Absolute Quotes

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All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and… — Charles Baudelaire
Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from… — Adolf Hitler
The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way......What you are in love with, what… — Pedro Arrupe
Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted. — Herbert Spencer
By starting from the ground and tapping into the absolute, uncheatable truth of nature we can make ourselves better — Monty Don
It is vitally important that we can continue to say, with absolute conviction, that organic farming delivers the highest quality, best-tasting food, produced without artificial… — Prince Charles
There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from living in this… — Wendell Berry
Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination. — Adrienne Rich
A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive. — Thomas Jefferson
The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property. — William Blackstone
In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of… — Woodrow Wilson
Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it… — Thomas Paine
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or… — Thomas Paine
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the… — Michel Foucault
There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto… — Eric Hoffer
My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called… — Harold Pinter
Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour. — Jane Fonda

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