Relative

Famous quotes containing the word relative:

“Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.”
—Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)

“It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)