Relativist's Quotes

#1. Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not a relativist's position, and it displays the sense in which I am a convinced believer in scientific progress.

Thomas Kuhn

#2. The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the subjectivity of the here and now.

Simon Blackburn

#3. Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

Philip Johnson

#4. If the relativist claims that, since all reasoning is embodied in a particular social context, no claim to know the truth can be sustained, one has to ask for the basis on which this claim is made. It is, after all, a claim to know something about reality - namely that reality is unknowable.

Lesslie Newbigin

#5. The hero can never be a relativist.

Richard M. Weaver

#6. Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

Karel Capek

#7. It is impossible for a Christian to be a relativist.

Jacques Maritain

#8. The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes.

Simon Blackburn

#9. I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like many artists do their careers, they would not stay open a year.

Jack White

#10. With hope, a mind is always free.

Amy Tan

#11. I'm such a chronic relativist, I can't hold down a strong opinion about many things long enough.

Hugh Grant

#12. Whether you believe in Jesus, Buddha, the Beatles, crystals, mother earth, or anything else that takes your interest, all are held to be on the same footing; all have equal validity for the relativist.

John C. Lennox

#13. No one is a consistent moral relativist.

Nancy Pearcey

#14. I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

Edward Tufte

#15. The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear.

Simon Blackburn

#16. Here, Mortimer Wheeler thought, is power. And a reminder of our mortality.

Robert M. Edsel

#17. Most relativists believe that relativism is absolutely true and that everyone should be a relativist. Therin lies the self-destructive nature of relativism. The relativist stands on the pinnacle of an absolute truth and wants to relativize everything else.

Norman Geisler

#18. My essential identity is that of a writer.

Athol Fugard

#19. The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.

Simon Blackburn

#20. The skeptical relativist attempt to mandate a naked public square is undemocratic. It is also a danger to democracy.

Henry Hyde

#21. No sheep can be a king in the empire of wolves, but any wolf can be an emperor in the kingdom of sheeps! Paw is the key to the throne.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. I hate relativism . I hate relativism more than I hate anything else, excepting, maybe, fiberglass powerboats ... surely, surely , no one but a relativist would drive a fiberglass powerboat.

Jerry Fodor

#23. There is an obvious disconnect between someone's claim to be relativist and his own moral judgments, including his judgment that people ought to be relativist.

Vern Sheridan Poythress

#24. A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.

Bill Gaede

#25. Paradox is a pointer telling you to look beyond it. If paradoxes bother you, that betrays your deep desire for absolutes. The relativist treats a paradox merely as interesting, perhaps amusing or even, dreadful thought, educational.

Frank Herbert

#26. The only consistent response for a relativist is, "Pushing morality is wrong for me, but that's just my personal opinion, and has nothing to do with you. Please ignore me.

Gregory Koukl

#27. No One Is a Relativist at the Bank

John Piper

#28. Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.

Marcus Aurelius