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Absolutes Quotes - Page 4

Om is the greatest, meaning the Absolute.

Om is the greatest, meaning the Absolute.

Swami Vivekananda
Absolutes
Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.211, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

Robert Southey
Men, Contentment, Absolutes

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

Robert Browning
Made, Remakes, Absolutes
Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.272, Oxford University Press, USA

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.

Roald Dahl
Hell, Businessman, Absolutes

The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.

Oprah Winfrey
Rights, Contribution, Absolutes
Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.

Mavis Staples
Joy, Music Is, Absolutes

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe.

Isaac Asimov
Absolute Truth, Testing, Absolutes
"Bill Moyers' World Of Ideas" by Bill Moyers, May 1989.

But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse

Cormac McCarthy
Misery, Humans, Absolutes
Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.448, Pan Macmillan

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

Charles Jencks
Affluence, Models, Absolutes

. . . be absolute moderne.

Arthur Rimbaud
Absolutes

Nothing is an absolute reality, all is permitted.

Vladimir Bartol
Reality, Absolutes

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

Peter Kreeft
Reason, Absolutes, Relative

It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties.

Christopher Hitchens
Absolute Certainty, Certainty, Absolutes
Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1650, Atlantic Books Ltd

Failure is an absolute prerequisite for success. You learn to succeed by failing.

Brian Tracy
Succeed, Failing, Absolutes
Twitter post from Oct 12, 2016

To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

Bertrand Russell
Math, Thinking, Absolutes
"A Mathematician's Miscellany". Book by John Edensor Littlewood, 1953.

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

Alan Arkin
Truth, Unfolding, Absolutes
"What I've Learned: Alan Arkin" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. February 25, 2007.

When you talk and think of the Absolute, you have to do it in the relative; so all these logical arguments apply.

Swami Vivekananda
Thinking, Logical Arguments, Absolutes
Swami Vivekananda (1921). “Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park”

Mutual respect among everyone for one another and for one another's rights is an absolute prerequisite for peace.

Ryan Miller
Rights, Mutual Respect, Absolutes

Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.

Mason Cooley
Pursuit, Idealism, Absolutes

There need to be some absolutes in life.

James E. Faust
Life, Needs, Absolutes
James E. Faust (1990). “Reach Up for the Light”, Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Company

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.

Frank Herbert
Over It, Absolutes
Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.410, Penguin

You don't need absolute knowledge to have reliable knowledge

D. J. Grothe
Needs, Absolutes

Death is an absolute marvel.

William Shatner
Absolutes

But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Perfection, Absolutes
William Shakespeare (1856). “The works of William Shakspere. Knight's Cabinet ed., with additional notes”, p.99

There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.

William Landay
Stories, Moments, Absolutes

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