“All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.” NeedsScienceAbsolutesRegardNo Fear Author:Franz Kafka
“Do you call it doubting to write down on a piece of paper that you doubt? If so, doubt has nothing to do with any serious business. But do not make believe; if pedantry has not eaten all the reality out of you, recognize, as you must, that there is much that you do not doubt, in the least. Now that which you do not at all doubt, you must and do regard as infallible, absolute truth.” IfsWritingBelieveRealityDoubtPiecesSeriousPaperAbsolutesRegardSkepticismInfallibleMake BelieveAbsolute TruthSerious BusinessPedantry Book:Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance) Source: Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)
“Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.” FaithFreedomResponsibilityLibertyMoralKnowledgeParticularSolutionsMarkAbsolutesRegardProfoundFinalsIncludingSocialismResistanceLiberalismSkepticismImperativesInsistenceIdeologues Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
“As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.” PoliticalAttitudeFieldsAbsolutesRegardDoctrineOppositionFascism Author:Benito Mussolini
“I was always around people who were in the business from the time I was an absolute baby. I grew up in New York City, and my parents, my sister, and I had a house on Fire Island, and they were part of a set of people that were all close and friendly, most of whom were involved in show business in one regard or another. So it was always familiar to me, and I kind of enjoyed it.” PeopleKindShowsHouseParentCitiesFireNew YorkBabyGrewInvolvedGrew UpAbsolutesRegardFamiliarEnjoyedIslandsFriendlyNew York CityMy SisterShow Business Author:Fred Melamed
“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.” IfsWaySelfProblemSufferingProcessUnderstandingAbsolutesRegardReleaseRealizationSelflessnessNo ProblemInterconnected Author:Robert Thurman
“I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.” SelfAbsolutesRegardIslamSimplicityObstaclesMissionsConvincedDevotionIntenseFollowersTrust In GodHusseinPledgeFearlessness Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there, then, between God and primogenial chaos? Isn't affirming God's absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist?” FirstsDoeLastsChoicesDifferencesAtheismAbsolutesRegardChaosConclusionLast TimeTheologicalDemonstratingAffirmingOmnipotenceFirsts And LastsAbsolute Freedom Author:Umberto Eco
“Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.” ThinkingWayBelievePersonsDifferentSelfTruthTurnsHuman NatureAbsolutesRegardFellowsThreatMonstersWay Of ThinkingDegradeAbsolute Truth Author:Octavio Paz
“Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.” DoeEarthHeavenLibertyEconomicEconomicsLet MeAbsolutesRegardTyrannyVersionsSuspectsHeaven On EarthAbsolute Power Author:Barry Goldwater
“Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.” WritingTwoRealTalentAbsolutesRegardSeriousness Author:Ernest Hemingway
“The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas. It possesses absolute liberty and unrivalled courage among religions with regard to the facts to be observed and the diverse hypotheses it has laid down for their coordination. Never having been hampered by a priestly order, each man has been entirely free to search wherever he pleased for the spiritual explanation of the spectacle of the universe.” MenDoeHas BeensIdeasFactsSpiritualSpiritOrderUniverseLibertyAbsolutesRegardExplanationDiverseHypothesisCoordinationPreconceived Ideas Author:Romain Rolland