Quotes About Absolute

Contrary to the popular view, malnutrition is very seldom about an absolute lack of food.

Man's nature is in harmony with God's nature, in whose image it is made; so that there is not one truth in heaven and another truth on earth; one right for God and another right for man; one beauty for angels and another beauty for mortals; but the true, the right, the beautiful are universal in their nature and absolute in their authority.

The assault on absolute morality is the basis for every brainwashing scheme of the Left. It even bestows upon them the leeway to defend murderers and thugs. Higher learning, indeed.

Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.

A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?

It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.

The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.

Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.

The subject of human rights in China confounds absolute pronouncements.

The folding or doubling is itself a Memory: the 'absolute memory' or the memory of the outside, beyond the brief memory inscribed in strata and archives, beyond the relics remaining in the diagrams.

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

Absurdism is the last proof that Christian truth is absolute and uncompromising, or else it is the same as no truth at all; and if there is no truth, if Christian truth is not to be understood literally and absolutely, if God is dead, if there is no immortality- then this world is all there is, and this world is absurd, this world is hell.

The root of all that exists, Samsara and nirvana, is one's own mind. Primordially, mind is emptiness. Merge into the sky-like absolute expanse, Empty, luminous, beyond clinging. Outside, inside; eyes open or closed, Day, night; asleep or awake: No difference. During practice, after practice, Mind, appearances: Blend them. Continuously, without wavering, Merge completely with this vibrant, sky-like state.

Cultural values change with times, unless they are built on an absolute standard of values and virtues. This standard must be afterwards well-guarded and protected.

The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.

Non c'è niente di più doloroso per la mente umana di un improvviso, assoluto cambiamento.

There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those of any historical or prehistorical tyranny. Socialism is merely democratic absolute monarchy—that is, a system of absolutism without a fixed head, open to seizure of power by all corners, by any ruthless climber, opportunist, adventurer, demagogue or thug.

A basic premise is an absolute that permits no co-operation with its antithesis and tolerates no tolerance.

There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another—if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn't.

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He had the ease of an expert, so confident that it seemed casual, but it was the ease of a tremendous concentration, the concentration on one's task that has the ruthlessness of an absolute.

The plenum concluded with a tribute dashed off to Stalin in which the participants exclaimed, "we cannot express in words the full force of our love for you," and pledged their readiness to "meet the enemy."4 The officials who made this vow of absolute loyalty did not know it then, but as it turned out, they were the enemy.

If your idea of good opposes something else, you can be sure that [it] is not absolute or certain.