Quotes About Absolute

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

It seems in America you are stuck with the position you adopted, even when events change, in order to claim absolute consistency. That can't be good.

The spectacular sparkle of set-apart femininity is found through absolute abandonment to the Author of all true beauty.

Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.

The true, the universal meaning is that human existence is possible, only possible, in faith. In faith, the individual becomes the universal, ceases to be isolated, becomes meaningful and absolute; hence in faith there is a true ethic. And in faith existence in society becomes meaningful too as existence in true charity.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

It is faith (trust) that affirms that the light, the ultimate truth, is perfect love. (That's because there is only one God, and He is both.) Therefore faith is the key to this absolute love of truth.

these relativists turn out to be not relativistic at all about one thing: their relativism. That's their one nonnegotiable absolute.

all power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely").

Rather than signalling the aspiration for system of checks and balances against absolute power, democracy become a euphemism for majority rule.

great and sustained destruction requires great ambition. It must be conceived as the means toward achieving a new order, and although the idea behind that new order may be criminal and objectively very stupid, it must also be compellingly simple and at the same time absolute. The ideology of genocide is all of those things.

Ever since Pope John Calvin had moved the seat of the Papacy to Geneva and set up the Consistorial Court of Discipline, the Church's power over every aspect of life had been absolute.

All human giving is fiction giving. Only the Absolute nonfictively owns; hence only the Absolute can nonfictively give; hence the mortal who believes that he or she owns, stands no chance of receiving what the Absolute has to nonfictively give.

There are many gods. There is one god. There is no god. Gods are merciful. Gods are cruel. Gods are indifferent. Their indifference is merciful. Their indifference is cruel. Their indifference is absolute.

Do you believe that there is any absolute standard in this world? Despise mankind and find out the meshes that you can slip through in the net of the Code. The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

There are no absolutes for something so relative as a human life. There are no rules for something so gentle as a heart.

As Ibn Arabi says: 'Absolute existence is the source of all existence'.

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

Nosotros y todas nuestras existencias son no-entidades. Tú eres el ser absoluto cuya apariencia es transitoria.

Los Sufis niegan la realidad absoluta del tiempo, el espacio, la forma física. Estas cosas son relativas y locales. Aparentan ser absolutas.

Tal como dice Ibn Arabi: La absoluta existencia es la fuente de toda existencia.

Ideologies exist only where there is no absolute knowledge. If you know something, you do not have to believe or disbelieve it....

El Sufi debe ser capaz de alternar su pensamiento entre lo relativo y lo Absoluto, lo aproximado y lo Real.

Absolute values are the things that are important whether you like them or not. Relative values depend on social contexts and personal preferences and conditions of life. Our current market system pursues relative transient values at the cost of absolute lasting values.