Quotes by Absence Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly. John Stuart Mackenzie democracy absence culture Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. John Stuart Mill pain absence action Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that. Joko Beck enlightenment goal absence The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe virtue temptation absence The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe absent absence people In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow. Jonathan Cainer instinct certainty absence Simplicity is not the absence of clutter. Jonathan Ive clutter simplicity absence We moved up to Oregon when I was eight, and I think the radical absence of Jewish life here might have strangely made me feel more Jewish. It's a contextual thing I guess. Jonathan Raymond radical absence thinking This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence? Jonathan Safran Foer everything-is-illuminated hate absence The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple. Jonathan Ive design simple absence What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life. Joseph Epstein breathing-space aggravation absence Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. Jose Ortega y Gasset barbarism absence made The absence of theistic belief... Joseph McCabe atheism belief absence Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature. Joseph Addison absence kindness beauty Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real. Josephine Lawrence separation real absence He couldn't bear to live, but he couldn't bear to die. He couldn't bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn't bear to keep it, but he couldn't bear to destroy it either. Jonathan Safran Foer making-love absence bears In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams. Joseph Campbell pantheon absence dream The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing. Joyce Meyer pain absence mean Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder. Judith Viorst frozen absence heart I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them. Junot Diaz enjoy absence stories «4567891011121314»