16 Quotes About Absolute

By definition, an absolute is something that is unchangeable and unalterable. The word “absolute” can be used with adjectives to modify other words in a sentence. Absolute terms, such as “absolute zero,” also have a particular meaning and can be used with other adjectives to describe their nature. These quotes about absolutes will give you all the inspiration you need to pursue your ambitions and goals in life.

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Nothing is ever certain. Alice Sebold
It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People...
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It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true. J.d. Salinger
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I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit .. . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it–you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world. Harry Crews
In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a...
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In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it Unknown
Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a...
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Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion. Criss Jami
Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not...
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Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes Sidney Howard
Pride makes us long for a solution to things —...
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Pride makes us long for a solution to things — a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear. Julian Barnes
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(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility, and freedom, were Absolute Bruce Sterling
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Creativity abides no absolutes. Shannon Taylor Hodnett
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We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, ascribing to them an unshakeable faith in the triumph of virtue, as well as in the moral justification of their crimes. These are the theories of well-meaning children who see everything in black or white, dream of nothing but angels or demons, and have no idea of the incredible number of hypocritical masks of every color and shape and size which men use to conceal their features when they have passed the age of devotion to ideals and have abandoned themselves unrestrainedly to their egotistic desires . Alfred De Vigny
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I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories, no unions, no heroism, no absolutes, no heartbeat. That world has rigor mortis. Criss Jami
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A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false. Criss Jami
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The dominant philosophy in today’s public university is called relativism, which categorically denies the existence of truth or moral absolutes. Those who are foolish enough to believe in such archaic notions as biblical authority or the claims of Christ are to be pitied–or bullied. James C. Dobson
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True inner righteousness does not judge according to custom but by the measure of the most perfect law of God Almighty by which the mores of various places and times were adapted to those places and times. Augustine Of Hippo
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Never say never, ” he said urgently, rolling back on top of her and using all of his unusually heavy mass to press her deep into the cocoon of her little girl bed. “The gods love to toy with people who use absolutes. Josephine Angelini