Absolute Quotes

1809 quotes by 1307 authors

Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool. — Lewis Carroll
One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat. — Ingrid Newkirk
When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all… — Loren Eiseley
If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no… — Peter Kreeft
For the poor of this world, two major ways of expiring are available: either by the absolute indifference of your fellow-men in peace-time, or by… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth. — Eric Temple Bell
The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped. — George Orwell
All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with… — George Orwell
Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. — Albert Camus
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not… — Alfred North Whitehead
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical… — Thomas Love Peacock
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life… — Rebecca Harding Davis
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by… — Henri Bergson
To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray… — Andre Breton
And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it too,… — Umberto Eco
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. — Wendell Phillips
There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's John F. Kennedys… — Lord Acton
Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the… — Lynne Truss
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of… — Isaiah Berlin
When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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