Quotes About Relative

did not overlook the broad principle that in war as in life everything is relative.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab.

I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are electic.

A lot of times, you'll be flipping through country radio and there's just no substance. Like I've said before, it's all about props: Solo cups or whatever. It's not about a dude's work day or someone that lost a good friend or relative. There's nothing to hold onto when you're going through something.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

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

time as a relative experience, different for the jogger, the lover, the tortured, the leisured. N-W

There are no absolutes for something so relative as a human life. There are no rules for something so gentle as a heart.

The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth.

Sufis deny the absolute reality of time, space and physical form. These things are both relative and local. They only appear to be absolute.

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

Los Sufis niegan la realidad absoluta del tiempo, el espacio, la forma física. Estas cosas son relativas y locales. Aparentan ser absolutas.

La existencia de una verdad relativa no prueba la inexistencia de la verdad universal.

Absolute values are the things that are important whether you like them or not. Relative values depend on social contexts and personal preferences and conditions of life. Our current market system pursues relative transient values at the cost of absolute lasting values.

Recognizing Nothing as one's true nature, following the guidance of our conscience - having a clear distinction between absolute and relative values, and using the Earth as the external absolute scale that matches the internal absolute truthfulness.

What is missing in our economic system is a central value that can encompass everything that can be transacted and used to assign the proper relative value to everything.

To unlock the greatest mysteries we must accept that we are nothing and all that we do know is relative to the size of The Earth in the universes.

Babette looked too good for the place tonight, but then goodness is only relative after all ("Steps Going Up" aka "Guillotine" aka "Men Must Die")

To the predators... Weinstein, the stranger, the relative, the boyfriend... I say to you, 'You can choose your sin but you don't get to choose the consequences.' To the victims... I see you. I believe you... and I'm listening.

The house wasn't large, by the neighborhood's standards, but that was like saying that a bale of hay isn't much to eat, by elephant standards.

From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest. Darkness, you know, is relative.