#absolute

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#achieve #any #aspirations #harmony #higher

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search. ↗

— Max Lerner

#absolute truth #approach #book #crime #effort

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#absolute truth #alone #belongs #thee #truth

Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#because #face #follows #just #like

I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men. But where I draw the line, what I absolutely won't do, is the lady who plays bridge in the afternoon! ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#absolutely #afternoon #bridge #draw #i

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another. ↗

— Seth Low

#altogether #another #brotherhood #city #dependence

When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#axioms #be true #believe #comes #feel

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

#book #condemned #could #i #months

And of course, I absolutely loved making Lost in Space as a kid. ↗

— Bill Mumy

#course #i #kid #lost #loved

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#another #body #human #human body #indifference