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Relative Quotes by Socrates
- A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it…
- Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When…
- A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it…
More Relative Quotes
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac
- To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books… — Russell Banks
- It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes… — Dave Barry
- A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. — George Ade
- 'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year… — Annie Besant
- Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative. — William S. Burroughs
- Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some… — Octavia Butler
- Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation… — Albert Camus
- Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in… — Chanakya