Absolutes Quotes - Page 6

• I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to "truthiness." I am also someone who has been trained in deconstruction in the literary theory department of Yale University, so I am someone who is tempted to believe that no absolute truth is possible.

  John Hodgman

  Believe, Literary Theory, Yale

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• Five, six weeks or two months into the diet and the absolute crazy training regimen is a brutal nightmare sometimes. But in the same breath, that's what is so wonderful about it because it's so structured and your body is changing and you're able to do things that you've never done before. You're stronger than you've ever been before.

  Jessica Biel

  Crazy, Two, Training

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Struggle, Voice

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• I've been very lucky in this second marriage. It's just luck. It's absolute luck. And I can only marvel at it. So many other things could have happened that didn't, so overall I feel blessed.

  Paul Auster

  Blessed, Luck, Second Marriage

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality.

  Thomas Moore

  Beauty, Time, Garden

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• The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

  Samuel Butler

  Ethics, Morality, Stagnation

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4218, Delphi Classics

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• There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.

  Samuel Butler

  Truth, Honesty, Ideas

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.374, The Floating Press

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• The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Vices, Virtue

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.30, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Joining a company is an act that calls for absolute loyalty in big matters and little ones.

  Thomas Watson

  Loyalty, Joining, Littles

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• There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

  Samuel Butler

  Truth, Science, Errors

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.374, The Floating Press

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• Make living your life with absolute integrity and kindness your first priority.

  Richard Carlson

  Kindness, Integrity, Priorities

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Worry, Make Money: Spiritual and Practical Ways to Create Abundance and More Fun in Your Life”, Hyperion Books

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• How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory! A frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! Insect infinite! A worm! A God!

  Edward Young

  Children, Greatness, Men

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”

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• The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or limited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same [whether] in a majority of a popular assembly; an aristocratic council; or oligarchical junto and a single emperor - equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody and in every respect diabolical.

  John Adams

  Political, Arbitrary, Fundamentals

  John Adams' Letter to Thomas Jefferson, founders.archives.gov. November 13, 1815.

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• Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

  John Lehman

  Power, Confusion, Political

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• Millions of Germans had absolute faith in Hitler. Millions of Russians had faith in Stalin. Millions of Chinese had faith in Mao. Billions have had faith in imaginary gods.

  Steve Allen

  Chinese, Religion, Mao

  Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”

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• Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox.

  Robert Walser

  Delight, Today, Facts

  Robert Walser (2013). “The Walk”, p.135, Profile Books

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• Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

  John Howard

  Political, Truth Is, Absolute Truth

  ABC Radio "AM" program, August 25, 1995.

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• Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Men, Order

  "Essays". Book by Francis Bacon. Chapter 17: "Of Superstition", 1625.

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• Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

  Voltaire

  Reality, Civilization, Risk

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• Find preachers of David Brainerd's spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Men, Self, Followers

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• In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

  Arthur Henderson

  War, Gone, Length

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• Awakening is waking up from the daytime dream and realizing that who you thought you were is not limited to thought, emotion or form. Beyond the imaginary seeker, beyond concepts and beliefs, there is a field of innocence and purity. We are this deep peace and sacredness, which is absolute and beyond all intellectual understanding. I invite you to recognize this Essence of Being and to directly realize the illusion of all psychological suffering due to misidentification, misperception of separation and attachment to conditioned thought.

  Katie Davis

  Dream, Attachment, Essence

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• The absolute negative, the ultimate saying of no to the world, when it is just too late. And always the subtle conviction that if you had said No a moment earlier, it would none of it have happened. But the saying of no comes too late by a little. You are always a little too late in saying it.

  Don Berry

  Littles, Negative, Too Late

  Don Berry (1960). “Trask: A Novel”

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• True freedom starts with absolute honesty. The moment you call a problem by its real name, you’re already learning how to make it less harmful.

  Martha Beck

  Honesty, Real, Names

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• My history shouts the power of the blood of Jesus. My presence demonstrates the absolute love, affection and purpose of God for my life. My future is drawing me into a hope-filled life that has a purpose of saying, 'on earth as it is in Heaven.'

  Bill Johnson

  Jesus, Blood, Drawing

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