Harry Shearer Quotes

“If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?”

“Only through Absolution will you reach the Absolute.”

“It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.”

“You are saying that this world is destructible. No, even a single dust of the world is Absolute. In one form a man and at the same time a food is also Absolute. Though there is a change. Through changes everything remains Absolute.Human race still have not achieved their desired object. It cannot be fathomed what immense and infinite power a human body has. There is no end of it.”

“Why should one ever get pain? One is the Absolute Supreme Self (parmatma), how can one have any pain? It is the egoism that causes pain and it is also the egoism that suffers the pain! The absolute Supreme Self doesn’t have any suffering!”

“The reason many are loathe to acknowledge the possibility of absolute truth is not simply because they do not wish to accept the possibility of the existence of an all-powerful, all-knowing deity. It is because they do not want to accept the consequences that follow from the existence of an all-powerful, all-knowing deity as the source of absolute moral truth.”

“Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”

“Since nothing is absolute There is no absolute silence, Only an appearance Of temporary peace.”

“Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes”

“The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the most absolute of kings.”