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Absolute Quotes by George Santayana
- Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.
- 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…
- In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human…
- 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…
- The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
- 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…
- 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…
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- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin
- But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. — Henry Adams
- What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he… — Dave Barry
- No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank… — Bruce Barton
- Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view,… — Simone de Beauvoir
- It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms… — Simone de Beauvoir
- The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. — Sarah Bernhardt
- The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. — Aneurin Bevan
- Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. — Theodor Adorno