115 Quotes About Relativism

Anyway, what is ‘beauty’ apart from the combination of the letters of ‘buy’ and ‘eat’? The sense of beauty is so relative, that’s probably the beauty of it.

A fish only discovers its need forwater when it is no longer in it.Our own culture is likewater to a fish.It sustains us.

Many say that it is ethnocentric to claim that our religion is superior to others. Yet isn't that very statement ethnocentric? Most non-Western cultures have no problem saying that their culture and religion is best. The idea that it is wrong to do so is deeply rooted in Western traditions of self-criticism and individualism. To charge others with the "sin" of ethnocentrism is really a way of saying, "Our culture's approach to other cultures is superior to yours.

Some argue that in time there was a noticeable change in Ratzinger's position held during the Council. However, as he himself said, and others would say about him, "It is not Ratzinger who has somehow changed and suddenly become reactionary and conservative. It is the secular culture that has drifted beyond the pale.

The dominant philosophy in today’s public university is called relativism, which categorically denies the existence of truth or moral absolutes. Those who are foolish enough to believe in such archaic notions as biblical authority or the claims of Christ are to be pitied—or bullied.

I don't know what it is about "magic happens"-stickers on cars but every time I see one I wanna get out my permanent marker and sneak over and write underneath it "so does cot death".

Discordians reject objective reality and promote subjective relativism. Any group that rejects reality is finished. Discordians live in their own fantasy world, and nothing is more attractive to stupid people than that. Discordians believe in “Chaos”, and this is the wet dream of all idiots since its where reason, logic, knowledge, and understanding are wiped out, thus ensuring that the dunces are no longer at any disadvantage in comparison with smart people.

Relativism is vulgar materialism, thought disturbs the business.

In post-Nietzschean spirit, the West appears to be busily undermining its own erstwhile metaphysical foundations with an unholy mélange of practical materialism, political pragmatism, moral and cultural relativism, and philosophical skepticism.