absolute quotes

• The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. (George Santayana) [more/absolute/beauty]
• Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. (Albert Camus) [absolute/virtue/forgiveness/logic]
• The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free. (Joseph Conrad) [spirit//absolute/mind]
• There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. (George Eliot) [absolute/sorrow]
• Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. (Michel Foucault) [absolute/art/moment/time]
• There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. (John Kenneth Galbraith) [absolute/beauty]
• Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. (Eric Hoffer) [absolute/faith/absolute/power]
• Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. (Eric Hoffer) [absolute/power]
• The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. (Charles Lamb) [content/absolute/truth]
• We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need. (Thomas Mann) [chaos/absolute/time]
• There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [facts/absolute]
• Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [nature/absolute]
• The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. (George Santayana) [more/absolute/beauty]
• We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger. (Albert Schweitzer) [absolute]
• It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion. (Robert Southey) [rest/absolute/nature/spirit]
• Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything. (Oscar Wilde) [portrait/painters/absolute/oblivion]
• It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. (Oscar Wilde) [tragedies/life/absolute/absurd]
• Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art. (Oscar Wilde) [absolute/taste/art]
• I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom. (Alan Rickman) [think/connection/absolute/discipline]
• For the screen, a great deal of repression was an absolute necessity. (Bela Lugosi) [absolute]
• I found the absolute thrill of translating ancient poetic text into totally visceral, tangible and even relevant, immediate and urgent language... I was thrilled by Shakespeare. It surprised me, my profound delight in deciphering Shakespeare and making it completely flesh-and-blood. (Ben Kingsley) [absolute/language/delight]
• I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way. (Ewan McGregor) [absolute/think/parents]
• “This is an absolute blast!” (Anne Heche) [absolute]
• Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters. (Annette Funicello) [absolute]
• “Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.” (Cate Blanchett) [absolute/education/being]
• “If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.” (Kim Cattrall) [willpower/absolute/genius/absolute]
• I did two movies with Elvis, and both times not only was he was an absolute joy, but the experience itself was wonderful. He was extremely professional--always on time, knew his lines, and was very much a part of the cast, never pulling rank as the "star." (Yvonne Craig) [absolute/joy/experience/time]
• “I should start off by saying that I have a very deep affection for American Idol . It's a brilliant show, an absolute phenomenon in the history of television, and I'm not just saying that because they had me on as a guest judge and performer last year -- I truly enjoy the show and would watch it even if the contestants didn't sing my songs as part of the competition and keep my music in the minds of the record-buying public. Now, William Hung ... well, he's certainly no Clay Aiken, my all-time favorite American Idol participant for obvious reasons. But I have a special fondness for William, too -- after all, when I was starting out, people said I was funny-looking and couldn't sing. And even when I became a gigantic pop star in the '70s, I had nearly as many people who hated me as adored me, and let me tell you, a lot of people adored me! Now, could William have done a better job singing my song 'It's a Miracle,' which you can find on several of my Greatest Hits albums? Probably. But if he keeps at it despite what the millions of people who despise him think, then perhaps one day he, too, will sign an eight-year deal to entertain at the Las Vegas Hilton on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights, two shows on Saturday, senior citizen and group discounts available.” (Barry Manilow) [absolute/phenomenon/television/competition]
• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice. (Jack Kevorkian) [absolute/absolute/choice]
• “I have absolute confidence that if everybody works hard for the next 24 hours, we're going to see Freddy come out on top,” (Barack Obama) [absolute/confidence]
• Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite. (Marlon Brando) [privacy/absolute]

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