Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Do you realize the unimaginable greatness, the holiness of what you so casually call 'consciousness'? It is the unmanifest Absolute aware of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Probably no theologian in English language has ever rivaled Owen stressing the absolute centrality of Christ's penal substitution and therefore his as… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
I want to drink life to the dregs, to enlarge myself to the absolute limits of my being - and to strive… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Flying is absolute freedom. I know the feeling of flying from various aircraft. But there was always something surrounding me that I… — Yves Rossy Copy Share Image
I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
In my view, the Catholic Church as a community of faith will be preserved, but only if it abandons the Roman system… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute - and knowable? Or are… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only time I got the absolute most insanely nervous in my life was at the Olympic trials, because archery is a… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we're simultaneously both cowardly and… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Hover boards, unfortunately, currently violate the laws of physics. Supermagnets exist, but they have to be cooled to near absolute zero, and… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of wilfulness when it… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
In early times, the great majority of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Buddha himself taught different teachings to different people under different circumstances. For some people, there are beliefs based on a Creator. For… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The scriptures, for example, discredit an ancient philosophy that has come back into vogue in our day-the philosophy of Korihor that there… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Be really picky with your hiring, and hire the absolute best people you possibly can. People are the most important component of… — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth… — David Sylvester Copy Share Image
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as absolute cost of labour; it is all a matter of comparison. Every one gets the most… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Life is endless reality. There is reality after reality, spinning on endlessly into the cosmos, billions and billions of manifest universes. Underlying… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are nature and nurture components to virtually every behavior a human experiences. The research effort lies only in finding the relevant… — John Medina Copy Share Image
One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk, all takes… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
I don't think scientists can dictate from above what we should do, because it's not a matter of scientific decision. If you… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Faith exists when absolute confidence in that which we cannot see combines with action that is in absolute conformity to the will… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Let the artist have just enough to eat, and the tools of this trade: ask nothing of him. Materially make the life… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
I think democracies are prone to inflation because politicians will naturally spend [excessively] - they have the power to print money and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
![“I think democracies are prone to inflation because politicians will naturally spend [excessively] - they have the power to print money and will use money to get votes. If you look at inflation under the Roman Empire, with absolute rulers, they had much greater inflation, so we don't set the…” quote by Charlie Munger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d6/charlie-munger-458_absolutes_i-think-democracies-are-prone-to-inflati_1006251.jpg)
