Best absolutes & impossible Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.”

Men Trying Order Universe Impossible Absolutes Certainty Uniforms Packs Probability Whips Absolute Certainty

Author:Jack Vance

“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)

“The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue, and tenderness that's impossible to put down until you've reached the last page. An absolute triumph!”

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Author:Tasha Alexander

“It has often been argued that absolute scepticism is self-contradictory; but this is a mistake: and even if it were not so, it would be no argument against the absolute sceptic, inasmuch as he does not admit that no contradictory propositions are true. Indeed, it would be impossible to move such a man, for his scepticism consists in considering every argument and never deciding upon its validity; he would, therefore, act in this way in reference to the arguments brought against him.”

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Book:The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)

Source: The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)

“It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.”

Source: Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma

“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.”

Men Turns Impossible Standards Hatred Absolutes Tolerance Nature Of Man Unchangeable

Book:Liberalism Ancient and Modern

Source: Liberalism Ancient and Modern

“One, we [with Alison McGhee] laugh a lot - that was great. Two, I enjoy writing, but it's a lonely undertaking. To have someone in the room with me is an absolute delight and makes it seem less impossible. It became a kind of comforting, joyful process.”

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Author:Kate DiCamillo

“Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.”

Source: The Portable Graham Greene

“The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.”

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Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.”

Believe Has Beens Impossible Loneliness Discovery Absolutes

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now intellectually, atheists continue to breathe - they continue to use reason and draw scientific conclusions [which assumes an orderly universe], to make moral judgments [which assumes absolute values] - but the atheistic view of things would in theory make such 'breathing' impossible. They are breathing God's air all the time they are arguing against him.”

“How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or higher form that she can appeal to, or be reconciled with, or that can forgive her. There is nothing outside her. In her imagination she has set the limits and the terms. No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists. It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point. The attempt was all.”

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Author:Ian Mcewan

“A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with the assumption that there are spheres of thought in which it is impossible to conceive of absolute truth existing independently of the values and position of the subject and unrelated to the social context.”

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Author:Karl Mannheim

“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

“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 regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the regularity with which events prove that we are of too limited vision. And it always seems to be those who have the fullest opportunity to know who are the most limited in view. What, then, is the trouble? I think that one answer should be: we do not realize sufficiently that the unknown is absolutely infinite, and that new knowledge is always being produced.”

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Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.”

Earth Friendship Compassion Accepting Kindness Fire Impossible Sky Cry Demand Eternal Absolutes Compromise Eternal Life After Death Springtime Friendship Love Life After Death

Author:Albert Camus

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