Absolutes Quotes

“Nothing is ever certain.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“In this treacherous world
Nothing is the truth nor a lie.
Everything depends on the color
Of the crystal through which one sees it”
― Pedro Calderón de la Barca

“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, Starcrossed

“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, Killosophy

“There is no such thing as 'your truth'. There is the truth and your opinion.”
― Ben Shapiro

“Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“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, Getting Naked with Harry Crews: Interviews

“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, Flaubert's Parrot

“Even then, she knew that there is no such thing as sure. There is no absolute anything. The gods love to fuck with us.”
― Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

“In passing we should note this curious mark of our age: The only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute”
― Francis A. Schaeffer

“The public, which has been wrong before and is wrong now, can accept only demons and angels on the stage”
― Theophille Gautier

“(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, Schismatrix

“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, Star Hunt

“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

“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, Stello

“Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute. Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolute. Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter’s stomach, is an absolute.”
― Ayn Rand, The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“Don't think about absolutes, think about the details. Every day, every hour that you can maintain an information asymmetry, you do it.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“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

“Are you absolutely sure there are no absolutes?”
― Patrick Friar

“Is life a game of yes or no? I wonder about the absolutes that we try to create for ourselves, our relationship, our life choices. We try to make things black and white when sometimes it is much more grey.”
― Savi Sharma, This is Not Your Story

“Morality makes sense only in a theonomous culture”
― Royal Raj S

“It is obnoxious when one speaks in absolutes, when one could be so absolutely wrong.”
― Monika Whitfield

“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, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“Creativity abides no absolutes.”
― Shannon Taylor Hodnett

“My aversion to the use of the word 'absolute' is directly related to the tendency of religion to utilize the word for quelling conversation, for controlling dogma, for limiting the human capacity to communicate God in word and deed.”
― Phillip Michael Garner

“We know that absolute, though partial, knowledge is possible through Christ.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“We know that absolute, though partial, knowledge is possible through Christ. We’re confident because we know Jesus Christ. Yes. He’s real and knowable. He provides true premises with which to understand the material observations.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“We know that the Bible is God’s word without error because God reveals that it’s the word of God without error.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“Everything in his mind is either one thing or the other. Right or wrong. There's a thrill in that clarity.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers