Absolutes Quotes - Page 39

• A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Success, Passion, Keys

  Mahatma Gandhi (1982). “Collected Works”

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• In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Evil, Judging, Important

  Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy ch. 1 (1942)

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• You merely dream that you roam about. In a few years your stay in India will appear as a dream to you. You will dream some other dream at that time. Do realize that it is not you who moves from dream to dream, but the dreams flow before you and you are the immutable witness. No happening affects your real being-that is the absolute truth.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Dream, Real, Moving

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• The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of the majority, with force, threats, and intimidation being the order of the day. Today's federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. ... [The War] also laid to rest the great principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence that 'Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed'.

  Walter E. Williams

  War, Men, America

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• It is also an absolute mistake to believe that the State can be anything other than a civitas diaboli if it does not resurrect itself as Imperium, and it is also a mistake to want to build the Imperium on the basis of economic, military, industrial or even 'intellectual' or nationalist factors. The Imperium, according to the primordial conception rooted in Tradition, is something transcendent, and it can only be attained by those who have the power to transcend the lives of petty men and their appetites, their sentimentalisms, their national prides, their 'values', and their phobias.

  Julius Evola

  Military, Mistake, Believe

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• It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Education, Appreciation, Mean

  "Return to Mathematical Circles". Book by Howard Eves, 1988.

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• But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance

  Norton Juster

  Trying, Doing You, Enthusiasm

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• I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me interesting to demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western. An assassin can display a sublime altruism while a good man can kill with total indifference.

  Sergio Leone

  Men, Interesting, Sublime

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• You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you're - you're the best and you'll win every time.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Winning, Needs, Belief

  "The Charlie Rose Show", charlierose.com. April 24, 2013.

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• A society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not produce men with an inner moral sense; a society that is merely expedient does not produce men of conscience. A society that narrows the meaning of 'success' to the big money and in its terms condemns failure as the chief vice, raising money to the plane of absolute value, will produce the sharp operator and the shady deal. Blessed are the cynical, for only they have what it takes to succeed.

  C. Wright Mills

  Smart, Blessed, Men

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• What is the meaning of Initiation?  It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!

  Aleister Crowley

  Self, Perfection, Path

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• The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.

  Aleister Crowley

  Liberty, Individual, States

  Aleister Crowley (2017). “The Book of Law and The Book of Lies”, p.10, Courier Dover Publications

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• The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.

  Edith Stein

  Religious, Self, Order

  Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.12, ICS Publications

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• I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

  Agnes Macphail

  Home, Angel, Equality

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• I have unshakeable faith in the perfect outcome of every situation in my life, for God is in absolute control.

  Catherine Ponder

  Perfect, Outcomes, Situation

  Catherine Ponder (2016). “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, p.154, Lulu.com

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• In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Men, Mankind, Term

  "Silvio Berlusconi: I am inferior to no one in history" by John Hooper, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2009.

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• Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power

  Boyd Rice

  Exercise, People, Interest

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• Woman must be put back in her place. Man’s great error was to put woman on a pedestal, when she is far more at ease on her knees – where she belongs. … Woman must be reacquainted with truth and force. She must be reacquainted with truth through force. … She must be shown in no uncertain terms the absolute nature of the master/slave relationship endemic to the sexes.

  Boyd Rice

  Sex, Men, Errors

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• Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.

  Richard Lewontin

  Commitment, Acceptance, Science

  "Billions and Billions of Demons" by Richard Lewontin, www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.

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• As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is essential not only for its own sake but for the sake of truth, which requires absolute liberty for the utterance of unpopular and even demonstrably false opinions.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Liberty, Essentials, Utterance

  Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995). “On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society”, Vintage

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• Spain believe in what they do; they have absolute confidence in their style of play.

  Jose Antonio Camacho

  Believe, Play, Style

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• The life we live today - the environment in which we live - is not one of security - it's one of doubt, one of suspicion, one of absolute tension - we're not a pastoral society any more. We feel around us the pressure of man's inadequacy to control his own development. The time when the great forces of nature, the stones and the rocks, were the gods, is gone.

  Reg Butler

  Men, Rocks, Doubt

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• Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  Art, Self, Mistress

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• Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.

  Mabel Collins

  Men, Rewards, Glory

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• Come hell or high water you will never take me back to the place I was before. I have been through too much to let life whoop me again. My faith is stronger than it's ever been, my mind is more tenacious than it's ever been, my soul is more absolute.

  T. D. Jakes

  Water, Soul, Mind

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