Absolute Quotes

“The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world. 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.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromise is the transmitting rubber tube.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.”
― Max Planck, Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science

“But we must not forget that all things in the world are connected with one another and depend on one another, and that we ourselves and all our thoughts are also a part of nature. It is utterly beyond our power to measure the changes of things by time. Quite the contrary, time is an abstraction, at which we arrive by means of the change of things; made because we are not restricted to any one definite measure, all being interconnected. A motion is termed uniform in which equal increments of space described correspond to equal increments of space described by some motion with which we form a comparison, as the rotation of the earth. A motion may, with respect to another motion, be uniform. But the question whether a motion is in itself uniform, is senseless. With just as little justice, also, may we speak of an “absolute time” --- of a time independent of change. This absolute time can be measured by comparison with no motion; it has therefore neither a practical nor a scientific value; and no one is justified in saying that he knows aught about it. It is an idle metaphysical conception.”
― Ernst Mach, Science of Mechanics

“It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.”
― Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

“Everything and nothing are the same in the Absolute.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“Since nothing is absolute
There is no absolute silence,
Only an appearance
Of temporary peace.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“If absolute power corrupts absolutely,
does absolute powerlessness make you pure?”
― Harry Shearer

“Relativism reduces every element of absoluteness to relativity while making a completely illogical exception in favor of this reduction itself. Fundamentally it consists in propounding the claim that there is no truth as if this were truth or in declaring it to be absolutely true that there is nothing but the relatively true; one might just as well say that there is no language or write that there is no writing. In short, every idea is reduced to a relativity of some sort, whether psychological, historical, or social; but the assertion nullifies itself by the fact that it too presents itself as a psychological, historical, or social relativity. The assertion nullifies itself if it is true and by nullifying itself logically proves thereby that it is false; its initial absurdity lies in the implicit claim to be unique in escaping, as if by enchantment, from a relativity that is declared to be the only possibility.”
― Frithjof Schuon, Logic & Transcendence

“Magnificat de Bach. Remué jusqu'aux larmes. Il est impossible que ce qui s'y exprime n'ait qu'une réalité subjective. L'« âme » doit être de la même essence que l'absolu. Et c'est le Vedânta qui a raison.”
― Emil Cioran, Notebooks

“Anytime somebody is absolutely certain about something, they are almost always absolutely wrong”
― Jeff Lindsay

“Absolute equals nothingness.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“We, that is, the traditionalists like myself, use the term ‘‘modernism’’ not in a vague way as characterizing just things that happen to be around today, but as a particular way of looking at the world, a worldview that began in the Renaissance in the West with such components as Renaissance humanism, rationalism, et cetera. As I have mentioned already, modernism rejects the primacy of absolute and ultimate truth transcending the human order and descend- ing upon the human realm from the Divine Order. It places man himself at the center of the stage as ‘‘the absolute.’’ In a sense it absolutizes the human being in his or her earthly reality. Usually it does not come out and say so explicitly, but that is what it really means; that is, it takes the absolute away from God and puts it on the human plane, and therefore makes human reason, human perceptions, human interests the criteria of reality, of knowledge, of the truth, of the goal of human life. Therefore, as a consequence it substitutes the significance of the temporal and the transient for the abiding and the eternal.”
― Seyyed Hossein Nasr, در جست‌وجوی امر قدسي

