Absolutes Quotes

Nothing is ever certain.

~ Alice Sebold

It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.

~ J.d. Salinger

I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it—you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world.

~ Harry Crews

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

~ Criss Jami

Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

~ Sidney Howard

Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.

~ Julian Barnes

(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility, and freedom, were Absolute

~ Bruce Sterling

If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous.

~ Criss Jami

Creativity abides no absolutes.

~ Shannon Taylor Hodnett

We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, ascribing to them an unshakeable faith in the triumph of virtue, as well as in the moral justification of their crimes. These are the theories of well-meaning children who see everything in black or white, dream of nothing but angels or demons, and have no idea of the incredible number of hypocritical masks of every color and shape and size which men use to conceal their features when they have passed the age of devotion to ideals and have abandoned themselves unrestrainedly to their egotistic desires

~ Alfred De Vigny

I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories, no unions, no heroism, no absolutes, no heartbeat. That world has rigor mortis.

~ Criss Jami

A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false.

~ Criss Jami

The dominant philosophy in today’s public university is called relativism, which categorically denies the existence of truth or moral absolutes. Those who are foolish enough to believe in such archaic notions as biblical authority or the claims of Christ are to be pitied—or bullied.

~ James C. Dobson

True inner righteousness does not judge according to custom but by the measure of the most perfect law of God Almighty by which the mores of various places and times were adapted to those places and times.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them, never can one measure one's velocity or morality in terms of absolutes.

~ David Gerrold

Never say never,” he said urgently, rolling back on top of her and using all of his unusually heavy mass to press her deep into the cocoon of her little girl bed. “The gods love to toy with people who use absolutes.

~ Josephine Angelini