Quotes About Relevance

If you understand there is nothing to lose, because anyway you came with nothing and there is nothing to lose, the fear of death will not be relevant.

No tradition, however time-honoured, deserves to live on as anything more than a museum piece if it has outlived its relevance.

Time is more important to me then distance

You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, What are your thinking about? you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.

The opinion of 10,000 people is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

Cast aside all that is extraneous and superfluous, and cling to the few things that really matter.

44. Give yourself a gift: the present moment. People out for posthumous fame forget that the Generations To Come will be the same annoying people they know now. And just as mortal. What does it matter to you if they say x about you, or think y?

You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, "What are you thinking about?" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.

everyone is worth just so much as those things are worth in which he is interested.

Yet because the Bible is a human product as well as sacred scripture, the continuing dialogue needs to be a critical conversation. There are parts of the Bible that we will decide need not or should not be honored, either because we discern that they were relevant to ancient times but not to our own, or because we discern that they were never the will of God.13*

I am not among the relatively few scholars who think that only that which is historically factual matters.

Nobody is any authority on the fucks other people give

I don't know why they are all so eager to be remembered. What good will it do them? There are some things that should be forgotten by everyone, and never spoken of again.

Can a single ant be said to be alive, in any meaningful sense of the word, or does it only have relevance in terms of its anthill?

A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.

I tell myself it doesn't matter, your name is like your telephone number, useful only to others; but what I tell myself is wrong, it does matter.

I don't know why they are all so eager to be remembered. What good will it do them? There are some things that should be forgotten by everyone, and never spoken of again.

People always forget about prophecies unless they come true.

But I'm ravenous for news, any kind of news; even if it's false news, it must mean something.

But I'm ravenous for news, any kind of news; even if it's false news, it must mean something. We

Context is all; or is it ripeness? One or the other.

Ignorieren ist nicht das gleiche wie Ignoranz, man muß etwas dazu tun.

your name is like your telephone number, useful only to others; but

Canlit might not exert the fascination of - say - a venereal wart.