Best absolutes & ideals Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.”

Humans Ideas Real Belief Growing Personality Higher Ideals Eternity Absolutes Raises Developing Thirst Superhuman Coherence

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.”

World Mind Form Artist Order Beauty Principles Taken Particular Materials Pure Shadow Ideals Tradition Absolutes Harmony Mere Inspired Bounds Cosmos Idealism Defects Representing Platonic

Author:John Walford

“Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass.”

Ideals Perfection Absolutes Strive Decency Sanctity

Author:Austin O'Malley

“"There is one basis of science," says Descartes, "one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived is true." A profound psychological mistake. It is true only of formal logic, wherein the mind never quits the sphere of its first assumptions to pass out into the sphere of real existences; no sooner does the mind pass from the internal order to the external order, than the necessity of verifying the strict correspondence between the two becomes absolute. The Ideal Test must be supplemented by the Real Test, to suit the new conditions of the problem.”

“Let me also remind you that zero, like all of mathematics, is fictional and an idealization. It is impossible to reach absolute zero temperature or to get perfect vacuum. Luckily, mathematics is a fairyland where ideal and fictional objects are possible.”

Perfect Impossible Objects Ideals Let Me Absolutes Mathematics Zero Temperature Vacuums

Author:Doron Zeilberger

“The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.”

Wells May Real Individual Impossible Ideals Absolutes Individual Life

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

“It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater; not because the pleasure it gives (although very pure) is comparable, either in intensity or in the number of people who feel it, to that of music, but because it gives in absolute perfection that combination, characteristic of great art, of godlike freedom, with the sense of inevitable destiny; because, in fact, it constructs an ideal world where everything is perfect and yet true.”

Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

“All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract, ideal and absolute impermeability.”

Reality Might Space Ideals Absolutes Active Abstract Realism Skepticism Time And Space

Book:The collected works of Samuel Beckett

Source: The collected works of Samuel Beckett

“God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.”

Humans Real Taken Human Nature Divine Particular Ideals Absolutes

Author:Timothy Keller

“I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not created equal. In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers. Equal justice and equal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not have equal ability.”

Should Believe Humans Ends Facts Opportunity I Believe Justice Ability Evolution Equal Ideals Absolutes Injustice Abstract Equal Opportunity Pinnacle Rebound Equalizer Equal Justice

Author:Frank Herbert

“To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal. You require absolute control and professionalism.”

Willing Musician Ideals Absolutes Infinite Details Pursuit Smallest Outstanding Professionalism

Author:Yehudi Menuhin

“Men can have an obvious display of heroics or strength or accomplishment, but it is the unsung women throughout all ages of humankind who have endured with superlative strength, beauty and love, often with secret suffering, that deserve absolute respect and acknowlegement. They are the true heroes of humanity. They are the champions who have birthed and nurtured us, who have held us together at the most integral level, when men seemed intent only on tearing apart the fabric of life for irrelevant ideals.”

“The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.”

Used Force Justice Citizens Ideals Absolutes Pacifist Pacifism

Book:Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

“Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.”

“All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.”

Children Parent Moral Depends Behavior Ideals Essence Absolutes

Author:E. M. Forster

“Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.”

Source: The Jesus I Never Knew

“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 passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.”

Love Humans Passion Memories Animal Creation Ideals Absolutes Immortality Ephemeral Unimaginable

Author:George Santayana

“Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.”

Mind Ignorance Ideals Absolutes Folks Privilege Certainty Statistics Fanatics Unattainable Uneducated Absolute Certainty

Book:Mathematical Philosophy: A Study of Fate and Freedom; Lectures for Educated Laymen

Source: Mathematical Philosophy: A Study of Fate and Freedom; Lectures for Educated Laymen

“The Wise Man believes profoundly in silence - the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence - not a leaf, as it were, astire on the tree, not a ripple upon the surface of the shinning pool-his, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life. Silence is the cornerstone of character.”

Absolutes Quotes

Related topics

Absolutes Quotes