94 Quotes About Absolutes

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.

Orthodoxy is the guardian of absolute values.

Don't think about absolutes, think about the details. Every day, every hour that you can maintain an information asymmetry, you do it.

It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.

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

There is no such thing as 'your truth'. There is the truth and your opinion.

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.

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.

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.