It is [the] belief in absolutes, I would hazard, that is the great enemy today of the life of the mind. This may seem a rash proposition. The fashion of the time is to denounce relativism as the root of all evil. But history suggests that the damage done to humanity by the relativist is far less than the damage done by the absolutist - by the fellow who, as Mr. Dooley once put it, "does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He only knew th' facts in th' case."

Famous Quotes / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: "It is [the] belief in absolutes, I would hazard, that is the great enemy today of the life of the mind. This may seem a rash proposition. The fashion of the time is to denounce relativism as the root of all evil. But history suggests that the damage done to humanity by the relativist is far less than the damage done by the absolutist - by the fellow who, as Mr. Dooley once put it, "does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He only knew th' facts in th' case.""

Quotations about

Absolutes	Absolutist	Belief	Case
Damage	Denounce	Done	Dooley
Enemy	Evil	Facts	Fashion
Fellow	Great	Hazard	History
Humanity	Knew	Life	Lord
Mind	Once	Proposition	Rash
Relativism	Relativist	Root	Seem
Suggests	Thinks	Time	Today

Quotes by Power Quotations

It is [the] belief in absolutes, I would hazard, that is the great enemy today of the life of the mind. This may seem a rash proposition. The fashion of the time is to denounce relativism as the root of all evil. But history suggests that the damage done to humanity by the relativist is far less than the damage done by the absolutist - by the fellow who, as Mr. Dooley once put it, "does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He only knew th' facts in th' case." - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.