Absolute Quotes

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Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that we avoid unhappiness.… — Hugh Prather
There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly… — Annie Lennox
The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they… — Herbert Spencer
It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never conceive a question… — Claude Bernard
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually… — George Santayana
After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds… — Horace Mann
It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion. — Joseph Goebbels
Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Listening is totally different from hearing. Hearing, anybody who is not deaf can do. Listening is a rare art, one of the last arts. Listening… — Rajneesh
I want to make meditation an absolute for all students, whatever the subject they may be studying, so their awareness becomes more and more clean… — Rajneesh
Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest. — Thomas Carlyle
An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with… — Joseph Addison
Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name… — Isaac Newton
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has… — Robert Southey
Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom. — Albert Camus
An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death. — Freya Stark
English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as… — James Anthony Froude
Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others… — Eric Hoffer
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and… — H. L. Mencken
You must have absolute faith in your own perceptions of truth. Never act in haste or hurry; be deliberated in everything; wait until you know… — Wallace D. Wattles

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