Absolutes Quotes - Page 8

• The uniqueness of zazen lies in this: that the mind is freed from bondage to all thought forms, visions, objects, and imaginings, however sacred or elevating, and brought to a state of absolute emptiness, from which alone it may one day perceive its own true nature, or the nature of the universe.

  Philip Kapleau

  Lying, Mind, Vision

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• This is an absolute law: You've got to be rich inside to become and remain rich outside. Become rich inside and your mental equivalent will manifest in your experience.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Law, Rich, Manifest

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• Absolute, unquestioning faith in God is the greatest method of instantaneous healing. An unceasing effort to arouse that faith is man's highest and most rewarding duty.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Healing, Men, Effort

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1986). “Self-realization”

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• We emphasize the transcendent worth of the human person. We insist that the human person must never be treated as an object; he must always be considered the subject. That is the basis for our teaching, the absolute standard.

  Pope John Paul II

  Teaching, Standards, Bases

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• As soon as the theoretician attempts to take account of so-called 'utility' and 'reality' instead of absolute truth, his work will cease to be a polar star of seeking humanity and instead will become a prescription for everyday life.

  Adolf Hitler

  Stars, Reality, Humanity

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The thinking of the one, therefore, will be determined by eternal truth, the actions of the other more by the practical reality of the moment. The greatness of the one lies in the absolute abstract soundness of his idea.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Reality, Greatness

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...absolute intolerance also provides long growth.

  Adolf Hitler

  Long, Growth, Intolerance

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Doing a route at the absolute limit of the possible demands and encourages a coordination of all peripheral factors. It is, at the same time, a sign of joy and contentment with that moment, perhaps even a mirror of the equlibrium in your inner spirit, a mirror of a liberated state of mind.

  Wolfgang Gullich

  Mirrors, Joy, Mind

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• Any scientist can testify that a dead ocean means a dead planet .... No national law, no national precautions can save the planet. The ocean, more than any other part of our planet, ... is a classic example of the absolute need for international global action.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Ocean, Mean, Law

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• Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Perfection, Here And Now

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• I have served one idea, marched under one banner - war against all imposed authority - against every kind of deprivation of freedom, in the name of the absolute independence of the individual.

  Alexander Herzen

  War, Names, Ideas

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• Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.

  Isaac Newton

  Flow, Relation, Mathematical

  Sir Isaac Newton, Florian Cajori (1946). “Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World”, p.6, Univ of California Press

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• I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. I have always believed God to be without form. What I did hear was like a Voice from afar, and yet quite near.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Voice, Oneness

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• Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Moving, Men, Giving

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• As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.

  Benito Mussolini

  Attitude, Political, Doctrine

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• The most successful prostitutes are invisible, because the sign of a prostitute's success is her absolute blending with the environment. She's so shrewd, she never becomes visible. She never gets in trouble. She has command of her life, and her clients.

  Camille Paglia

  Successful, Clients, Environment

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• A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.

  Karl Jaspers

  Mean, Knowing, Approach

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• Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Champion, Titles, Relief

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• One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.

  Walter Wriston

  Men, Color, Attention

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• Love simply is - it asks no permissions. Acceptance is all love asks, the only demand it makes, but it is an absolute one. You can either admit it to your heart or refuse it, but there's no other option.

  Stephanie Laurens

  Heart, Acceptance, Demand

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• Jesus' response to suffering people and to "nobodies" provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute, but rather the Loving One who draws near.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Heart, People

  Philip Yancey (2010). “The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide”, p.51, Harper Collins

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• The pet food recall, which was after all just about pets, and treated as if it were an inconsequential matter, was an absolute forerunner of what's going on in China, where 50,000 infants have been sickened because of a contaminated infant formula. So these things are all closely related. You cannot separate the food supply for pets, farm animals, and people, and you cannot separate problems in one area of a country from problems in another area.

  Marion Nestle

  Country, Animal, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't think scientists can dictate from above what we should do, because it's not a matter of scientific decision. If you want to have everybody living like a Beverly Hills millionaire, then 2 billion people might be too many. If we want to have a battery-chicken kind of world, with everybody having an absolute minimum diet, you might be able to support 10 billion.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Thinking, People, Support

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• People in the United States don't like to hear it, but puritanical Islam has been on the rise because of our unequivocal policy of absolute support for Israel, regardless of what Israel does - even if they invade Lebanon and bombard a major city like Beirut, full of civilians. Israel has atomic bombs, but we go nuts if any Arab country or Iran develops even nuclear capabilities.

  Khaled Abou El Fadl

  Country, Cities, Israel

  "The Great Theft". Interview with Melanie Colburn, www.motherjones.com. November 18, 2005.

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• I made mistakes. My supporters and I failed to prevent a main like [Mikhail] Saakashvili from acquiring absolute power. I should have criticized him earlier on.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Mistake, Should Have, Made

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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