Absolute Quotes

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No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of… — Jacques Ellul
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers… — Richard P. Feynman
This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone. — Jack London
There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life… — Cassandra Clare
[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil. — Tim O'Brien
I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each… — Isabel Allende
The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain… — Jean Baudrillard
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless. — Leo Tolstoy
I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete â€” that's what scares me. That's why… — J D Salinger
Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the… — Patrick O'Brian
Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit… — Michel Foucault
At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end.… — Nathanael West
It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in… — William Sloane Coffin
Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on the road. Henceforth,… — Karen Armstrong
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order… — Thomas Merton
The Universe is very, very big. It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules. Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever.… — Craig Ferguson
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is… — Alan Lightman
All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons,… — Dorothy L. Sayers
The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental. — Jacques Maritain
God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.… — C.S. Lewis

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