Quotes About Absolute

Since childhood, I had always been affected by the changes of the moon, sometimes very much so. As the light of the satellite fell on my face my mind cleared, and I knew what was to be done. ("Absolute Evil")

I felt in complicity with the tendency of this country to absolute desolation.

Wisdom is an absolute positivism which regards only what can be grasped by direct experience as real, and everything else as unreal, abstract, and illusory.

the Taoist Absolute was the Relative.

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.

In fact, it has been proposed that absolute neuron count, regardless of brain or body size, best predicts a species' mental powers.61

God loves us and saves us because we are his. It's difficult for us to grasp how absolute his side of the relationship is; he loves us even while we are sinners, and nothing can halt or deflect the force of his love. He is love, and his love fills the universe.

But we cannot go back to the life we shared with you yesterday, a life which you will spread before us so temptingly when you return. We have suffered too much to believe any more that the way to what we see as the Absolute can go in any other direction than through the deep valley of sorrow. Hell has not opened before our eyes to no purpose, and he who has once seen it cannot find his way back to earthly symposiums.

The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

there was something superior even in his injustice, and absolute in his mistakes.

Mrs. Nettlepoint stared.  "I couldn't do that." On which I was the more amused that I had to explain I was only amused.  "What does it signify now?" "I thought you thought everything signified.  You were so full," she cried, "of signification!" "Yes, but we're further out now, and somehow in mid-ocean everything becomes absolute." "What else can

But this august dignity I treat of, is not the dignity of kings and robes, but that abounding dignity which has no robed investiture. Thou shalt see it shining in the arm that wields a pick or drives a spike; that democratic dignity which, on all hands, radiates without end from God; Himself! The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!

Longer distances yield local media coverage that tends to be more one-dimensional and absolute, less nuanced, and more sporadic.

Actually, I was the seventh private explorer but the first Canadian 'space clown.' I never dreamed of going into space; I just dreamed of traveling. But I admit that space is an incredible destination and the absolute traveling experience.

The religious definition of truth is not that it is universal but that it is absolute.

Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.

To the sexual offender, possession is power, and total possession is absolute power.

The sovereignty of God means that He is King and He is in absolute control; and it also means that we are not.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

And there is no such thing as absolute zero, the temperature at which all motion stops. (Even as we approach it, atoms continue to move slightly, which is called the zero-point energy.)

Life is the force of the absolute, the supreme, the Creator who creates everything.

to be absolutely modern means: never to question the content of modernity and to serve it as one serves the absolute, that is, without hesitation.