Sentence examples for the higher truth from inspiring English sources

But in this show, as in a great deal of art nowadays, the higher truth seems to be that truth itself is a perilously slippery concept.

After all, nobody would interrupt a performance of Mahler's Ninth Symphony midway through the final movement to ask the conductor: "Could you just get the musicians to repeat that phrase, so that we may replicate the experience?" I may well be wrong in recalling the details of Platini's pass that night, but it doesn't matter: the higher truth, and all that.

Israel said that one of the cast members, Allen Ginsberg, believed that, by making a loosely scripted art film about real people, Frank was after an illusion of truth that would culminate in the higher truth of who they all really were.

So, by one view, the incident in which Tim Tai, a Missouri student journalist, was blocked from taking pictures of a public gathering on a public campus was just a manufactured controversy, a distraction from the real story, the higher truth — which is the reality of racial oppression at the university.

The higher truth of care and love can still win out.

To produce the higher truth that good literature aspires to, the magic of research pays off in the details.

Instead of continuing to value youth for the sake of youth and flawlessness for the sake of flawlessness, as we are "awakening" to the higher truths of humanity, we are starting to let go of commonly held ideals of external beauty.

Protected by their universities, they're meant to devote themselves to the highest truth.

900; "Aphorisms on Recognition"), Abhinavagupta's Paramarthasara ("The Essence of the Highest Truth"), Pratyabhijna-vimarshini ("Reflections on Recognition"), and Tantraloka ("Lights on the Doctrine") in the 10th century, and Kshemaraja's Shiva-sutra-vimarshini ("Reflections on the Aphorisms on Shiva").

The Dutch Humanist Desiderius Erasmus (1469 1536) and others, however, went farther in stating that the ancient thinkers had a direct knowledge of the highest truth and sometimes in comparing them favourably with Scholastic theologians.

Thus, he challenged both al-Kindī's view that prophets and philosophers have different and independent ways to the highest truth available to human beings and al-Rāzī's view that philosophy is the only way to that knowledge.