Quotes About Relativism

We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God's truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

Damn the Absolute!

There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

The apparent relativism of perspectivism is held in check by Nietzsche's naturalism (which offers the doctrines of becoming and will to power in place of all theological interpretations) and that the apparent dogmatism of these doctrines is mitigated by his perspectivism (which grants that these doctrines are themselves interpretations yet ones that are better by naturalistic standards).

Two different people appealing to a search engine with the same question do not necessarily receive the same answers. The concept of truth is being relativized and individualized—losing its universal character.

Naturalmente... Ma sa com'è? Una volta, in un libro di filosofia, a proposito del relativismo, ho letto che il fatto che noi, ad occhio nudo, non vediamo le zampe dei vermi del formaggio non è ragione per credere che i vermi non le vedano... Io sono un verme dello stesso formaggio, e vedo le zampe degli altri vermi.

The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about 'what is true for me' is an evasion of the serious business of living. It is the mark of a tragic loss of nerve in our contemporary culture. It is a preliminary symptom of death.

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.

The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about "what is true for me" is an evasion of the serious business of living.

The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust, is better than A Shore Thing, by Snooki. And it may be; Snooki definitely has more one-star reviews on Amazon. But if literary value is real, no one seems to be able to locate it or define it very well. We're increasingly adrift in a grey void of aesthetic relativism.

No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong.

Who or what is driving it? Well, no one can really say, or see. Who is the leader, the face? Nobody. If there is any driving "philosophy" that rules the modern world, it is the dictatorship of relativism, in which everyone is his or her own guiding power. Such is another apt phrase of Benedict that goes hand in hand here.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.

The notion that someone who does not hold your views holds the reciprocal of them, or simply hasn't got any, has, whatever its comforts for those afraid reality is going to go away unless we believe very hard in it, not conduced to much in the way of clarity in the anti-relativist discussion, but merely to far too many people spending far too much time describing at length what it is they do not maintain than seems in any way profitable.

Her last sentences urged acceptance of cultural relativism and tolerance of differences.

conformity created maladjustment and tradition could turn psychopathic. Her last sentences urged acceptance of cultural relativism and tolerance of differences.

Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people can learn things and relativise things.

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.

these relativists turn out to be not relativistic at all about one thing: their relativism. That's their one nonnegotiable absolute.

As I said, relativism says there are no absolutes. Absolutely no absolutes.

moral relativism, a position many find attractive only until they are faced with someone who is doing something really, really wrong.