--- title: "8 Absolute Existence Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 8 Absolute Existence quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Absolute Existence sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b0/ayn-rand-59_absolute_the-man-who-refuses-to-judge-who-neither_221907.jpg" --- > [“The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/the-man-who-refuses-to-judge-who-neither-agrees-nor-disagrees-who-2/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b0/ayn-rand-59_absolute_the-man-who-refuses-to-judge-who-neither_221907.jpg) > [The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hu-shih/the-knowledge-that-mankind-needs-is-not-the-way-or-principle-which/) [Hu Shih](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hu-shih/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/378/hu-shih-19790_absolute-truth_the-knowledge-that-mankind-needs-is-not_418832.jpg) > [“Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/reality-is-an-absolute-existence-is-an-absolute-a-speck-of-dust-is-an/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddd/ayn-rand-59_absolutes_reality-is-an-absolute-existence-is-an-a_542608.jpg) > [God is One. There cannot be two or more. For if there were two God's who created them? There must have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rama-swami/god-is-one-there-cannot-be-two-or-more-for-if-there-were-two-god-s/) [Rama Swami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rama-swami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/015/rama-swami-28023_absolutes_god-is-one-there-cannot-be-two-or-more-f_612465.jpg) > [The being which has absolute existence, which has never been and will never be without existence, is not in need of an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maimonides/the-being-which-has-absolute-existence-which-has-never-been-and-will/) [Maimonides](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maimonides/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73f/maimonides-2639_absolute_the-being-which-has-absolute-existence-w_716300.png) > [When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/when-we-are-unhurried-and-wise-we-perceive-that-only-great-and-worthy/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0b/henry-david-thoreau-20_existence_when-we-are-unhurried-and-wise-we-percei_1456072.jpg) > [The question between the materialists and me is not, whether things have a real existence out of the mind of this or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/the-question-between-the-materialists-and-me-is-not-whether-things/) [George Berkeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-berkeley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/901/george-berkeley-8287_absolutes_the-question-between-the-materialists-an_1770868.jpg) > [“The self has no inherent, unconditional, absolute existence apart from the network of causes it arises from, in, and as.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-hanson/the-self-has-no-inherent-unconditional-absolute-existence-apart-from/) [Rick Hanson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-hanson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/360/rick-hanson-10793_existence_the-self-has-no-inherent-unconditional-a_2661447.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absolute-existence/#itemlist", "name": "Absolute Existence Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world. Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute. Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolute. Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute. There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. 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