Top 75 Nothing Is Absolute Quotes
#2. In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.
Karl Marx
#3. We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.
Myles Munroe
#4. Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
Frida Kahlo
#5. Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.
John Ralston Saul
#6. Since nothing is absolute
There is no absolute silence,
Only an appearance
Of temporary peace.
Dejan Stojanovic
#7. The world is essentially bipolar: driven to extremes but defined by flux. Saints are always just a stumble away from sinners. Nothing is absolute, not even death
Terri Cheney
#8. Since everything is interrelated, since all things depend one upon another, nothing is absolute, nothing is separate, but all are part of the one indivisible whole.
Thich Thien-An
#9. Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.
Mordecai Richler
#10. Men do recognise at last that a supernatural Religion involves an absolute authority, and that Private Judgment in matters of faith is nothing else than the beginning of disintegration.
Robert Hugh Benson
#11. Mengistu does not understand the meaning of self-determination, either historically or in the abstract. He cannot conceive of a nation as anything but an absolute centralized authority, totalitarianism, for his rule is nothing less than that now.
Mengistu Haile Mariam
#12. That's what terrorism is, basically - pure theater. Nothing in particular is ever accomplished by it, other than to focus attention on a small group of people who seize absolute power by threatening everything that holds civilization together.
Dorothy Gilman
#13. But nothing is more opaque
than absolute transparency.
Margaret Atwood
#14. There is nothing, nothing, nothing more important to me in the men and women I train than their absolute personal integrity.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#15. You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control your destiny. If you fail to control your mind, you will control nothing else.
Napoleon Hill
#16. There is nothing absolute and final. If everything were ironclad, all the rules absolute and everything structured so no paradox or irony existed, you couldn't move. One could say that man sneaks through the crack where paradox exists.
Itzhak Bentov
#17. There is no beginning and there is no end. Nothing is final. There is no absolute. There is no highest point, nor is there a lowest point. These configurations are ideas. Ideas are primitive constructs, symbolic representations, reflections in a mirror.
Frederick Lenz
#18. He who asserts belief with absolute certainty knows nothing of faith and makes himself into a fool. He who is wise, upon realizing they have done this, recants and searches themselves for further enlightenment.
Cristina Marrero
#19. In this world, when no dualities affect one, when nothing affects him, and he attains the awareness of 'I am absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma)'; one's well-being [spiritual work] is done.
Dada Bhagwan
#20. Zero kelvin is the lowest possible temperature. At absolute zero, all motion comes to a standstill. It is obvious that a lower temperature is not feasible because there is no velocity smaller than zero and no energy content less than nothing.
Wolfgang Ketterle
#21. To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.
Carl Jung
#22. What was money when one's life was at stake? We had learned that nothing lasts and that no value is absolute. The only exception to that rule: freedom.
Miklos Nyiszli
#23. Kind prince there is nothing in the realm of ideas that is absolute, therefore all efforts to form ideologies are ultimately futile.
Lao-Tzu
#24. I often describe the Absolute as Pure Infinite Potential, prior to being or becoming anything. It is forever unborn, yet gives birth to all of existence. About our ultimate nature nothing can be said; it must be revealed.
Adyashanti
#25. His essential nature is sat-chit-ananda: (Sat) Absolute Being - He encompasses everything because there is nothing outside of him; (Chit) Absolute Consciousness - He is the complete consciousness
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
#26. After all, there is nothing like a mother telling you that you're making a bad decision to convince you that what you are doing is the absolute best course of action.
Emily Giffin
#27. No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.
Gustave Moreau
#28. God's sacred intent for you and for me is nothing short of absolute abandonment to Jesus, entire separation from the pollution of the world, and ardent worship of our King with every breath we take.
Leslie Ludy
#29. The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.
George W. Bush
#30. Circumstances makes a thing poison or nectar. There is nothing absolute good or bad.
Amit Ray
#31. Nothing comes at all
never anything. And I cannot accustom myself to that. It is this monotony, this absolute fixity in life, that is the hardest thing for me to endure. I should like to go away from here. Go away? But where and how? I do not know, and I stay.
Octave Mirbeau
#32. Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure.
Muhammad Asad
#33. Nothing is for sure. Change is the only thing that is the absolute.
John Feldmann
#35. Absolute perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing to add, but nothing to take away.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#36. We need not know a thing in order to be able to investigate and control it. Where knowledge is absent - and in an absolute sense we can know nothing - a vague working hypothesis is quite enough for all practical and even philosophical purposes.
Aldous Huxley
#37. Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.
Julien Offray De La Mettrie
#38. The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself.
Katharine Whitehorn
#39. God is under no manner of obligation to show mercy to any natural man, whose heart is not turned to God: and that a man can challenge nothing either in absolute justice, or by free promise, from any thing he does before he has believed on Jesus Christ, or has true repentance begun in him.
