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"It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature." »Steven Wright
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"The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty." »Brooks Atkinson
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"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?" »Harry Shearer
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"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure" »Nicolas Boileau
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"absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power." »Eric Hoffer
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"Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their surroundings to any desired temperature." »Henry Albert Ben, _The Second Law_
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"Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians." »David Brinkley
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"Is there anyone that knows the absolute truth?" »Sorin Cerin
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"A moment's thought shows that man's feeling of isolation has no foundation, biologically or sociologically. We grow out of the Universe, we are an expression of it. The iron in our blood comes from the high temperature fusion of stars. We constantly interact with our environment. The force of gravity keeps our feet upon the earth and has a vital effect upon our metabolism. The air we breathe comes form the seas and the leaves, and the sun allows the process to take place. Society gives us all that makes us human our culture, our symbols, our concepts and our values. Without society, the notion of the individual would have no meaning." »Paul Ingram
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"There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute." »Patrick Stewart
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"Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity." »Bruce Lee
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature." »Cicero
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"My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made." »Robert Browning
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"Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists." »Thomas Huxley
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"Who can say what love at the feet of the absolute truth means?" »Sorin Cerin
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"My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made." »Robert Browning
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"The absolute truth is one for an infinity of possible relative truths which lie." »Sorin Cerin
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"But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute." »William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece Ver. 124
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"Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity." »Sorin Cerin
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"Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance." »Judge Learned Hand, Address "A Fanfare for Prometheus", January 29,1955
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"Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent." »Ernest Hemingway
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"Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated." »Søren Kierkegaard, Journal 1848
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"The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies." »Sorin Cerin
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"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority." »Thomas Huxley
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"Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essense of religion, namely, its absolute claims." »Morris Raphael Cohen
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"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise." »George Santayana
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"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope." »George Eliot
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"Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass" »Lewis Mumford
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