Transcendent – Quotes

The collective experience of

The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die. Gael Garcia Bernal

Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives us the promise and prospect of a transcendent world – far beyond the limits of our human experience – and it remains human, all too human. Ernst Cassirer

God is the transcendent

God is the transcendent whole of things of which you are an individualized part. Eric Butterworth

Love remains a relation

Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved… The possibility of the Other appearing as an object of a need while retaining his alterity, or again,the possibility of enjoying the Other… this simultaneity of need and desire, or … Read more

There is no transcendent

There is no transcendent creator in animism, no god who set the clocks ticking and decides which ones to fix when they falter; nothing exists outside of nature. In other words, my philosophy does not require that I believe in something I cannot experience directly. Emma Restall Orr

Thorny compositions that sound

Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their Philosophy of the World…. Carefully notated structures and interplay morph effortlessly into free improvisation that is intelligent and expressive, but never self-indulgent. Also featuring intense lyrics sung with their clear … Read more

\\’Normal Heart\\’ was my

‘Normal Heart’ was my most transcendent moment as an actor. Ellen Barkin

I read, with a

I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who \”do not write for money.\” It must be a pleasant experience to be able to cultivate so delicate a class of motives for the privilege of doing one’s best to express one’s thoughts to people who care for … Read more

I see my work

I see my work as having a relationship to the visual world, not just some emotive residue of my feelings. It relates to something that exists, or might exist, rather than a transcendent mental state or something like that. Elizabeth Neel

Traditionally, I have responded

Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us indeed- much closer than we can imagine, … Read more