Absolute Quotes

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The strongest of metals is forged under the most violent of conditions, my lord. It is buried deep in the hottest coals and then beat… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Absolute power is absolute power, no matter what it's called. — Marie Lu
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
Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling. — John William Draper
Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time. — Marshall McLuhan
I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. — Agnes Macphail
Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence. — Desmond Tutu
I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen… — H. L. Mencken
Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a… — Albert Einstein
The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense. — Crane Brinton
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and… — George Santayana
Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our… — Blaise Pascal
A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with… — Karl Mannheim
Love is basic for the very survival of mankind. I'm convinced that love is the only absolute ultimately; love is the highest good. He who… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as… — Immanuel Kant
All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach. — Nicholas of Cusa
I just have this absolute belief that humans are moving away from cruelty and destruction towards a time when we can truly live in harmony… — Jane Goodall
It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth. — Werner Heisenberg

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