Quotes about Absence

Philosopher

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

Absence - Authority - Axiom - Belief - Hypothesis - Law

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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.

Absence - Fear - Strength

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Anais Nin

Writer

The child in me could not die as it should have died, because according too legends it must find its father again. The old legends knew, perhaps, that in absence the father becomes glorified, deified, eroticized, and this outrage against God the Father has to be atoned for. The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

Absence - Children - Death - Father - Human - Man

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Michel Foucault

Writer, Historian, Philosopher

I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.

Absence - Problem

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Neale Donald Walsch

Writer, Author, Author

You cannot know, and become, that which you are, in the absence of that which you are not, as I have already explained to you.

Absence - Inspiration - Religion

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Homer

Poet

O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.

Absence - Bravery - Children - Feelings - Home - Man - Parents - Thinking

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Toni Morrison

Athlete, Novelist, Novelist

There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance.

Absence - Activity - Certainty - Kindness - Mercy - Mindset - Passive - Peace - Reading - Thinking - Vigilance - War - Warrant - World - Writing

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Deepak Chopra

Author, Public Speaker, Alternative Medicine Advocate

Health is not just the absence of a disease. It's an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state of positive well-being.

Absence - Disease - Happiness - Joy - Laughing - State - Wellness

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Ayn Rand

Writer, Philosopher

He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to her. He knew that his absence bound her to him in a manner more complete and humiliating than his presence could enforce. He was giving her time to attempt an escape, in order to let her know her own helplessness when he chose to see her again.

Absence - Amusement - Boundaries - Giving - Order - Waiting - Wants

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Blaise Pascal

Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Theologian

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Absence - Pleasure

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George Eliot

Critic, Author, Novelist

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Absence - Accept - Fear - Fulfilment - Heathen - Making - Oneself - Quality - Show - Vanity

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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.

Absence - Buddhism - Illness - Praise - Speaking

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Swami Vivekananda

Philosopher, Clergyman, Author

The test of ahimsa is the absence of jealousy. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought of injury to anyone, who rejoices at the prosperity of even his greatest enemy, that man is the bhakta, he is the yogi, he is the guru of all.

Absence - Enemy - Guru - Injury - Man - Prosperity - Rejoice - Yogi

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Marcel Proust

Dramatist, Author, Novelist

Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more service than all the cosmetics and fine clothes in the world.

Absence - Clothes - Dining - Fashion - Harshness - Unconscious - World

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George Eliot

Critic, Author, Novelist

... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

Absence - Dining - World

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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

Ability - Absence - Freedom - Inspiration

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Augustine of Hippo

Theologian, Philosopher

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Absence - Government - Judging - Organizing - Ownership - Peace - Robbery - Sovereignty

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Neale Donald Walsch

Writer, Author, Author

Good health is not the absence of symptoms, it is the presence of peace.

Absence

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Writer, Statesman, Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.

Absence - Ethics - Meaning - Peace - Value - Violence

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Julius Caesar

Athlete, Leader, Roman dictator

Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.

Absence - Fear - Man - Mindset

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