Absolutism And Relativism Quotes

#1. What's in your head is more important than what's on your head. - THE WIG: Crazy Summer

Renata Suerth

#2. We do not actually know other nations; we only know our judgements.

Bryant McGill

#3. Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their civilization. They confuse tolerance with relativism.

Bassam Tibi

#4. It doesn't matter that nobody sees your face or knows your name, my wide eyed child, my father said to me. You know it. You be it.
You are.

Patricia Raybon

#5. Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#7. Evil wasn't a force from some horrible underworld. It was the force inside people that allowed them to act in horrible ways.

Dale Mayer

#8. Ever step you take is forever.

Cormac McCarthy

#9. Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

Peter Kreeft

#10. In the crime novels, a PI is either an ex-cop or has some cop buddies who owed him a favor and who happily provided him with the department's files, while carrying on about how it could cost them their job. I had no cop buddies. I tried to avoid them as much as possible.

Ilona Andrews

#11. Books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.

Patricia Schroeder

#12. It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result - ruthlessness in political life.

Richard Hofstadter

#13. Sometimes i wake up and realize that i still miss you. Then i say to myself, i am just glad he did not lie to me. He was honest. He will find the right girl, even though it wont be me. 3

Carol R. Taylor

#14. Philosophically, I believe that libertarianism - and the wider creed of sound individualism of which libertarianism is a part - must rest on absolutism and deny relativism.

Murray Rothbard

#15. Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises ... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

Herman Melville

#16. Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.

Paul Erdos

#17. No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

Aristotle.

#18. If you are truly confident about something, you welcome honest questions about it.

Peter Kreeft

#19. It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

Peter Kreeft

#20. Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

Peter Kreeft

#21. Maybe everybody has a renegade tongue yearning to be on its own.

Toni Morrison

#22. The law of love is the ultimate law because it is the negation of law; it is absolute because it concerns everything concrete. The paradox of final revelation, overcoming the conflict between absolutism and relativism, is love.

Paul Tillich