Absolute Quotes

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If it turns out that physical death truly results in the absolute cessation of consciousness, then it would seem to me that in the grand… — Derek R. Audette
An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the… — Derek R. Audette
Do you realize the unimaginable greatness, the holiness of what you so casually call 'consciousness'? It is the unmanifest Absolute aware of its awareness through… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The life, beauty and meaning of the whole created order, from the tomtit to the Milky Way, refers back to the Absolute Life and Beauty… — Evelyn Underhill
Our larger body is eternity. Eventually, we return to the source in its undifferentiated form, in its absolute form, which is both form and formlessness,… — Frederick Lenz
REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative… — Ambrose Bierce
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he… — John F. Kennedy
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle. — Zhuangzi
Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace. — D. H. Lawrence
A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness… — Eric Hoffer
The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity. — Eric Hoffer
Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is… — Eric Hoffer
Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes… — Washington Irving
There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us... — Pablo Picasso
Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his… — William Shenstone
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. — Robert Southey
Claude Hopkins.. maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock. — David Ogilvy
So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm. — Paul Ricoeur
There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have… — Henri Matisse
Absolute and entire ugliness is rare. — John Ruskin

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