War Quote by Alan Sokal

“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…

— Clifford Geertz

One of those disturbing tendencies in academic life is that there is a desire on the part of many in the name of open-mindedness…

— Lawrence Summers

“I do not have it in for relativism. In many respects I find it a fascinating, even attractive, alternative. It engenders epistemological humility, defeats…

— David L. Wolfe

“Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others.”

— Timothy Snyder

“People are not relativistic when it comes to matters of science, engineering, and technology; rather, they are relativistic and pluralistic in matters of religion…

— Nancy Pearcey

Society today is being fragmented by a way of thinking that is inherently short-sighted because it disregards the full horizon of truth - the…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Once a structurally complete and closed system of opinions consisting of many details and relations has been formed, it offers enduring resistance to anything…

— Ludwik Fleck

“There is nothing truthful, wise, humane, or strategic about confusing hostility to injustice and oppression, which is leftist, with hostility to science and rationality,…

— Michael Albert

“Extreme religious and quasi-religious beliefs and practices, Christian and New Age and otherwise, didn’t subside but grew and thrived—and came to seem unexceptional. Relativism,…

— Kurt Andersen

“WE END UP with the following situation: on the one hand, we have a news agenda dominated by reports of the workings of a…

— Alain de Botton

“since they deal with matters that are the centre of conflict of opposing social groups where the effectiveness of an argument is often contingent…

— Sidin Vadukut

“we must guard against a tendency to require monolithic thought as imposed by political correctness.”

— Ben Carson