I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
“It’s worth reminding ourselves from time to time that gyrations in a stock price may tell us absolutely nothing about the prospects of the company involved.”
we know absolutely nothing about an atonement that is not a vicarious atonement, for that is the only atonement of which the New Testament speaks.
—J. Gresham Machen
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown
—Immanuel Kant
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
—Ernest Hemingway
My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that?
To make the truth more plausible, it’s absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it.
People have always done so.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
—Georg Hegel
I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
God is the absolutely independent One, the perfectly sovereign One. He is dependent upon us in no single respect, but we, both as we are naturally and as we are rationally and morally, are absolutely dependent upon Him.
—Herman Bavinck
The testimony of Scripture is the testimony of God. What the Scriptures say is absolutely sure. What the Scriptures say God says.
—R. A. Torrey
It is important to know the mind of man. It is absolutely essential to know the mind of God. The place to discover the mind of God is the Bible. This is the Book in which God reveals His mind
—R. A. Torrey
Sometimes it’s absolutely worth our time to respond to comments and sometimes it’s an absolute waste of time. May God give us the wisdom to know the difference.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If we suppose that Christ died without any absolute determination that any particular persons should be saved by his death, we must suppose that he undertook to die when he was wholly at uncertainties about the success of his death.
—Jonathan Edwards
Whatsoever is in God, is God Himself, from this Name Jehovah. He is an Absolute Being, nothing but Himself. This is the difference between God and any Creature.
—Jeremiah Burroughs