Merely Relative Quotes
- Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong… — Thomas Jefferson
- He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For… — Thomas Jefferson
- Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute. — Flannery O'Connor
- A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t. — Roger Scruton
- A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with… — Karl Mannheim