Absolutes Quotes

The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control.

Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.

I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.

Baseball’s absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all.

God is not an optional extra, He's an absolute must!

The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.

What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.

Absolutes are absolutely dangerous.

Nothing is for sure. Change is the only thing that is the absolute.

When you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.

I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.

The Absolute is the material of both God and man.

THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is beautifully written, perfectly paced, expertly structured, and simply unputdownable. Koryta is an absolute master.

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

There can be no absolute reality, there can be no absolute truth.

Absolute power demoralizes.

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.

The Absolute Truth can be perceived by a repentant heart.

I'm a total soccer freak. I total soccer freak. Absolute total.

Until we realise ourselves as the Absolute, we cannot attain to deliverance.

. . . be absolute moderne.

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.

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

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.

Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.

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

If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?

I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.

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

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

We don't deal in absolutes. We deal in probabilities.

I can like something. You can like something. It's not an absolute.

Nothing is ever certain.

It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.

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

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in.

To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.

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

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

Doing the right thing at all costs is an absolute, and only a sith deals in absolutes.

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