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Letter "A" » absolute
«Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
absolute, absolutes, beings, capacity, granted, human beings, infinite, take for granted, taking
«Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
absolute, absolute truth, explore, high society, human society, in low spirits, I go, literature, lowest, low spirits, tale
«I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.»
«Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
| Keywords:
absolute, loyalty, principle, sacrifice, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing, The Absolute
«Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
absolute, actual, conform, conformed, conforms, region, region of
«I was thinking about how quickly it all passed and what an absolute joy it was -- even the bad days were good days.»
«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.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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absolute, absolutes, absolute magnitude, actual, certainly, circle, come into, exactly, existence, have-not, in a circle, known, line, one line, straight, straight line, There was, The Beginning
«Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
absolute, distrust, joyous, pathology
«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.»
«I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast.»
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