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The Absolute
«No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.»
Author: Eugene Ionesco
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abolish, deliver, directs, Human condition, political system, political systems, social system, social systems, The Absolute, The Human Condition, The Social, thirst, vice versa
«The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.»
Author: Iris Murdoch
(Novelist, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
absolute, human body, indifference, major, mysteries, particular, substitutes, The Absolute, yearning, yearnings
«The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
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Pacifism
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pacifist, pacifists, The Absolute, uphold
«No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.»
«Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the propositionthat each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future.»
Author: Charles Lindbergh
(Aviator)
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custodian, custodians, customs, inheritance, in turn, laws and customs, owner, proposition, The Absolute
«There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence,»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Painting
| Keywords:
abstraction, increasing, interruption, interruptions, paintings, simplified, simplifies, simplifying, The Absolute
«May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best -- out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.»
Author: May Sarton
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ambiguous, at best, crystal, crystal clear, irrelevant, mixed, private life, relevant, singular, The Absolute, the Crystal
«Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Work,
World
| Keywords:
absolute, absolute truth, confuse, describe, Point of, point of view, representation, representations, The Absolute, world view
«Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
affords, An example, An example of, carrying, carrying out, elevating, napoleon, sacrificing, The Absolute