Best absolutes & problem Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.”

Problem Together Sides Realizing Too Much Absolutes Relative Units Precise No Problem Theoretical Absolute Truth Relative Truth

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburgh’s empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore.”

Problem Night Pleasure Mystery Streets Shapes Summer Ordinary Rain Empty Absolutes Luminous Skates Odor Pittsburgh Maple Summer Rain Empty Streets

Book:The Dance Most of All: Poems

Source: The Dance Most of All: Poems

“"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.”

“We have more than two options. A critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power. Our problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others.”

Doe Two Reason Problem Lying Values Quality Return Function Absolutes Treatment Superstitions Balanced Arbitrary Positively Critique Obsessive Two Options

Author:John Ralston Saul

“To think out a problem is not unlike drawing a caricature. You have to exaggerate the salient point and leave out that which is not typical. "To illustrate a principle ," says Bagehot , "you must exaggerate much and you must omit much." As to the quantity of absolute truth in a thought : it seems to me the more comprehensive and unobjectionable a thought becomes, the more clumsy and unexciting it gets. I like half-truths of a certain kind they are interesting and they stimulate.”

Thinking Kind Problem Seems Certain Interesting Half Principles Absolutes Drawing Quantity Typical Comprehensive Clumsy Caricatures Absolute Truth Half Truth

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect. They know that basic human problems can have no final solutions, that our freedom, justice, equality, etc. are far from absolute, and that the good life is compounded of half measures, compromises, lesser evils, and gropings toward the perfect. The rejection of approximations and the insistence on absolutes are the manifestation of a nihilism that loathes freedom, tolerance, and equity.”

“What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant enthusiasts are persuaded that they alone have access to the truth, and that the rest of us are infidels, we remain under threat. Lord Acton's famous phrase about power can be used of another danger. Dogma tends to corrupt, and absolute dogma corrupts absolutely.”

Long Problem Used Religious Numbers Lord Atheism Danger Concern Absolutes Threat Positive Atheism Access Phrases Dogma Fanaticism Alarms Large Numbers Militant Infidel

Author:Anthony Storr

“Deep down in your heart know that all is well. Understand that the Universe is your friend and can never hurt you. It is the substratum of all existence which is love! When you develop a loving consciousness there can be no problems. Love takes care of everything. Love is the same as absolute awareness, pure intelligence, or the power of God. When you have enough love inside, there are truly no problems. Problems only arise when you believe you are separate and lacking love.”

“we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.”

Made Problem Today Moral Morality Absolutes Extraordinary Patient Medical Yesterday Sinner Transition Relativism Moral Relativism

Author:Ellen Goodman

“And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal and by the singleness of its purpose.”

Problem Purpose Choices Moral Sea Land Security Absolutes Appeals Presenting Unrest Singleness

Book:Twixt Land and Sea

Source: Twixt Land and Sea

“Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.”

People Trying Problem Government Force Absolutes Police Barbarism Firing

Author:Sheikh Hasina

“I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter.”

Ifs Thinking Problem Would Be Life Is Regret Terrible Fame Daughter Absolutes Prize Catastrophe Deserving Nobel Nobel Prize Life Regret Having A Daughter Deserving It

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the victim of this degradation. Not only is the material environment becoming a permanent menace - pollution and refuse, new illness and absolute destructive capacity - but the human framework is no longer under man's control, thus creating an environment for tomorrow which may well be intolerable. This is a wide-ranging social problem which concerns the entire human family.”

“Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.”

Problem Reality Belief Risk Products Civilization Solutions Illusion Absolutes Management Determined Organized Application Expertise Risk Management

Author:Voltaire

“True freedom starts with absolute honesty. The moment you call a problem by its real name, you’re already learning how to make it less harmful.”

Real Moments Problem Names Honesty Absolutes True Freedom

Author:Martha Beck

“The pet food recall, which was after all just about pets, and treated as if it were an inconsequential matter, was an absolute forerunner of what's going on in China, where 50,000 infants have been sickened because of a contaminated infant formula. So these things are all closely related. You cannot separate the food supply for pets, farm animals, and people, and you cannot separate problems in one area of a country from problems in another area.”

People Ifs Has Beens Country Matter Problem Animal Areas Absolutes China Treated Related Pet Farms Formulas Recalls Infant Inconsequential Food Supply Forerunners Pet Food

Author:Marion Nestle

“You look at the absolute scorn that gets poured on a fallen celebrity, whether it's Tom Cruise or Lindsay Lohan or Marlon Brando, or Elvis when he got fat. They're not allowed the dignity of ordinary failure. And I think that plays into people's notions about Los Angeles, too. It's not allowed to be a regular city with problems.”

People Thinking Looks Play Problem Cities Ordinary Dignity Absolutes Notion Fats Fallen Los Angeles Toms Scorn Cruise Brando

Author:Matthew Specktor

“The idea that somehow "no self, no problem"- I don't exist because I don't have a self- would be a mistaken understanding. However, the selflessness teaching is not that hard to understand. What it means is a type of self that people feel they have, like a fixed, unchanging identity. Either they know they have it, or for some, they feel they need to seek it, and possibly have an experience where they feel like they found something. That type of fixed, unchanging, essential self, or absolute self doesn't exist. That's what "no self" means.”

