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“In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.”

“There are a few absolute no-brainer rules in my world. Real close to the top of this list is: if an Unseelie prince runs from it, I'm going to run from it, too. [said Dani]”

Ifs World Said Real Running Fear Absolutes Lists No Brainer

Author:Karen Marie Moning

“You can’t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you —- in absolute, complete, and total earnest. Do you know why? Because they’re lonely. The past and memories are very lonely things. I don’t believe in God. Because he doesn’t have a fixed form. The past certainly does exist, even in a world where the future doesn’t have a fixed form. Even if it’s being colored by misunderstandings and delusions, a person’s past can’t be anything but the truth as long as he believes in it. If that’s what you base your actions or your way of life on, isn’t that like being god?”

Ifs Knows World Way Believe Persons Long Doe Running Action Past Form Memories Lonely Absolutes Don't Believe Fixed Delusion Do You Know Believe In God Running Away Misunderstanding Earnest

Author:Ryohgo Narita

“I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and read in the afternoon. Demons don’t like fresh air - they prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet; for a person who is as chaotic as me, who struggles to be in control, it is an absolute necessity to follow these rules and routines. If I let myself go, nothing will get done.”

Ifs Writing Persons Done Three Hours Walks Struggle Air Feet Cold Bed Absolutes Demon Breakfast Lunch Afternoon Chaotic Fresh Air Cold Feet

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.”

Ifs Men Doe Matter Action History Plans Military Revolution Absolutes Have Faith Rebellious Cuban Revolution

Author:Fidel Castro

“If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.”

Ifs Years Would Be Absolutes Revolutionary Ardent Absolute Power

Book:NASI-onalisme ?

Source: NASI-onalisme ?

“But the absolute worst was when people asked if I was okay. Because then I had to admit that it was real, it happened, and we weren't together anymore.”

People Ifs Real Together Happened Worst Okay Absolutes

Book:Take Me There

Source: Take Me There

“I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men are given absolute freedom to think what they want to think and say what they want to say. I am against any man and any organization which seeks to limit or deny that freedom... [and] the superior man can be sure of freedom only if it is given to all men.”

“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion.”

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.”

People Ifs Believe Motivational Spiritual Certain Belief Powerful Impossible Confidence Absolutes Including Accomplish Certainty Absolute Certainty

Author:Tony Robbins

“It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth”

Ifs Inspirational Motivational Actors Difficult Acting Impossible Demand Happenings Absolutes Cameras Instruments Get Away Severe Penetrate Absolute Truth

Book:Elia Kazan: A Life

Source: Elia Kazan: A Life

“We have had philosophies, we have ideologies, we have so many kinds of enterprises but despite that there are so many differences and the differences are having larger and larger gaps. If it is the truth, it has to be the truth for everyone. Everyone has to say: "This is The Truth". But it has to be the Absolute Truth. If it is not the Absolute Truth than what we believe into is not the reality. And this is the main reason why everything in the name of God, Divinity, everything has failed so far because it is not substantiated by reality.”

Ifs Love Believe Kind Reason Philosophy Wisdom Reality Spirit Names Differences Meditation Yoga Absolutes Despite Ideology Reason Why Wellness Enterprise Divinity Gaps Absolute Truth

Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“If one introspects and says with humility of heart: "I do not yet know the truth, but I have to find it" , then in time this humility may be rewarded and one may achieve one's ascent. If this happens, the persons attention comes into the center, neither on the left, nor on the right. That is, neither dominated by his conditionings from the past nor the orientations of his ambitious ego. Such a balanced person is very well suited for Self Realization, by which he will know the truth in its absolute form.”

“Now by knowing absolute truth you understand each other much more. That means a collective consciousness, a new dimension in your awareness. You can feel others on your finger tips and if you know how to correct your centers you can help them. Then who is the other? The microcosm becomes the macrocosm.”

“At the very outset I have to tell you that truth is what it is. You cannot mold it, you cannot change it. It is always the same. It has been the same, it is the same, it will be the same. But to say that we know the truth and that we have the truth is really a self-deception. If you had known the absolute truth there would have been no problems and everybody would have said the same thing. There would be no discussions, no arguments, no fights and wars. But when we don't know the absolute truth then we can find out our own mental conceptions as the truth. But this mind is so limited.”

“I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!"”

Ifs Men Dies Written Fool Personality Absolutes Aging Assessment Tombstone

Book:My works and days: a personal chronicle

Source: My works and days: a personal chronicle

“Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that we avoid unhappiness. All forms of misery are heralded by a frame of mind that must become immediately recognizable if we are ever to gain mastery in happiness...Take the time to look in your heart and be clear. Walk through life being clear. Practice doing each thing in peace.”

