— Lee Smolin American cosmologist 1955
The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next (2007)
„God is simple. Everything else is complex. Do not seek absolute values in the relative world of nature.“
Quelle: Autobiography of a Yogi:
Letzte Aktualisierung 3. Juni 2021. Geschichte
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Yogi und Guru 1893 - 1952Ähnliche Zitate
— Flannery O’Connor American novelist, short story writer 1925 - 1964
Quelle: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
„Freedom, like everything else, is relative.“
— Margaret Atwood Canadian writer 1939
Quelle: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 36 (p. 231)
— Noam Chomsky american linguist, philosopher and activist 1928
Quotes 2000s, 2005, Interview by Steve Scher on KUOW, 2004
„There is no conflict in the absolute universe, but there is conflict in the relative world.“
— Koichi Tohei Japanese aikidoka 1920 - 2011
10 : The principle of non-dissension
Ki Sayings (2003)
Kontext: There is no conflict in the absolute universe, but there is conflict in the relative world. If we unify our mind and body become one with the universe, others will follow us gladly. Do not say that this is a world where we must struggle to live each day. The true way to success is exactly one and the same as the principle of non-dissension, and that is the way of peace.
„everything is relative, one man’s absolute belief is another man’s fairy tale;“
— Salman Rushdie, buch Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Quelle: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
„In my world, everything is possible and everything is relative.“
— Paulo Coelho, buch The Zahir
Quelle: The Zahir (2005), p. 167.
„Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.“
— Gottfried Leibniz, buch Discourse on Metaphysics
Chaque substance est comme un monde à part, indépendant de toute autre chose, hors de Dieu...
Discours de métaphysique (1686)
„The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.“
— Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed
Quelle: Something Borrowed
„One cannot think of the Absolute without the Relative, or of the Relative without the Absolute.“
— Ramakrishna Indian mystic and religious preacher 1836 - 1886
Quelle: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 134
Kontext: Brahman and Śakti are identical. If you accept the one, you must accept the other. It is like fire and its power to burn. If you see the fire, you must recognize its power to burn also. You cannot think of fire without its power to burn, nor can you think of the power to burn without fire. You cannot conceive of the sun's rays without the sun, nor can you conceive of the sun without its rays. You cannot think of the milk without the whiteness, and again, you cannot think of the whiteness without the milk. Thus one cannot think of Brahman without Śakti, or of Śakti without Brahman. One cannot think of the Absolute without the Relative, or of the Relative without the Absolute.
— Douglas Adams English writer and humorist 1952 - 2001
Response to the question "What is it about science that really gets your blood running?" — as quoted in Richard Dawkins in his eulogy for Adams (17 September 2001)
Kontext: The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened, it's just wonderful. And … the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned.
„Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.“
— Leon Trotsky Marxist revolutionary from Russia 1879 - 1940
„If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.“
— Seneca the Younger, buch Epistulae morales
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CIV: On Care of Health and Peace of Mind
„Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.“
— Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900
— Terry Eagleton British writer, academic and educator 1943
Quelle: 1980s, Against The Grain (1986), Ch. 10, The Critic as Clown
„Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.“
— Willa Cather, buch My Mortal Enemy
My Mortal Enemy (1926)
— Reinhold Niebuhr American protestant theologian 1892 - 1971
The Mike Wallace Interview (1958)
Kontext: The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment. Nonetheless, the human situation is so, and this is why I think that the Christian faith is right as against simple forms of secularism. That it believes that there is in man a radical freedom, and this freedom is creative but it is also destructive — and there's nothing that prevents this from being both creative and destructive. That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence.