Jonathan Edwards
#40. Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even too much - in her own writing, the place where her creative life transpires in absolute fullness.
Elena Ferrante
#41. Television for a child creates such a high bar of stimulus that nothing else competes. A beautiful day is absolute crap to a kid who watches tv.
Louis C.K.
#42. The worst thing we can do, the absolute worst, is to do nothing.
Fritz Gerlich
#43. Freedom is to stand naked at the moment, having no expectations, nothing to lose or to gain. The empty then is fulfilled, just to be emptied again at the next moment. The Absolute Freedom is, to become every path, at any given moment.
Grigoris Deoudis
#44. The seeker disappears when he realizes There is nothing to seek. In this awareness of nothingness, The Absolute tells him: What you seek, you already are.
Gian Kumar
#46. Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[ ... ]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action.
Steven Brust
#47. Conscience is the absolute truthfulness perceived, which comes from Nothing, our true nature, and as such reflects things exactly the way they are.
Ilchi Lee
#48. Creation out of absolute nothing is a metaphysical quagmire for theists anyway, since nothing must at least have the potentiality for becoming something. Since theists are stuck with potentiality, it might as well be something like a quantum vacuum.
Taner Edis
#49. My absolute favorite movie of all time is Pink Floyd's 'The Wall.' Nothing compares to it. I have seen it thousands of times and still watch it every few weeks.
Pauley Perrette
#50. When you go deep inside nothing is all there is. There is no 'I am'. The 'I am' merges in the Absolute.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
#51. Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people.
Rae Foley
#52. Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,
where something might be planted,
a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.
Rumi
#53. All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity ... that in nature there is nothing absolute, nothing perfectly regular.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
#54. You have to give me something, Seafort. Politics is the art of the possible." Father gazed at the Station. "Sir, I can give you nothing. Morality is ... the art of the absolute.
David Feintuch
#55. How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.
Amy Tan
#56. The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.
Albert Camus
#57. The hope we have in Christ is an absolute certainty. We can be sure that the place Christ is preparing for us will be ready when we arrive, because with Him nothing is left to chance. Everything He promised He will deliver.
Billy Graham
#58. Faith is belief without reason; we operate on reason and nothing but. I have zero faith in my crew, just absolute confidence.
Iain M. Banks
#59. To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.
Nicholas Mosley
#60. People tend to think that death is absolute, the one thing we can all be certain about, but that's not the case. Death is complex. It's powerful and timeless. The truth is, when it comes to death, nothing is impossible.
Jacqueline E. Smith
#61. But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit.
Mordecai Richler
#62. There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed is another contradiction-how can we keep the bonds of our humanness and still venture gladly and purposefully into the absolute loneliness of eternity?
Carlos Castaneda
#63. The practice is to make the non-arising of grasping and clinging absolute, final, and eternally void, so that no grasping and clinging can ever return. Just that is enough. There is nothing else to do.
Buddhadasa
#64. Love generates, or rather reveals, something which may be called absolute charm. In the beloved nothing is gauche. Every move of the head, every tone of the voice, every laugh or grunt or cough or twitch of the nose is as valuable and revealing as a glimpse of paradise.
Iris Murdoch
#65. Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.
John William Draper
#66. It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.
Oscar Wilde
#67. The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was nothing but the Devil's ruse.
Orhan Pamuk
#68. He wrote very well in those days, as it happens, much better than he does now. He had absolute convictions, and style is nothing more than the absolute conviction of possessing a style.
Ricardo Piglia
#69. Ultimate freedom has nothing to do with your life circumstances - it is the freedom of allowing the self to dissolve into the waves of the ocean. It is the freedom that is born through one's absolute trust in life.
Richard Rudd
#70. The pristine virtue is nothing but absolute absurdity, utter obscurity and sheer imbecility.
Chandrashekar
#71. Nothing will be attained from actions of hundreds of thousands of lives. Moksha (liberation) is attained through 'absolute humility' (param vinaya). The 'gates of understanding' are opened with 'absolute humility'. 'Absolute humility' arises only when the ego is dissolved.
Dada Bhagwan
#72. There is nothing in this world that belongs to us in an absolute sense,
Jose Saramago
#73. The sole fact of having a school to train creative people is absolute lunacy ... The idea of 'pedagogical vision' is ignoble, it has nothing to do with art, it's contrary to art. I really believe in teaching, despite what I say.
Christian Boltanski
#74. When there is really nothing left to do or believe, except to remember, walking helps retrieve the absolute simplicity of presence, beyond all hope, before any expectation.
Frederic Gros
#75. Let the artist have just enough to eat, and the tools of this trade: ask nothing of him. Materially make the life of the artist sufficiently miserable to be unattractive, and no-one will take to art save those in whom the divine daemon is absolute.
Clive Bell
