Quotes About Relative

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.

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

Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West.

Researchers find our reward systems are activated most when we achieve relative rather than absolute rewards; we're designed to feel best not when we get more, but when we get more than those around us.

King- Hamilton, Judge Alan ( b 1900 )'...I think he erred on the side of severity when he gave Janie Jones, the notorious madame, seven years after the jury had acquitted her'. 'Well, these things are relative of course. It all depends on what you've been acquitted of. Miss Jones was innocent of a very serious offence.

Probabilities are relative to background information.

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them; never can one measure one's velocity or morality in terms of absolutes.

First and foremost I feel I am a child of God ....Today I think that everything matters, but like a nice game of relative importance and value, certainly not absolute like conversion.

Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.

Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.

It doesn't matter if the compensation scheme is denominated in hundreds of thousands of pounds per week or in bags of potato crisps. It's all a matter of relative worth, because a lot of people either feel, or want to feel that they are more valuable than anyone else.

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.

I am not so famous. I'm known in a few countries like Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and around the Alps. Some climbers in Beijing know my name, and some in America, but I am not really famous. It's very relative, my fame.

The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.

Hence, there is no such thing as an absolute objectivity of attitude. The most rigorously determined attitude of objectivity is, at best, relative. We are human; we are the slaves of our assumptions, of time and circumstance; we are the victims of our passions and illusions; and the most our critics can ask of us is this: Have you taken your passions, your illusions, your time, and your circumstance into account?

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

Have the conviction that God is your only real relative and friend.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

Painters know that material needs are relative; and that the satisfactions of the mind are absolute.

The world in which we now live is a world whose outlook is so distorted that we absolutize what is relative (money-making, power, success) and relativize what is absolute (truth, moral values, and God).

However, the position of my books, and of post-modernism in general, which regards all representations, or maps, or models, as probabilistic and relative to their social context, Gross and Levitt dismissively call "perspectivism" (a good word in my estimation, so I cheerfully accept it). Gross and Levitt see perspectivism as an insidious threat to their One True Faith and a pathway downward to the bottomless abyss of nihilism.