Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius.
I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality.
I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for.
The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or bolshevik - is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it.
God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely.
If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this. . . it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.
Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps in--the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are. . . bound together by such mutual relations and adaptations s secure, if not the absolute permanence and equilibrium of both. . . at least a very slow and gradual succession of changes in those conditions. But man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
You have the absolute power to change someone's life with kindness.
Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself.
God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.
That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss.
Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.
It is necessary for the Bible, in order to be accommodated to the understanding of every man, to speak many things which appear to differ from the absolute truth so far as the bare meaning of the words is concerned.
Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.