Absolute Quotes
1809 quotes by 1307 authors
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[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.
— Jacques Barzun
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The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute…
— Albert Camus
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The book is all in us. Fool, hearest not thou? In thine own heart day and night is singing that Eternal Music - Sachchidânanda, soham,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.
— Antoine R. Ivins
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This is Rick Grimes being pushed to his absolute limit. And if you think you’ve seen that before, you haven’t. And the Rick Grimes that…
— Robert Kirkman
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Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.
— Stephan Pastis
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Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God, as God is…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
— Emile M. Cioran
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I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.
— Regina Spektor
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I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other, then the possibility…
— Isaiah Berlin
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The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.
— Richard Wagner
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Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the wayThat's another piece of garbage. What the hell's it based on? We couldn't've come from…
— John Lennon
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God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation…
— Gerrit Smith
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In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.
— Jean Piaget
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No doubt a man may be saved, like the penitent thief, without having received the Lord's Supper. It is not a matter of absolute and…
— J C Ryle
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All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.
— Pema Chodron
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We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it.
— Marie-Louise von Franz
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Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.
— Murray Rothbard
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