'God's truth!''More loving!''God's truth!''More loving!'But there shouldn't be a clash between 'God's truth' and 'More loving.' In the Bible, Truth and Love are two sides of the same coin. You can't have one without the other. God's Truth is all about God's Love for us and the Love we ought to have for one another. We are being untrue to that Truth if we treat people unlovingly. And we are missing out on the full extent of that Love if we try to divorce it from Ultimate Truth.

I never thought before,_ said Tirin unruffled, __f the fact that there are people sitting on a hill, up there, on Urras, looking at Anarres, at us, and saying, __ook, there__ the Moon._ Our earth is their Moon; our Moon is their earth._ __here, then, is Truth?_ declaimed Bedap, and yawned. __n the hill one happens to be sitting on,_ said Tirin.

Implicit _ in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth, the infallibility of any idea or ideology or theology or __sm,_ 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_

...[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...