“Considering all this, we must reaffirm the great potential of language as an instrument of communication and for expressing the most complex thoughts and ideas. Not only that but in this way, language affects and shapes our thinking to a degree. At the same time, we must reiterate the limitations of language regardless of our desire to be as precise as possible. We can be sure that language is relative. Since language, as an instrument, is not absolute, there can be no absolute way of defining things. In this sense, we must learn to accept implications and hidden meanings as values equally crucial as the obvious ones. Hinting at something is more important and valuable than volumes of sterile compilations of strange words without a more profound sense and meaning.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“We may also think that, regardless of how insufficient our language or knowledge is, we can still arrive at conclusions stemming from something more profound than the knowledge or language but only expressed by language. If language (as we understand it) were an absolute instrument of thought, there would be no different languages but only one universal language of thought. Since this is not the case, we can express the same thought in different languages with different signs and sounds.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Let's agree that spoken language is not an absolute instrument of thought. Still, we must agree that language, as such, serves the profound purpose of communication primarily (on a fundamental level) and some other, more sublime purposes (great works of literature and philosophy, for instance). The primary purpose of language, as one of the phenomena of existence, must be analyzed as a phenomenon with its existence and essence. Only when defined with the highest degree of accuracy, can its essence be applied to existence as the totality and the world.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“It is possible to imagine nonverbal communication of thought on a much higher level than the one we possess. First, we must determine the shortcomings and advantages of verbal communication [and communication in general].”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Although language, as we know it, helped humans acquire supremacy over other animals, if we follow evolution, we could easily infer that language is still only a purely animalistic expression, regardless of how advanced it seems to us compared to other animals. But what the real potential and possibilities are, we barely know or try to explore and understand.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“It is a different and huge subject if language or communication must be in the way we, as human beings, think language is, how it functions and expresses thoughts. Different beings with intelligence, somewhere in the Universe, use different types of communication than our own, not only in their languages but also in how they communicate. Depending on their stage in development, their communication abilities would be more advanced. We can only imagine the behavior or communication among the beings belonging to a civilization a million years or more ahead of our own. We can imagine that if we, as human beings, were able to survive that long, in the distant future, we would be so advanced compared to us now that it would be like comparing different species.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Can thought exist without words? Are visions, for example, visual thoughts? What would, potentially, be the most sublime form of language and communication? Is thought possible without language in our sense of the word? What would be a pure thought?”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“If our entire Universe is smaller than the Planck length before the Big Bang, that is proof enough for me that it is immaterial and powered by the original immaterial Universal Source (the Universal Spirit). This is the point of appearance and disappearance.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Based on my idea of the Universal immaterial Source of everything, the basis of all information and all existence can never disappear as an ultimate potential. Nevertheless, we cannot be sure that the information about all particular existences and Universes is saved. The question is more if there is a reason for that than if it is possible. For example, if the whole universe, like ours, disappears, would it be necessary that all information is saved? The sole existence of the universe is information. The destruction of “matter” does not mean the original information on which “matter” functions can disappear. What disappears is the illusion in the form of energy and matter. But primordial information, or the Source that provided information for forming energy and matter, is not the memory of what is created and cannot be lost. I believe what is used initially is saved, but the universe's memory is lost. Still, if we look at it from the point of absolute potential, this memory is “not lost” because it can be “recovered” or repeated in the working of the absolute potential as a recurrence. Absolute potential means that the same universe with the same “life” and evolution can exist again.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“When, at the speed of light, the mass becomes “infinite,” that is the moment of absolute, infinite density when space disappears. “Infinite” density is the “point” of disappearance. The spaceless point of zero is the channel between the Being and Nonbeing, between existence and nothingness. Through this zero point, the Universal Mind “materializes” itself by creating “matter” and the existing universe. That is the “point” before the Big Bang, the point of absolute density and no space or time. Absolute density is the “point” before the dispersion of Oneness (Singularity) into materialized plurality.

Infinite mass is impossible. The state of absolute mass would be when everything would transform into mass, and the void would disappear. That is impossible. Reaching the state of infinite mass is the same state the “mass” or “energy” was in before the Big Bang. That state is the state of no mass and no energy. Absolute “density” is the state beyond matter and energy. This state is immaterial. The effect of the infinite kinetic energy would be equivalent to the infinite mass if possible.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Gravitational pull is the Max Plank’s vibration, which, as a source of motion, is the source of the gravitational pull, without which kinetic and potential energy would be zero. At this point, everything stops. At the speed of light, an object has infinite kinetic energy, which equals infinite mass. This infinite kinetic energy or infinite mass is static and massless. That is the point of absolute density. The world becomes static when its mass reaches the point of absolute speed, which would be equivalent to the same infinite point reached by the mass traveling at the speed of light. This is not infinite mass but an effect of the kinetic energy produced by the speed of light equal to the infinite mass. This proves my point that everything would stop if it were not for the kinetic energy and the “gravitational” pull fed by the immaterial Universal Source of everything.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“If there were no motion, not only would all objects stop but disappear. Motion is vital to energy and matter; it is their life, their l'énergie spirituelle, to use Bergson’s term. To put it simply, no motion, no mass. Motion equals mass, in a way. Concentration and “quantity” of motion from the micro to the macro level equals the quantity of mass. The bigger the total output of motion from the micro point to the measured point, the bigger the mass. The whole family of the Universe (Omniverse) is kept alive and together owing to the primordial Universal immaterial Source—Ultimate Force feeding motion and the whole of the Universe and existence with its underlying force—Ultimate Reality and the basis of Everything.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“But there again we have clung desperately to an idea of absolute, and this is the real cause of tragedy: our clinging to an idea of what should be rather than trying to understand what is.”
― Anaïs Nin, D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study

“According to the standard view of the main religions, God created the Universe. According to this standard, the Universe is material, but the Creator is immaterial. On the other hand, we can imagine that the Universe has always existed, and if that were the case, there would be no creator to create it; “it simply is” (Bertrand Russell).”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“In an intellectual aspirant the safest love is for an imaginary object, and that, perhaps, includes all love without possession. If we are to beget unrealities, we must know how to be happy with clouds.”
― F.H. Bradley, Aphorisms