Quotes About Relevance

Far more than Thomas Aquinas or even Bacon, Ockham is the true forerunner of the modern era.

If any single factor really doomed Aristotle as the Middle Ages had known him, and helped reformers like Martin Luther shove him to the sidelines, it was the invention of printing.

Plato was crucial. His works provided a framework for making Christianity intellectually respectable, while Christianity in turn gave Plato's philosophy a shining new relevance. The supreme light of truth that had hovered outside Plato's shadowy cave was now revealed to be the light of Christ.8

And since all knowledge forms a whole, the corollary is never throw anything away. Every doctrine, no matter how esoteric or seemingly irrational or irrelevant, may hold yet another secret to understanding the rest.

A playwright is the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

One must be absolutely modern.

Il faut être absolument moderne

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

a large number of the Busters and Mosaics have rarely attended church, if at all. Their question for the established church is, Why should I attend your church when there are so many other things that I could be doing?

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

Para os profissionais liberais, executivos e trabalhadores das empresas, a frase Se você não mudar, morrerá quer dizer que, se não pensarem pela empresa e se reciclarem, serão ultrapassados, perderão sua competência. Se não abrirem as janelas de sua mente para prevenir erros e fazer além do que lhes é exigido, sufocarão o brilho de sua inteligência, deixarão de ser úteis.

It said to only quote notable people—am I not notable enough for Goodreads?

The argument in this book is that religious doctrines matter and are in need of reform.

Religions must continue to evolve to keep up with changing times, because only fittest shall survive.

Ensure that the career you are so passionate about is able to solve some burning problem or fulfils a basic need of people. Then you will be in demand.

The man of the modern world is used to speak what the modern world will hear; the writer of the modern world must write what that world will indulgently and pleasantly peruse.

It's very hard to rank performances. It's very difficult, and it doesn't really matter if you rank performances.

I don't know how their ranking goes or anything else, and I tell people I don't really care how the rankings go.

Ultimately, if someone's paying hard-earned money to see me play live, they don't want a rant about what's happening on the other side of the world. They don't want to know which way they should vote.

There's always a time when you think you've done your last song or you've written your last rap or, you know, people are not checking for you.

Chance The Rapper makes some of the greatest music out, and he build his brand up organically, and the fans have reacted to it.

I'll be, like, the oldest rapper alive.

I feel like when people are talking about how they make music or how they are the biggest rapper, I don't understand how that's relatable to people.