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The idea of human rights and freedoms must be an integral part of any meaningful world order.
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
Cultural conflicts are increasing and are understandably more dangerous today than at any other time in history.
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
The existence of a higher authority than man himself simply began to get in the way of human aspirations.
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
I think there are good reasons for suggesting that the modern age has ended.
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
Man as an observer is becoming completely alienated from himself as a being.
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
It is clearly necessary to invent organizational structures appropriate to the present multicultural age. But such efforts are doomed to failure if they do not grow out of something deeper, out of generally held values.
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only if he does not forget the One who endowed him with it.
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
What I am about to say may sound provocative, but I feel more and more strongly that even these ideas are not enough, that we must go farther and deeper.
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
This forgotten awareness is encoded in all religions. All cultures anticipate it in various forms. It is one of the things that form the basis of man's understanding of himself, of his place in the world, and ultimately of the world as such.
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
It logically follows that, in today's multicultural world, the truly reliable path to coexistence, to peaceful coexistence and creative cooperation, must start from what is at the root of all cultures and what lies infinitely deeper in human hearts and minds than political opinion, convictions, antipathies, or sympathies — it must be rooted in self-transcendence
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
Classical modern science described only the surface of things, a single dimension of reality. And the more dogmatically science treated it as the only dimension, as the very essence of reality, the more misleading it became.
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
They are periods when there is a tendency to quote, to imitate, and to amplify, rather than to state with authority or integrate. New meaning is gradually born from the encounter, or the intersection, of many different elements.
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
An amalgamation of cultures is taking place. I see it as proof that something is happening, something is being born, that we are in a phase when one age is succeeding another, when everything is possible.
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)