People Knows Needs Feels Mean Ideas Self Hard Problem Would Be Found Understanding Teaching Identity Type Essentials Absolutes Fixed Mistaken Selflessness No Problem Unchanging

Author:Robert Thurman

“So that's the process of understanding, and through that process, if you have a deep realization of the selflessness in regard to your absolute self, then it releases your relational self to be happily interconnected with everything in a blissful way. Then you yourself have "no problem" in the sense of no suffering. You reach Nirvana.”

Ifs Way Self Problem Suffering Process Understanding Absolutes Regard Release Realization Selflessness No Problem Interconnected

Author:Robert Thurman

“However, because of your interconnectedness with all things, other beings still have a problem, and when you realize that you have no absolute self apart from things, you realize that essentially, you are all the other beings.”

Stills Self Problem Realizing All Things Absolutes Interconnectedness

Author:Robert Thurman

“We [US] are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute. This is another issue where hopefully we will take a long-term approach which, even though we sometimes have a hard time doing that, it's easier for us, as a rich country with this kind of scientific depth, than it is for the poor countries who will suffer the problems.”

“When the problems in Libya started, the African Union set up a committee to address the situation. We urgently advised the Europeans not to intervene. You have done so anyway. Now we are seeing absolute chaos there.”

Done Problem Situation Seeing Absolutes Unions Chaos Addresses Committees Libya African Union

Author:Yoweri Museveni

“My goal is to try to weaponize the American people, try to weaponize the conservative movement, try to weaponize the underground conservative Hollywood movement, to weaponize as many people in the center-right country to try to rectify a generation-plus long problem that has been absolute media bias, absolute media used by the Democratic Party as a tool to defeat conservatives.”

“Everybody was cratered after Copenhagen. If the movie had worked the way that it should have, if it had been scripted by Holywood, the world would have come together and addressed the biggest problem it ever had faced and delegates would have embraced each other, and it all would have been a good happy scene instead of the complete farce and debacle that it turned into - maybe in certain ways, an absolute low point for human diplomacy.”

Ifs World Way Should Humans Has Beens Problem Together Certain Scene Lows Should Have Absolutes Diplomacy Delegates Farce Copenhagen Low Points Debacles

Author:Bill McKibben

“When I am asked, "What, in your view, is the worst human rights problem in the world today?" I reply: "Absolute poverty." This is not the answer most journalists expect. It is neither sexy nor legalistic. But it is true.”

World Humans Problem Today Answers Views Poverty Rights Worst Absolutes Human Rights Sexy Journalist World Today

Author:Mary Robinson

“We live in a world of absolute immediacy. It is an interconnected, combustible world, where technology and many other actions have given nonstate actors a reach, into countries and societies, for both good and evil, that we have never seen before. So it isn't a matter of just state versus state challenges or conflict. The bigger problem is nonstate actors.”

World Country Matter States Problem Action Evil Actors Given Challenges Technology Conflict Bigger Absolutes Good And Evil Versus Interconnected Immediacy Bigger Problems

Author:Chuck Hagel

“Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has defined the natural shape of his story is just this: After reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.”

Way Doe Made Two Stories Problem Seems Form Reading Realizing Imagination Natural Silence Four Imagine Shapes Findings Tests Bases Absolutes Finals Defined Orange

Author:Truman Capote

“What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the way you view a movie after you've read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. Why? You've read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He's not only read your story...he wrote it.”

Source: One God, One Plan, One Life: A 365 Devotional

“The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one's peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad.”

People Ifs Mean Persons Problem Political Attention Draws Logic Mark Absolutes Doctrine Manners Awkward Peril Political Correctness Correctness Reactionaries Offence

Author:Lynne Truss

“he'd know that I think that . . . well, that bending an enemy's will through military force is the absolute last way a nation ought to go about solving their problems.”

Thinking Knows Way Wells Problem Lasts Force Nations Enemy Military Ought Absolutes Bending Military Force

Author:Meg Cabot

“I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.”

Should Problem Able School Choices Belief My Own Seeing Needed Decided Horse Absolutes Mood Handle Buying Graduates Psychiatrist Graduate School

Book:An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“In this office we do not have problems. We have interesting developments. We have challenges. If we absolute must we may, on occasion, have a slight difficulty. But under no circumstances whatsoever do we have problems.”

Ifs May Problem Challenges Interesting Development Circumstances Office Difficulty Absolutes Occasions

Author:Karen Miller

“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.”

“The mystery of life is certainly the most persistent problem ever placed before the thought of man. There is no doubt that from the time humanity began to think it has occupied itself with the problem of its origin and its future which undoubtedly is the problem of life. The inability of science to solve it is absolute. This would be truly frightening were it not for faith.”

Thinking Men Problem Would Be Science Life Is Faith Humanity Doubt Mystery Solutions Absolutes Solve No Doubt Frightening Inability Persistent Mystery Of Life

Author:Guglielmo Marconi

“Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such as life and consciousness. People seem to want there to be an absolute threshold between the living and the nonliving, and between the thinking and the "merely mechanical," ... But the onward march of science seems to force us ever more clearly into accepting intermediate levels of such properties.”

“If you think about the impact of climate change, [it should be how] a doctor would deal with the problem. A scientific hypothesis is tested to absolute destruction, but medicine can't wait. If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can't wait for [endless] tests. He has to act on what is there. The risk of delay is so enormous that we can't wait until we are absolutely sure the patient is dying.”

“As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or, for that matter, to any problems.”

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