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Letter "A" » absolutes
«Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
absolute, absolutes, beings, capacity, granted, human beings, infinite, take for granted, taking
«Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.»
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
(Historian)
| Keywords:
absolute, absolutely, absolutes, Absolute Power, corrupting, corrupts, power
«Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in a love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the mornings, what you will do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.»
«An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should absolute freedom.»
«Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.»
«Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.»
Author: Pope John Paul II
(Pope)
| Keywords:
absolutes, idolatries, idolatry, purifies, purify, superstition
«A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Maturity
| Keywords:
absolutes, bad person, charitably, deals, deeply, emotionally, good and, humbly, in all, mature, matured, matures, maturing, objective, stirred, walks
«Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
absolute, absolutes, absolute magnitude, actual, certainly, circle, come into, exactly, existence, have-not, in a circle, known, line, one line, straight, straight line, There was, The Beginning
«When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality»
«It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.»
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