Absolute Quotes

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Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language. — Fulton J. Sheen
Listing rights generally involves enumerating things you may do without interference (the right to free speech) or may not be done to you without your… — Cliff Asness
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh. — Carl Reiner
In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been… — Lincoln Kirstein
Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power… — Thomas Jefferson
To achieve that state of lasting happiness and absolute peace, we must first know how to calm the mind, to concentrate and go beyond the… — Sivananda
In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose. — Francois Arago
Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for… — John Stuart Mill
The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the… — Jiang Zemin
For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's… — Vincent Van Gogh
Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and adaptations s secure,… — George Perkins Marsh
PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it. — Ambrose Bierce
...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the… — Pablo Picasso
The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the… — Soren Kierkegaard
He was one of my most dramatic recoveries with AIDS, and the reason I say that is that he was the most far gone. He… — Richard M. Schulze
Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To think I have spent my life on absolute muck. — Bertrand Russell
It is not too fantastic to say that he desired them with some of the absolute passion that characterised the exposed and flaming heart of… — Thomas Keneally
Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty,… — Ashley Montagu

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