A Quotes
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“Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon.”
Source: A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings
“Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.”
Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything
“Absolute calm is not the law of ocean. And it is the same with the ocean of life.”
“Absolute can only exercise its potential and power in the infinite number of possibilities and universes or worlds it can transform into.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.”
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
“Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.”
Source: Mathematical Philosophy: A Study of Fate and Freedom; Lectures for Educated Laymen
“Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.”
“Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .”
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Absolute confidence, absolute arrogance: her best shields and most beloved masks.
“I hope His Majesty has a decent spread of food for me to eat while I’m being interrogated.”
“Watch your mouth or the only thing you’ll be eating is hot coals.”
“Do you actually make people do that?”
His eyes narrowed. “What kind of person do you take me for?”
“You are the Captain of the Guard of the most powerful man in the world. Wyrd knows what horrible things you’ve done to people.”
“You must be nervous as hell if you’re resorting to taunting me.”
“Absolute consciousness is manifest here in every circumstance of daily life because it is everywhere full and perfect. Consciousness is said to be the cause of all things because it is everywhere emergent as each manifest entity.”
“Absolute consciousness is the purity of our self-consciousness. There is no doubt we would achieve the truth consciousness, if we own the absolute consciousness.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“Absolute devotion to God leads to absolute joy!”
Source: Pawz and Pray: Finding Joy in the Journey with God, Family, and Furry Friends! 130 Inspiring Stories and Devotions for Dog Lovers
“Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.”
“Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.”
“Absolute equals nothingness.”
“Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic duties to society and who are compromised by our intellectually dubious commitment to virtue, which can be defined by the perpetual smear-word of French polemic: the bourgeois. (Bourgeois equals humanist.) This word has long been anathema in France where categories are part of the ruling notion of logique. The word cannot be readily matched in England or America.”
“Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.”
“Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“Absolute faith is not the place of self-affirmation, but the place of self-negation. Life of faith is not limited to our spiritual life. What is important is how our spiritual sensitivity is applied to our relative environment.”
“Absolute freedom comes when we make the choice to wake up and master our individual minds, bodies, hearts, and spirits. When we have this true freedom, we no longer act upon our impulsive thoughts or emotions. We gain the capability of controlling them within ourselves, which unlocks our greatest potential to create, transmute, and transcend the Mundane reality.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.”
“Absolute freedom doesn't exist and never did. Just as we don't spit on the floor at work, swear at customers, or send out letters full of misspellings, so too we might have to 'watch our language.' It is odd that the request for unbiased language in schools and workplaces is considered intolerable when other limits on our freedom to do whatever we want are not.”
“Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.”
“Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.”
Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“Absolute freedom means absolute lawlessness.”
“Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization; men are born free, and need never be in chains. Man may achieve liberty and abundance, freedom and civilization.”
“Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.”
Source: Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President
“Absolute freedom requires absolute responsibility.”
“absolute freedome doesn't exist, what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself that decision”
“Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but after a time it becomes tedious.”
Source: Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular
“Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.”
“Absolute hope that can break through any despair can never lose in a place like this!”
“Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.”
Source: A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good
“Absolute humility [param vinaya] is a part of pragna [the power of the soul and soul’s representative]. Absolute humility should be maintained till complete God realization [Bhagwan no dhatu milap] occurs.”
Source: Pratikraman (Abr.)
“Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.”
Source: Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president
“Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.”
Source: The Sun Watches the Sun
“Absolute is always the same, yet always new. Its sameness is the source of its variety. Its sameness and oneness (singularity) make it omnipotent and rejuvenating. Its infinite age makes it infinitely young. It cannot be born or die, but it can live. The ultimate exit of the Absolute is life. Its meaning is life, not absoluteness. It already possesses absoluteness, but its absoluteness is its biggest enemy if it becomes satisfied with it because it transforms it into nothingness. It must fight against its absoluteness to gain the absolute value of life, which, although relative, provides meaning and purpose.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Absolute is infinitesimal, almost nonexistent “materially.” It is smaller than any conceivable shape or object, smaller than a quark, not even the size of the Planck length. In its volume, every divided world and Everything inhabited by emptiness is “bigger” than the Absolute. But only this nothing, emptiness, makes the life of the Absolute possible. If the One is undivided, it is without motion; the power becomes a weakness because it is without an exit.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Absolute’ is meant “Allah”, “God” and “Brahma”. These are the different terminology of the same and one Absolute .”
“Absolute justice demands that mens incomes and rewards should ... vary, and that some have more than others-so long as human justice is upheld by the provision of equal opportunity for all.”
“Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“Absolute kindness will weaken your soul. Sometimes the power within yourself to do evil deeds.”
“Absolute knowledge is only possible when you know the Absolute Truth and to have the Absolute Truth you have to go to the Absolute Being within you which is your Spirit. So, it gives you the truth, it gives you the collective consciousness. The main thing is that you become extremely peaceful personality, you become peace, you emit peace.”
“Absolute Knowledge (Kevalgnan) can never be attained without the domain of non-violence (ahinsa). Full awareness will not be attained without non-violence (ahinsa).”
Source: Non-Violence: Ahimsa
“Absolute laws of parenting do not exist. Each child is different, in personality, time, age, health and geography. They have different strengths and weaknesses for which we need nuanced responses. There is never one specific word, sentence or response that will always work. There are however, principles of parenting behaviour that we can rely on in most circumstances”
Source: What Do I Do Now? The basics of parenting babies ... without stress
“absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.”
“Absolute means Universal or fixed. So I think nothing is fixed and universal in Conscious manner. But I also think everything is fixed and universal via Unconscious state of our mind and Nature.
In this case Practically , We are living world of Relativism via Absolute means. I mean every thing is made from atom. Everything have same roots. This is Universal. Every body are related with each other and depends on each other. From this we can say this world is more relativity centric then that of absolute.
In other hand, everything have it is starting point and ending point. Even time have it's starting time and ending time. But universal time is constant. It is neither fast nor slow. Nor it have past , present or future.
And for absolute, All the thing that are made , manufacture in this world are made from atom. This is Absolute.”
“Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.”
Source: Essays moral, political, and literary. (Life of the author, etc.).
“Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.”