In the first period the absolute for Schelling is creative nature; in the second, the identity of opposites; in the third it is an antemundane process which advances from the not-yet-present of the contraries to their overcoming.

Hence the Hegelian principles, that the absolute is self-consciousness, that in man God knows himself, must be reversed: self-consciousness is the absolute; in his God man knows himself only.

The absolute is a process, and all that is real the manifestation of this process.

The Absolute is only an hypothesis, 292.

But truth in its finality, the Absolute, the noumenon that is the substance of phenomena, is in itself not a thing that can be directly apprehended by man; it lies within the "ultra-violet" rays of his intellectual spectrum.

The absolute just is our philosophy, along with everything else that is known, in an act of knowing which (to use the words of my gifted absolutist colleague Royce) forms in its wholeness one luminously transparent conscious moment.

The most abstract of all pantheistic systems he described to be that of the Brahmans, as taught in the Vedas and Vedashta, and also at first by Schelling, viz., that the absolute is the first principle of all things; and this absolute is not to be conceived of as possessing any attribute at allnot even that of existence.

Hegel is a seer rather than a reasoner, 107. 'The Absolute' and 'God' are two different notions, 110.

And then, since everything whatever is part of the whole universe, and since (if we are idealists) nothing, whether part or whole, exists except for a witness, we proceed to the conclusion that the unmitigated absolute as witness of the whole is the one sole ground of being of every partial fact, the fact of our own existence included.

Sir Anthony Absolute and Tony Lumpkin were perhaps his chief triumphs.

The absolute is a rationalist conception.

The absolute and the world are one fact, I said, when materially considered.

The absolute is the region of causes, and the relative is the region of conditions; and hence, if we wish to control conditions, this can only be done by our thought-power operating on the plane of the absolute, which it can do only through the medium of the subjective mind.

(Accord-to Hegel's parody, the absolute is the night, in which all cows are black.)

The absolute is that idea of a thing which contemplates it as existing in itself and not in relation to something else, that is to say, which contemplates the essence of it; and the relative is that idea of a thing which contemplates it as related to other things, that is to say as circumscribed by a certain environment.

The Absolute is the primal unity, exalted above all antitheses, from which all created being is unfolded and in which it remains included.

The individual absolute, with its parts co-implicated through and through, so that there is nothing in any part by which any other part can remain inwardly unaffected, is the only rational supposition.

For a few short hours she can live again in the splendor of the pastthe past, when a Guinigi was the equal of kings, his word more absolute than law, his frown more terrible than death!