Quotes About Relative

While following religion, where 'any thing' is required, they are all called 'relative' paths.

Darconville drew it all out to this paradox, that on the one hand there are temporary beings whom we love but are ever changing, and beyond them there is the eternal object of love itself which is incorruptible, permanent, and ideal. And yet it is not only through the former that we can take cognizance of the latter, we would, without the former, actually have no idea of the latter, the imperfect relative giving us our only idea of the perfect absolute...

De esta forma se puede afirmar que el yo tiene una existencia real desde el punto de vista relativo pero irreal desde una perspectiva absoluta.

We're all martyrs and we're all villains. That's the truth for everything, because it's all subjective. It's all relative.

Failure is relative. Life is adventure. Everything has beauty.

At a banquet given in his honour Sir Jocelyn Hitchcock once modestly attributed his success in life to the habit of getting up earlier than the other fellow. But this was partly metaphorical, partly false and in case wholly relative for journalists are as a rule late risers.

Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

But weirdness is relative in the territory occupied by the mentally deranged.

So in the physics of the heart, distance is relative; it's time that's absolute.

Ein Spießbürger ist, wer ein absolutes Verhältnis zu relativen Dingen hat.

Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions.

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A white handkerchief in the shade may be objectively darker than a lump of coal in the sunshine. We rarely confuse the one with the other because the coal will on the whole be the blackest patch in our field of vision, the handkerchief the whitest, and it is relative brightness that matters and that we are aware of.

Tiberius, being his closest relative, called him by name and said, "Vale," "Farewell.

Yes, there is another brother. His name is Frankie.

Graham states, "Because average country income levels do not matter to happiness, but relative distances from the average do, the poor Honduran is happier because their distance from mean income is smaller." And in Honduras, the poor are much closer in wealth to the middle class than the poor are in Chile, so they feel better off.

Stouffer's point is that we form our impressions not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally—by comparing ourselves to people "in the same boat as ourselves." Our sense of how deprived we are is relative. This is one of those observations that is both obvious and (upon exploration) deeply profound, and it explains all kinds of otherwise puzzling observations.

Stouffer's point is that we form our impressions not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally—by comparing ourselves to people "in the same boat as ourselves." Our sense of how deprived we are is relative. This is

Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

Success and failure are relative categories. Therefore, do not exult in victory and do not despair after defeat. Accept the changes in life placidly, knowing that autumn and winter come after summer.

Success is relative, but happiness is absolute.

Success is a relative thing?and the victory of a boy at marbles is equal to the victory of an Octavius at Actium when measured by the scale of cosmic infinity.