Ifs Mind Looks Heart Happiness Form Passion Peace Walks Watches Practice Clear Conflict Gains Absolutes Misery Core Unhappiness Mastery Frame Of Mind

Author:Hugh Prather

“It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never conceive a question without an idea which invites an answer. I consider it, therefore, an absolute principle that experiments must always be devised in view of a preconceived idea, no matter if the idea be not very clear nor very well defined.”

Ifs Wells Said Ideas Matter Science Answers Views Principles Clear Impossible Absolutes Experiments Defined Invites Devising Preconceived Ideas

Book:An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

“The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually brought into conformity with the facts by the painful process of selection,-for intuition runs equally into truth and into error, and can settle nothing if not controlled by experience,-we gain vastly in our command over our environment. This is the fundamental value of natural science”

Source: The Sense of Beauty

“English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.”

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series

“All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.”

Ifs Doe Lying Praying Absolutes Stealing Dishonesty

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.”

Ifs Men Action Suffering Lost Loses Mistake Quality Courage Four Failing Conditions Regret Fool Battle Respect Accounts Absolutes Defeat Wide Awake Fulfilled Assurance Pitiful Wide Awake

Author:Carlos Castaneda

“Sarcastic Science, she would like to know, In her complacent ministry of fear, How we propose to get away from here When she has made things so we have to go Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show Us how by rocket we may hope to steer To some star off there, say, a half light-year Through temperature of absolute zero? Why wait for Science to supply the how When any amateur can tell it now? The way to go away should be the same As fifty million years ago we came- If anyone remembers how that was I have a theory, but it hardly does.”

“The inviolability of the person which is a reflection of the absolute inviolability of God, finds its primary and fundamental expression in the inviolability of human life. Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights-for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture- is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination.”

“Contentment is the door to god. If one is contented, one has already arrived. And the meaning of contentment is absolute acceptance as you are. Contentment means acceptance, discontentment means non-acceptance. A wants to become B - that is discontent. A is perfectly happy in being A, there is no desire to become B - that is contentment.”

Ifs Want Mean Desire Doors Acceptance Absolutes Contentment Discontent Discontentment

Author:Rajneesh

“Whatever you choose you will repent because the other will remain and haunt you. If one needs absolute freedom then choiceless awareness is the only thing.”

Ifs Needs Awareness Absolutes You Choose Repent Absolute Freedom

Author:Rajneesh

“If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God??”

Ifs Doe Humor Funny Belief Absolutes Superstitions Badass Absolute Power Power Corrupts Power Corruption Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

Author:George Deacon

“There is nothing absolute and final. If everything were ironclad, all the rules absolute and everything structured so no paradox or irony existed, you couldn't move. One could say that man sneaks through the crack where paradox exists.”

Ifs Men Spiritual Moving Absolutes Structure Finals Irony Paradox Cracks Sneak Standing Still Absolution Breaking Rules Ironclads

Book:A Brief Tour of Higher Consciousness: A Cosmic Book on the Mechanics of Creation

Source: A Brief Tour of Higher Consciousness: A Cosmic Book on the Mechanics of Creation

“If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.”

Ifs World Looks Bigs Would Be Science Energy Environment Serious Scientist Absolutes Climate Climate Change Disagreement Basics Lunacy

Author:Nicholas Stern

“How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an ethical absolute. A person whose idea of what is proper varies from day to day can be admired for his broadmindedness, but not for his virtue.”

Ifs Persons Ideas Teach Virtue Ethics Absolutes Ethical Day To Day Vary Relativity Broadmindedness

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no great secret in photography...schools are a bunch of crap. You just need practice and application of what you've learned. My absolute conviction is that if you are working reasonably well the only important thing is to keep shooting...it doesn't matter whether you are making money or not. Keep working, because as you go through the process of working things begin to happen.”

“It would be nonsense to say that it was not in the interests of a stone to be kicked along the road...A stone has no interests because it cannot suffer. The capacity for suffering and enjoyment is, however, not only necessary, but also sufficient for us to say that a being has interests - at an absolute minimum, an interest in not suffering. A mouse, for example, does have an interest in not being kicked along the road because it will suffer if it is.”

Ifs Doe Would Be Suffering Interest Animal Example Capacity Stones Absolutes Liberation Sufficient Enjoyment Nonsense Minimum Mice Animal Liberation

Author:Peter Singer

“Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality.”

Ifs Reality Hate Fall Passion Grows Growing Flower Regret Absolutes Attraction Weed Manifest Don't Hate Don't Regret Repulsion Attraction And Repulsion

Book:Flowers Fall: A Commentary on Dōgen's Genjōkōan

Source: Flowers Fall: A Commentary on Dōgen's Genjōkōan

“I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity as absolute and palpable as if Congress had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image.”

