Absolute Quotes
1809 quotes by 1300 authors
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike,…
— Lord Acton
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The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom…
— Gilbert Murray
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Be willing to take the first step, no matter how small it is. Concentrate on the fact that you are willing to learn. Absolute miracles…
— Louise Hay
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I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of…
— Glen Cook
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The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but…
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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I love kissing. If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because there’s…
— Sufjan Stevens
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The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather,…
— Hermann Broch
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There are two words that, when spoken, have the most unfathomable power to completely change your life. Two words which, when they pass your lips,…
— Rhonda Byrne
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Personally I feel that real rock 'n' roll may be on the way out, just like adolescence as a relatively innocent transitional period is on…
— Lester Bangs
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The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply, I couldn't stop…
— Winsor McCay
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She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift. Believe me, in the…
— Billy Wilder
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Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself, which, in the…
— Otto Weininger
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I want to reach absolute perfection. And I think I can reach it.
— Richard Krajicek
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The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to…
— Jane Smiley
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What Sri Chinmoy has done in his weightlifting is an absolute miracle. He is a man of unique strength, a spiritual man exemplifying mind over…
— Bill Pearl
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The truth I've discovered is that you don't have to lift enormous weights to grow muscle. By using stricter form, slower negatives, and stretching between…
— Frank Zane
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The right of the majority is absolute.
— Benjamin Tucker
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Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle…
— Rudolf Rocker
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Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.
— Gilbert Ryle
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If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth.
— Jill Abramson
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