Absolutes Quotes
Thoughtful lines questioning certainty and belief
These quotes wrestle with the idea of absolutes across very different fields, from monotheistic certainty in human thought to whether anyone can truly believe without question.
I think it's the tendency to want to create gods and monotheistic absolutes and absolute certainties that is the continual temptation in human thought - that's the great danger. Every time we create a god, we diminish humanity.
The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.
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But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
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I'm basically a happy person. I'm content with my life and my wife and my family. But you do reach a point where you start to question the absolutes that are supposedly out there, and you realize that there simply...
There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokerage firms; there will always be people who set out to deceive the regulators and even deceive their own senior management.
Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.
Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.
Our absolutes should always be hypothesis. They should never be confirmed as fact because everything that we construct through our perceptions, through our memories, is so corruptible. The skills that I have can really display that.
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Others apply the word more practically, warning that there are no absolutes in finance either, since mistakes and deception remain possible in any brokerage firm.
