Quotes About Absoluteness

To the young there are no degrees of old just as there are no degrees of dead - either you are, or you are not.

El sueño de alcanzar lo absoluto. Soñar, soñar, pero como este sueño es romántico, no se puede cumplir jamás. La imposibilidad de tal cumplimiento la representa el arte, mientras que su posibilidad la representa la acción. Exactamente esto es el camino conjunto de la pluma y de la espada.

Everything and nothing are the same in the Absolute.

Versuch, das Erlebnis zu halten, zu fixieren, schlägt fehl. Die Absolutheit ist nicht zu bewahren. Ich schliesse daran, die Welt kann nicht ohne Böse bestehen, es bringt Bewegung in die Welt. Das Gute allein bewirkt Starre.

Bucuriile mele sunt triste pentru c? ele manifest? o acceptare a nu ÅŸtiu c?ror legi inferioare. Sunt deficiente fa?? de orice tristeÅ£e care nu trebuie s? priveasc? decât neîmplinirea mea în absolut.

Amour au bandeau: Ce proverbe est faux. L'amour ouvre grand les yeux, il rend clairvoyant:J'ai, de toi, sur toi, le savoir absolu. Rapport du clerc au maître; tu a tout pouvoir sur moi, mais j'ai tout savoir sur toi.

In nature, as in work of art, the isolation of an object tends to invest it with absoluteness, to endow it with that more-than-symbolic meaning which is identical with being.

Being omni-present—as every spiritual and religious tradition declares—it must of necessity be as immediate to us as is our every heartbeat, our every breath. Therefore, there is nowhere that we need to go, and nothing that we need to do, in order to be "in contact" with the Absolute.

I have only white or black; I don't want the gray. Everything or nothing.

I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation.

It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.

an understanding that choices, once made, are absulote, that the realm of freedom exists only in the present and in the future, and that more harm than good is done in reimagining that some choice in the past might have been dismissed in favour of a better option. This kind of thinking will lead only to regret, to the rotting of a man from inside out.

From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.

Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again for ever.

I suppose it's a cliché to say you're glad to be alive, that life is short, but to say you're glad to be not dead requires a specific intimacy with loss that comes only with age or deep experience. One has to know not simply what dying is like, but to know death itself, in all its absoluteness.

It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.

Nuestra luz es la de la cordillera en cualquier parte; gloriosa y algo punzante a fuerza de absoluta. Gracias a ella me parece como si hubiera tenido dos veces cada cosa que tuve allá: dos veces cada cerro, dos veces mi patio, dos veces también mi madre.

the notion of life implies a certain absoluteness of self-enjoyment

En la noche hay lo absoluto; en las tinieblas lo múltiple. La gramática, esta lógica no admite singular para las tinieblas, la noche es una, las tinieblas son varias.

Yet, if the American Negro has arrived at his identity by virtue of the absoluteness of his estrangement from his past, American white men still nourish the illusion that there is some means of recovering the European innocence, of returning to a state in which black men do not exist.

The distinctive feature of the unintelligent man is the hastiness and absoluteness of his opinions; the scientist is slow to believe, and never speaks without modification.

The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.

Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.

Elle avait ce gout de l'absolu, rien n'etait jamais assez, rien n'etait quelque chose. Quiconque a ce gout de l'absolu, renonce par la meme au bonheur.