Absolutes Quote by Harold Rosenberg

“Every profound literary work is a bridge between what we are and what we may become, not just as individuals, but as a collective…

— Alok Mishra

“Historically speaking, just about everything we know to be ‘absolute’ will eventually change due to ‘new findings’.”

— Gary Hopkins

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of…

— Winston Churchill

“No new truths await discovery; everything has been given already. But it has all been scattered abroad and dispersed, misrepresented by analysis, dulled by…

— Isha Schwaller de Lubicz

“The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.”

— Richard Handler

“Words are a mirror of their times. By looking at the areas in which the vocabulary of a language is expanding fastest in a…

— John Ayto

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

— Iris Murdoch

“it seemed to me that I had mastered words to the point of sweeping away forever the contradictions of being in the world, the…

— Elena Ferrante

For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

— Iris Murdoch

“There is indeed power in words. Most of the lasting change that has been forged in the history of this world came not from…

— Mark Dunn

“good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories. This”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson