Best absolutes & sides 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

“It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating for people seeking absolute faith, but for me it gives religion an ambidextrous quality that suits my temperament.”

People Giving Hands Culture Sides Quality Absolutes Seeking Suits Frustrating Temperament Ambidextrous

Book:The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey Between Worlds

Source: The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey Between Worlds

“All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.”

“Abraham Lincoln was, in my judgment, in many respects, the grandest man ever President of the United States. Upon his monument these words should be written: "Here sleeps the only man in the history of the world who, having been clothed with almost absolute power, never abused it, except upon the side of mercy."”

Men World Should States Sides President Sleep United United States Written Judgment Mercy Absolutes World History Monument Abraham Absolute Power

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“God does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us an ounce is an ounce, and a pound a pound. God's measure is the heart of the offender,--a balance which varies with every one of us, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.”

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Author:James Russell Lowell

“The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong - and no consideration or discussion of the issues is necessary or appropriate.”

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Author:Ayn Rand

“Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of our work as much as they detest most of our politics. Instead of rationally debating subjects like abortion or gay rights, they condemn as immoral those who favor choice and tolerance. They disown their own dark side and magnify everyone else's until, at the extreme, doctors are murdered in the name of protecting life. I wonder, who is this God they invoke, who is so petty and mean? Is God really against gun control and food stamps for poor children?”

“So the dream is continually reminding us of the part which our conscious is forgetting. It does not speak with any absolute authority; it simply gives a true picture of a situation which exists in the unconscious. It speaks truth; but not, as some persons believe, the truth. It shows the other side.”

Giving Believe Persons Doe Shows Dream Speak Sides Forget Situation Authority Conscious Absolutes Unconscious Speak The Truth Reminding

Author:Frances G. Wickes

“I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question.”

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Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie.”

Doe Seems Sides Trouble Middle Absolutes Towns Pie Cherries Homemade Cherry Pie

Book:On call: political essays

Source: On call: political essays

“Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.”

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Author:Ezra Pound

“Now my playmates never failed to wink and smile mockingly at me when one of them called 'Man flies!' for at the word I would always lift my finger very high, as a sign of absolute conviction; and I refused with energy to pay the forfeit. The more they laughed at me, the happier I was, hoping that some day the laugh would be on my side.”

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Author:Alberto Santos-Dumont

“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except upon the side of mercy.”

People Ifs Knows Men Giving Real Character Use Wish Easy Sides Bears Glory Weak Tests Mercy Absolutes Adversity Supreme Gentle Absolute Power Real Character Use Of Power

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side.”

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes

“A veil hangs between the two opposites, a mere slip of a thing that is transparent to warn us or comfort us. You hate now but look through this veil and see the possibility of love; you're sad now but look through to the other side and see happiness. Absolute composure to a complete mess - it happens so quickly, all in the blink of an eye.”

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Author:Cecelia Ahern

“For reasons he couldn’t understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other side of the dirt road, her eyes pools of absolute sorrow, her light brown hair glowing in the splinters of sunlight that forced their way through the trees.”

Way Reason Light Eye Girl Sides Saws Tree Sadness Hair Sorrow Standing Absolutes Brown Pool Sunlight Dirt Her Eyes Glowing Splinters Brown Hair Dirt Roads

Book:Jellicoe Road

Source: Jellicoe Road

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