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Quotes About Absolute

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
~ Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock
Philosophy insists that there is a joy which is absolute, which never changes.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Absolute equals nothingness.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people.
~ Rae Foley
National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.
~ John Adams
Freedom isn't a static point. It's spectrum from absolute to none at all, and is usually inversely proportional to safety.
~ M.L. Wulff
Instantly, the black water enfolded him, cooled him to his heart, and declared, "There is no hope; there never was." The saints was absolute, and full of the silence of a trapped scream.
~ William Browning Spencer
We entered a period in which every moment was weighted with both the absolute necessity of hope and a terrible and almost unbearable anticipation of the worst.
~ William Kent Krueger
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
~ David Brinkley
Reality is neurology, and is not absolute.
~ David Cronenberg
when dealing with the Absolute, there can be no such thing as debt.
~ David Graeber
Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small, that it scarcely admits of calculation. Commerce, therefore, in my opinion, is apt to decay in absolute governments, not because it is there less secure, but because it is less honourable.
~ David Hume
No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had that absolute in God's revelation.
~ Francis Schaeffer
There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
The sum total of all the cells in an organism is one person; so each soul is like one cell and the sum of them is God, and beyond that is the Absolute.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle.
~ Swami Vivekananda
God, a born extremist, is the diplomat's worst enemy. Quite apart from the fact that His decrees are irrevocable, the Absolute will not allow anyone to relativize matters.
~ Régis Debray
There are absolute atheists ... Absolute atheism is in no way a mere absence of belief in God. It is rather a refusal of God, a fight against God, a challenge to God.
~ Jacques Maritain
Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.
~ Thomas a Kempis
First and foremost I feel I am a child of God ....Today I think that everything matters, but like a nice game of relative importance and value, certainly not absolute like conversion.
~ Augusto De Luca