Quotes About Absolute

To Nichiren, "freedom" meant not an escape from the realm of changing phenomena but the discovery of an absolute point of reliance within ourselves.

Math has proven the existence of God, because it is absolute and without contradiction; but the devil must exist as well, because we cannot prove it

Nietzsche talked about "good and bad" in the context of nobility. The nobles regarded the exceptional as good and the mediocre as bad. When the "good and bad" of the nobility was replaced by the "good and evil" of the mob, exceptionalism was declared evil, and mediocrity was sanctified. The holy mediocrities are now everywhere. The kingdom of mediocrity is absolute … absolute shit!

Light is massless, maximally time dilated and maximally length contracted. It's immaterial. It's mind! Light is the carrier wave of the universe. It's the universal, the absolute, condition regarding which all material particulars are relative. Light is the Singularity. Light is mind, light is life. Light is God. Light endures forever, meaning that life and mind endure forever. Light is absolute. It has an absolute speed. All particulars come from light.

You little devil!" he said, his tone admiring. "You think to use your fiendish wiles upon me with no care for what might become of my position at Scotland Yard. You are an absolute monster," he told me, but he was smiling as he said it.

To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.

El dominio absoluto de toda la realidad

Painters know that material needs are relative; and that the satisfactions of the mind are absolute.

I mean, if I were a rich kid with stable, self-sufficient parents whom I thought I could trust to attend to themselves and to me, and I were heading for a tailspin, I might feel free to let myself free-fall, knowing that someone else would provide a bottom upon which I might eventually bottom out. But what if you are the only resting point you know of? What if you are absolute zero? What if only you can catch yourself?

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

God is the unlimited conceptual realization of the absolute wealth of potentiality.

I mean, they're made out of dust. You're all just dust and dried blood, you're dead. You are not absolute.

The world in which we now live is a world whose outlook is so distorted that we absolutize what is relative (money-making, power, success) and relativize what is absolute (truth, moral values, and God).

J'ai la foi. Cette foi n'a pas d'objet. Cela ne signifie pas que je ne crois en rien. Croire n'est beau qu'au sens absolu du verbe. La foi est une attitude et non un contrat. Il n'y a pas de cases à cocher.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

I realized love won't obey our expectations, it's mystery is pure and absolute.

Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man.

I don't concern myself about articles of faith, but I will not tolerate it, if a cleric (Pfaffe) concerns himself with earthly matters. The organized lie must somehow be broken, so that the state is absolute lord.

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

Absolute Laws in the Platonic sense cannot be known scientifically — as Plato himself realized. They can only be known (or imagined) by intuition or by some Act of Faith. Empirically and existentially, nobody knows today, right now, if we have any Absolute Laws in our intellectual common market. All that we know is that we have some models that work a lot better, practically, than some of the older models we have discarded.

To be pedantic about it, no experiment or series of experiments entitles us to make absolute statements about mind and matter. Experiments only entitle us to say, at a date, that one kind of model seems more useful than another kind of model. To go beyond that and believe in a model remains an act of faith; the Christian Scientists recognize their own act of faith, but the Fundamentalist Materialists do not.