Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom. — Novalis Copy Share Image
Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet. — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life. — Antoine R. Ivins Copy Share Image
It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action. — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
God's sacred intent for you and for me is nothing short of absolute abandonment to Jesus, entire separation from the pollution of… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
He was one of my most dramatic recoveries with AIDS, and the reason I say that is that he was the most… — Richard M. Schulze Copy Share Image
The sole fact of having a school to train creative people is absolute lunacy... The idea of 'pedagogical vision' is ignoble, it… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
For the poor of this world, two major ways of expiring are available: either by the absolute indifference of your fellow-men in… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments will always… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
It is a matter of course and of absolute necessity to the conduct of business, that any discretionary businessman must be free… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image