A Quotes
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“Absolute morality leads logically to absolute intolerance.”
“Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.”
Source: Trilogy of Death: Three Complete Novels
“Absolute “number” is numberless.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party.”
“Absolute peace in our world is an unattainable goal. But it is one towards which we must continue to journey, our eyes fixed on it as a traveller in a desert fixes his eyes on the one guiding star that will lead him to salvation.”
“Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.”
“Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action - here and now. It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself. Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect - whatever your idea of perfection may be. All you need is courage.”
“Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.”
“Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.”
“Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“Absolute power demoralizes.”
“Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”
“Absolute power doesn't corrupt, but rather, reveals character.”
“Absolute power instructs absolutely, kindergarten on.”
Source: We have our difference in common 2.
“Absolute power is absolute power, no matter what it's called.”
Source: Champion: A Legend Novel
“Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.”
“Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps in--the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.”
Source: Existential Psychotherapy
“Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!”
Source: Children of Dune
“Absolute self-sufficiency is a mental illness, you gotta be extremely selfish to be happy on your own.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.”
Source: Letters and Papers from Prison
“Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.”
“Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.”
“Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.”
Source: The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition
“Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.”
Source: When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight For Joy
“Absolute things are eternal and necessary. They are pure Being. Relative things are temporal and contingent. They belong to the order of Becoming. The material universe of space and time is Becoming. Light, however, is Being. Becoming exists within Being, as its construct. Matter exists within light. No one ever said, “Let there be light.” Light has always been, and always will be.”
Source: Ontological Mathematics Versus Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity
“Absolute time is eternity. (Eternity = Present)
AT = Et (AT = absolute time; Et = Eternity)
Absolute space is infinity.
AS = ∞
AT = ∞
AT + AS = ∞
∞ = 0
The Being, the Universe, is finite.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Absolute tolerance is altogether impossible; the allegedly absolute tolerance turns into ferocious hatred of those who have stated clearly and most forcefully that there are unchangeable standards founded in the nature of man and the nature of things.”
Source: Liberalism Ancient and Modern
“Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action.”
“Absolute trust is something hard to achieve even in a family, and it is much harder to achieve on an international level.”
“Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.”
“Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”
“Absolute truth is not dependent upon public opinion or popularity. Now what is this truth? It is His gospel. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
“Absolute truthfulness doesn't always achieve the most good.”
Source: Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction
“Absolute truths are as necessary as, if not more necessary than, the air we breathe.”
“Absolute truths are hard to come by, which is the basic premise of ‘hyper-perspectivism’. Rather, truths are always in the eyes of the beholder, truths are always observer-relative, truths are “made” by a “truth-maker.” You can approach our multifaceted reality from an incredibly large number of angles. Everything is perspectival, in other words, it all depends on your perspective, your frame of reference.”
Source: The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution
“Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.”
Source: Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin
“Absolute” velocity happens when the primary quality of all existence or the Universal Mind shows its power in action, being everywhere simultaneously, not only faster than the speed of light but at the absolute speed, that means omnipresence. On this level, time is absolute, and there is no relativity. Relativity of time is possible within the “visible” realm of reality and not in the manifestation (action) of the primary quality of a Universal Mind, which functions within the realm of Zero, securing omnipresence in the always-present time. Relativity of time is possible only if there are the past and the future, not the present. The present is Zero, and Zero is absolute.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Absolute” velocity happens when the primary quality of all existence or Universal Mind shows its power in action, being everywhere simultaneously, not only faster than the speed of light but at the absolute speed, which is omnipresence. On this level, the time is absolute, and there is no relativity. Relativity of time is possible within the "visible" realm of reality and not in the manifestation (action) of the primary quality of a Universal Mind. Primary quality functions within the realm of Zero, securing omnipresence in the eternal present. Eternity is an absolute present. Relativity of time is possible only if there are the past and the future, not the present. The present is frozen. The present is Zero, and Zero is absolute in its way.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.”
“Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“Absolute Void
Absolute void is not and cannot be curved. Without a void, there is no space. Then, what curves if, without the void, there is no space? The curvature of space is the curvature of the immaterial Being that appeared in the void, or enveloped void, and started transforming into something we consider and perceive as physical reality, although it is not physical. Based on our idea of the primary, secondary, and tertiary qualities only as modes of one base quality, we are conditioned, based on our apparatus of perception, to experience and feel the physical world, including curvature of space, as if it were physical, although it is not. The result is the same as if it were physical. The world is the life of the Universal Mind in action.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Absolute welfare corrupts absolutely.”
“Absolute, without the world or universe, is finite. When the Being is equal to the Nonbeing, the Absolute becomes the same—the Nonbeing. The World-Universe is possible only through the active relationship between the Being and the Nonbeing. The absolute potential of the Being and the Nonbeing is initiated and becomes the source of space and time (spacetime), as we understand it, and is the source of infinity as a never-ending potential. Absolute finiteness is infinity because both absolute finiteness and infinity are nothing.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.”
Source: Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World
“Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time is any sensible and external measure (precise or imprecise) of duration by means of motion; such as a measure-for example, an hour, a day, a month, a year-is commonly used instead of true time.”
Source: Newton: Philosophical Writings
“Absolute, unquestioning faith in God is the greatest method of instantaneous healing. An unceasing effort to arouse that faith is man's highest and most rewarding duty.”
Source: Self-realization
“Absolutely breathtaking, nail-biting, and edge-of-your-seat. Michael Koryta is a master at maintaining suspense and a hell of a good writer. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is one of the best chase-and-escape novels you’ll read this year-or any other year. The pace never lets up.”
“Absolutely committed to spending the rest of my life as a spokesman for the rights of European Americans.”
“Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, [the missionary William Elliot Griffis [1843-1928], the scientist Edward Sylvester Morse [1838-1925], and the writer Lafcadio Hearn], and then for the marvelous reconstruction of how Japan worked on their minds, radically changing their perceptions of the country and the whole relationship between East and West--between the barbarian and the civilized. The book is a tour de force.”
“Absolutely determined to ensure that Microsoft complies fully with the 2004 anti-trust decision.”