The gods love to toy with people who use absolutes.

Nothing is ever certain.

Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.

Absolutes are Coercion.Change is absolute.

In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it

True inner righteousness does not judge according to custom but by the measure of the most perfect law of God Almighty by which the mores of various places and times were adapted to those places...

Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, ‘Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories,...

Historically speaking, just about everything we know to be ‘absolute’ will eventually change due to ‘new findings’.

Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one’s position in relation to them; never can one measure one’s velocity or...

Certain people, people who are certain, are always wrong—and that itself is certainly wrong because it’s always always.

I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we’ll load up the bar and put...

We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, ascribing to them an unshakeable faith in the triumph of virtue, as well as in the moral...

It’s partly true, too, but it isn’t all true. People always think something’s all true.

(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility,...