William James Quotes

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

Sin is geographical.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

Evil to some is always good to others

Evil depends on where you're standing.

Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.

I think evil is very relative.

The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.

Nobody has a franchise on what is good.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

The U.S. is not the holder of truth.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

How do I hold my truth to be the truth when everyone else believes their truth to be different.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

If we can't agree on objective truth, then how are we ever going to agree on opinions?

A search for truth seems to me to be full of pitfalls. We all have different understandings of what truth is, and we'll each believe - or we are in danger of each believing - that our truth is the one and only absolute truth, which is why I say it's full of pitfalls.

We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

There's no right or wrong just truthful or untruthful.

There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.