Auguste Comte Quotes

Today there seems to be only one absolute thing: relativism.

There are many levels of truth.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between?

Truth is an illusory notion.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

Evil to some is always good to others

Normal is all relative.

There is no such thing as an absolute truth to be discovered.

Everything is true Everything anybody has ever thought

But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.

I used to believe in em (lines). I don't anymore. They in our heads. Lines between black and white ain't there neither. Some folks just made those up, long time ago. And that go for the white trash and the so-ciety ladies too.

The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face.

Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.

You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

In my world, everything is possible and everything is relative.

Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.

Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human sensitivity. In this it is unlike all other knowledge.

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.

From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.