Real Absolute

Famous quotes containing the words real and/or absolute:

“We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)