Quotes About Relevance

By the way, goals and objectives are meaningless at the speed of light. At the speed of light, you aren't going somewhere, you're already there. On the telephone you're not going somewhere, you're there. And in the electronic world, going somewhere, you're there. And in the electronic world, there are no goals or objectives, we're already there. McLuhan CD-ROM

medida que conoce más cosas acerca de su situación y de los factores que la producen, otros elementos de los que tal vez no era consciente con anterioridad (por ejemplo, el papel del sistema de panchayats o la necesidad de un aporte adecuado de proteínas durante la infancia) también han adquirido importancia para ella.

So in his own way Guy Clinch confronted the central question of his time, a question you saw being asked and answered everywhere you looked, in every headline and haircut: if, at any moment, nothing might matter, then who said that nothing didn't matter already?

A host of other matters that affect the lives of many LGBTQ people—among them, health care, senior centers, immigration, poverty, homelessness, diet, and education—are currently given short shrift. Even those issues still being partially addressed, like hate crime legislation, are of uncertain relevance (and even potential harm) to much of the queer population.

Nobody will deny that there is an interest in philosophy today. But—is there anything at all left today in which man does not take an interest, in the sense in which he understands interest?

If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.

Why say something, he asked her, if your words mean nothing?

you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

The opinion of a clever man who has had no experience is really of less value than that of the man in the street who has actually been there.

One method of economy is 'leaving out' - firstly, everything that by the writer's standards is irrelevamt, in the second place everything that is obvious, i.e. which the reader can and should supply out of his own imagination. 'The more bloody good stuff you cut out the more bloody good your novel will be,' Hemingway advised a young writer.

it is an allegory of our times.

deve-se evitar toda prolixidade e todo entrelaçamento de observações que não valem o esforço da leitura. (...) É sempre melhor deixar de lado algo bom do que incluir algo insignificante. (...) Sobretudo, não dizer tudo!

If you want to earn the gratitude of your own age you must keep in step with it. But if you do that you will produce nothing great. If

No truth therefore is more certain, more independent of all others, and less in need of proof than this, that all that exists for knowledge, and therefore this whole world, is only object in relation to subject/perception of a perceiver, in a word, idea.

To whom did it matter? Did those to whom it mattered matter?

In the end it didn't matter of course.

Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered, the less it mattered. It

Victor Hugo: "If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

It's because it makes no difference to her at all whether I speak or not; as if I didn't exist and never had existed... the thing more inconceivable than one's death--never to have been born...

The destruction of this universe would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

For pragmatist philosophers such as these, a belief is valued as true because it is useful, because it works, because it brings tangible benefits to human beings and other creatures. Siddhattha Gotama's Four Noble Truths are "true" not because they correspond to something real somewhere, but because, when put into practice, they can enhance the quality of your life. In

Look, whatever hayseed laws you pass in Who-Knows-What - Hell-Knows-Where. Don't amount to a hill of beans back here, as your type might say.

Well, don't stand about like that, man; if you're no use you're certainly no ornament. Bring that in and tell me what it says.

good. In order to ignite the full ardency of dharma, The Gift must be put in the service of The Times.