Absolutes quotes:

Send

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable. -- Emile M. Cioran
How to know, oh how to know! All is relative ease and facility in orthodoxy, yet how can it be denied that good is in itself undeniable? Absolutes are the most uncertain of all formulations, while the uncertainties are the most real... -- Jack Vance
Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes. -- Christopher Reeve
Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world. -- Berkeley Breathed
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. -- Pope John Paul II
There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes. -- John Updike
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality. -- Roger Penrose
If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win? -- Randall Terry
Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda. -- Gustav Heinemann
Scientists have a tendency to believe in absolutes, in studies and the repeating of them. Psychoanalysis is firmly based in subjective accounts. We need both. -- Siri Hustvedt
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
What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them. -- James E. Faust
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit. -- Alan Greenspan
There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokerage firms; there will always be people who set out to deceive the regulators and even deceive their own senior management. -- Mary Schapiro
The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against. -- Suzanne Fields
When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold. -- Ravi Zacharias
It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea that if you are too kind, where does it all end? That not to help someone is somehow a good idea. -- Peter Mullan
I used to exercise an hour every day - no excuses. I live in absolutes: I either exercise every day, or I let myself off the hook. I'm trying to find that balance of working out three or four days a week and sticking to it. -- Anna Kendrick
If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if. -- Duff Goldman
There are never any absolutes in the fashion business: one day you may like black, and the next day you like colour. I think it's a good lesson that we should never believe too much in any one thing - because the next day it's out, and if we're stuck to it, we're out, too. -- Mario Testino
absolutes are absolutely dangerous ... -- James Tiptree Jr.
I don't really think in absolutes. -- Will Ferrell
I trust that absolutes have gradations. -- Jane Austen
Beware of absolutes. There are many gods. -- D. H. Lawrence
There need to be some absolutes in life. -- James E. Faust
There's no absolutes in life - only vodka. -- Mick Jagger
We don't deal in absolutes. We deal in probabilities. -- Seth Klarman
But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse -- Cormac McCarthy
The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness. -- Ravi Zacharias
All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes. -- Edward Sapir
There are no absolutes, and your way is neither the only way nor the right way. -- Stephen Richards
Doing the right thing at all costs is an absolute, and only a sith deals in absolutes. -- Dave Filoni
Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos. -- Peter Kreeft
The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex. -- Emily Giffin
When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone's graffiti. -- Wayne LaPierre
It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal. -- John Ralston Saul
There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike. -- Kathy Whitworth
Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth. -- Deepak Chopra
To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your "Core Attachments," means apologizing for your very existence. -- Walter Kirn
There is only one categorical imperative in golf, and that is to hit the ball. There are no minor absolutes. -- Charles Walter Simpson
In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder. -- Pearl S. Buck
Since there are no absolutes, when it's convenient, you change the rules. Do we know any politicians that have done that? -- Ted Cruz
The victory over Euclidean space was not achieved by isolated individuals, but by a field of young rebels opposed to all absolutes. -- Marshall McLuhan
One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes. -- Richard Allen Epstein
The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack. -- Keith Olbermann
One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes -- Ayn Rand
I Am: So all of your science is theory?Eve El utionist: There are no absolutes!I Am: Are you absolutely sure? -- Gabriel
we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients. -- Ellen Goodman
People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo. ... -- Jennifer James
I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes. -- Arthur Koestler
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... -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Once you depart from the Ten Commandments, you have relativism, humanism, the abandonment of absolutes. You have anything. How long before child pornography is mainstream? -- Randall Terry
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
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. -- Raymond Chandler
And the only answer I know isThat no child should give up on life.Math deals in absolutes.But life is the most absolute of all. -- Terri Fields
Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point. -- James Dobson
There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point. -- James Dobson
Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers. -- John Owen
If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities. -- Paul Johnson
In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
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. -- Azar Nafisi
It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes." -- Hugo Black
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. -- Bill Cosby
Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we're simultaneously both cowardly and arrogant. We don't know the answers, so we assume they must not exist. -- Chuck Klosterman

Send