Absolute Quotes - page 3

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart. (Salman Rushdie)
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. View quote
Eugène Ionesco
I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass. View quote
Lewis Mumford
Death is the possibility of the absolute impossibility of Dasein. View quote
Martin Heidegger
Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life. View quote
John Howard
In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving - from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe. View quote
Eugen Drewermann
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death. View quote
John Ralston Saul
I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from. (Anne Enright)
If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this... it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring. View quote
Nicholas Stern
But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance. View quote
Norton Juster
Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. View quote
Roger Caras
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. View quote
Arthur Henderson
We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible. View quote
John Boyd Orr
The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in. View quote
Lionel Shriver
I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom. View quote
Alan Rickman
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth. View quote
Eric Temple Bell
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. (Morris Raphael Cohen)
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility. View quote
Hu Shih
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. View quote
Harold Brodkey
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? View quote
Harry Shearer
Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children. View quote
Lord Mountbatten