Absolutes Quotes - Page 37

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

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Essence, Manifestation, Universe

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.194, Penguin

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• We must eradicate root and branch any fear and dread in our soul concerning the future that is coming towards us... We must develop composure with regard to all the feelings and sensations we have about the future; we must anticipate with absolute equanimity whatever may be coming towards us, thinking only that whatever it may be will be brought to us by the wisdom-filled guidance of the universe.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Thinking, Roots, Soul

  Rudolf Steiner (2011). “On Fear”, p.29, Rudolf Steiner Press

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• To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My vocation was culture, not sainthood.

  Mircea Eliade

  Believe, Sacrifice, Twenties

  Mircea Eliade (1990). “Autobiography, Volume 1: 1907-1937, Journey East, Journey West”, p.200, University of Chicago Press

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• The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.

  Yves Klein

  Art, Imagination, Vehicle

  Yves Klein (2006). “Towards the immaterial”, Editions Dilecta

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• We need a new way of doing business to get out of the present crisis ... Absolute greed has come close to bankrupting the world. Thanks to the crisis that certain businesses have dumped on everyone a lot of people are going to suffer on a global scale. All of us must learn. It is all the more important that those business leaders that are left standing try to be a force for good.

  Richard Branson

  People, Greed, Leader

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• The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.

  Tony Abbott

  Real, Believe, People

  "Town of Beaufort changed Tony Abbott's view on climate change" by Stuart Rintoul, www.theaustralian.com.au. December 12, 2009.

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• Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else's point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Believe, Communication, Views

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.88, Knopf

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• I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake.

  Rick Scott

  Mistake, Thinking, Stimulus

  Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 25, 2010.

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• Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.

  Richard Russo

  Beautiful, Ruins, Masterpiece

  "Jess Walter" by Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. August 6, 2012.

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• The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

  Bill Bradley

  Religious, Practice, Atheism

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• The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I explain to them that the terrorists had left, that the terrorists had worn Israeli uniforms, that the terrorists had been sent into Chatila by Israeli officers, that the victims of the terrorists were not Israelis but Palestinians and Lebanese?

  Robert Fisk

  Uniforms, Victim, Conviction

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• Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.

  Thomas Noon Talfourd

  Inspirational, Men, Justice

  Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1836). “Ion: A Tragedy in 5 Acts”, p.113

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• Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you. This rule is absolute and may be broken only at your peril.

  John Creasey

  Book, Editors, Lunch

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• Only since the turn of the century has abstraction again become recognized as an artistic means of representation. It was then that one returned to the recognition of the immense role abstraction plays in the human mind by its power of concentration upon absolute essentials.

  Sigfried Giedion

  Play, Mind, Essentials

  "The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art".

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• As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Golf, Rhythm, Seagull

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• We get done with the game, and it's an absolute downpour 30 minutes later. That's when I thought God was telling me that's enough-time for you to go do something else

  John Elway

  Sports, Games, Enough Time

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• Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with the ego is playful and tentative rather than absolute and mandatory, while the concern with material possessions is pragmatic rather than obsessive.

  Fritjof Capra

  Ego, Way, Mental Health

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• I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be admissible in any field of science... This loosening of thinking seems to me to be the greatest blessing which modern science has given to us. For the belief in a single truth and in being the possessor thereof is the root cause of all evil in the world.

  Max Born

  Believe, Thinking, Blessing

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• The Lordship of Jesus Christ is not quite forgotten among Christians, but it has been relegated to the hymnal where all responsibility toward it may be comfortably discharged in a glow of religious emotion. Or if it is taught as a theory in the classroom it is rarely applied to practical living. The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute final authority over the whole church and over its members in every detail of their lives is simply not now accepted as true by the rank and file of evangelical Christians.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Found, Presence Of God, Absolute Freedom

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• Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes time to stand still, lust kills time, which is not to say that it wastes it or whiles it aimlessly away but rather that it annihilates it, cancels it, extirpates it from continuum; preventing, while lasts, any lapse into the tense and shabby woes of temporal society, lust is the thousand-pound odometer needle on the dashboard of the absolute.

  Tom Robbins

  Track, Lust, World

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• Be willing to take the first step, no matter how small it is. Concentrate on the fact that you are willing to learn. Absolute miracles will happen.

  Louise Hay

  Inspiring, Miracle, Matter

  Louise L. Hay (1991). “The Power Is Within You”, p.35, Hay House, Inc

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• I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing we are just plain nice folks.

  Glen Cook

  Honesty, Nice, Lying

  Glen Cook (2008). “The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company”, p.31, Macmillan

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• The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Men, Difficult Situations, Purpose

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