Ifs Persons Law Fall Worship Absolutes Down And Congress Punishment Golden Nationalism Falling Down Discharge Prosecution

Book:Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States

“I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am for the separation of the state and economics, just as we had separation of state and church, which led to peaceful coexistence among different religions...so the same applies to economics. If you separate the government from economics, if you do not regulate production and trade, you will have peaceful cooperation, and harmony and justice among men.”

“There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from living in this world, then if we wish to live, we cannot exempt ourselves from using the world. If we cannot exempt ourselves from use, then we must deal with the issues raised by use. And so the second law is that if we want to continue living, we cannot exempt use from care.”

Ifs World Want Firsts Two Use Care Law Wish Inspiring Deals Issues This World Absolutes Raised

Author:Wendell Berry

“In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.”

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am I to suffer it?”

Ifs Thinking World Believe War Suffering House I Believe Break Cases Support Murder Absolutes Property Treasure Thieves Offensive Kill Me National Defense

Author:Thomas Paine

“Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.”

Ifs Science Nature Lines Existence Known Absolutes Mathematics Math Circles Magnitude Straight Lines

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.”

Ifs Whole Dark Acting Tomorrow Shots Tools Absolutes Nails Belts Hammers Banging

Author:Matt LeBlanc

“Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing the prophet - who was only another male mammal - is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible warning and proof of an aggressive intent.”

Ifs Humans Wells Art Form Offers Claims Prejudice Absolutes Dancing Islam Males Alcohol Proof Prophet Warning Aggressive Representing Prohibition Pork Mammals Human Form

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.”

Ifs Two Different Might Film Hours Pay Vision Minutes Genius Absolutes Sticks Mediocrity

Author:Kim Cattrall

“Devotion is the essence of the path, and if we have in mind nothing but the guru and feel nothing but fervent devotion, whatever occurs is perceived as his blessing. If we simply practice with this constantly present devotion, this is prayer itself. When all thoughts are imbued with devotion to the guru, there is a natural confidence that this will take care of whatever may happen. All forms are the guru, all sounds are prayer, and all gross and subtle thoughts arise as devotion. Everything is spontaneously liberated in the absolute nature, like knots untied in the sky.”

Ifs Feels Mind May Happens Care Form Sound Natural Prayer Practice Path Sky Blessing Essence Absolutes Take Care Arise Devotion Subtle Gross Guru Liberated Knots Fervent

Author:Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

“I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through a man's neck. Caravaggio gave all the feeling to the man. Apparently, he couldn't imagine a woman to have a single thought. I wanted to paint her thoughts, if such a thing were possible - determination and concentration and belief in the absolute necessity of the act. The fate of her people resting on her shoulders.”

People Ifs Men Feelings Wanted Remember Belief Fate Imagine He Man Determination Absolutes Paint Shoulders Necks Concentration Disappointed Passive Papa Being Disappointed

Author:Susan Vreeland

“If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.”

Ifs Men Enough Dream Water Imagination Loss Silence Wonder Fantasy Forever Capacity Weak Absolutes Tired Ancient Perceive Sufficient Abandon Marvelous Console

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and their Governors shall be so weak or so wicked, as for the sake of keeping their places, to be made the instruments in putting them in execu tion, who will presume to say that the people have not a right, or that it is not their indispensible duty to God and their Country, by all rational means in their power to RESIST THEM.”

People Ifs Mean Made Country America Law Duty Weak Absolutes Instruments Sake Supreme Rational Ministers Wicked Instruction Governors Colony Duty To God

Author:Samuel Adams

“If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one’s language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.”

Ifs Left Language Teach Conditions Humility Perspective Absolutes Lifetime Oneself Isolation Exile Accelerate

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.”

Ifs Humans Evil Human Beings Absolutes Phenomenon

Book:The Shockwave Rider

Source: The Shockwave Rider

“Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of mastery of the world, it has an infinite number of facets, the vincula that connect man with his vital activity; and even if the path towards knowledge is unending, no step that takes man nearer to a full understanding of the meaning of his existence can be too small to count.”

Ifs Men World Age Law Understanding Numbers Existence Steps Path Subjects Creation Activity Absolutes Infinite Aim Artistic Related Mastery Facets Unending Artistic Creation

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“Anything I shouldn't laugh at makes me laugh. I mean, I'm bad at that, when somebody is singing something terribly and I'm thinking to myself, 'If I laugh now, this is the absolute worst thing I could ever do,' and then I start laughing and I can't stop.”

Ifs Thinking Mean I Can Laughing Worst Singing Absolutes Worst Things Make Me Laugh

Author:Simon Cowell

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