Absolute Quotes

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A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. — Carlos Castaneda
Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous… — Muhammad Asad
Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who… — Jodi Picoult
Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities.… — H. P. Blavatsky
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. — Audre Lorde
Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of… — Stephen Fry
Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. — Tom Robbins
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission — Zig Ziglar
The question occurred to me: Well, if that's so, if the Divine is ultimately formless and genderless, what's the big deal? Why all this bother?… — Sue Monk Kidd
Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story… — Truman Capote
What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the… — Max Lucado
You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely?' It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the… — Studs Terkel
The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. — Harold Pinter
There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation. — James A. Baldwin
Meet your obligations. But obligations never prevented anyone from following their dreams. Remember that you are a manifestation of the absolute, and do only those… — Paulo Coelho
the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for… — George Santayana
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.… — Shirley Jackson
For, of course, being a girl, oneâ€™s whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and… — D. H. Lawrence
The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the… — Erich Fromm

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