“It is a great error to speak of the things of the world absolutely, and as it were, by rule.”— Francesco Guicciardini
“Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges towards an ideal view; it is an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible alternatives.”— Paul Feyerabend
“Morality differs in every society, and is a convenient term for socially approved habits.”— Ruth Benedict
“We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.”— Pope Benedict XVI
“Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism... Whereas relativism... looks like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.”— Pope Benedict XVI
“There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.”— Allan Bloom
“There is no sound basis for preferring any one of the known systems of logic as being the one and only 'true' logic.”— Alonzo Church
“The view that all is relative is a proposition to which, on its own terms, its claimants can hardly ask us to assent.”— Robert Conquest
“The problem is that no ethical system has ever been devised that is serviceable for all of humanity.”— Daniel Clement Dennett
“Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.”— William Ernest Hocking