Quotes About Relevance

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

The nature of search engines is that they can make a major issue out of something small that no person would otherwise be able to find.

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

That's the evergreen nature of a great song. They can be resurrected. They can be covered. They can find new relevance due to changing circumstances in history.

In Nature everything has a meaning; that is, every object is exactly adapted to the place it occupies, and to the purpose for which it was made.

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

Every human life bears a significant importance to the existence of humanity

She has no interest in human quarrels, for they are often petty and always pointless.

What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.

Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology.

To adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you're living in is the most important thing.

But I don't think we shall quarrel about a word - the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.

Who we are now is all that really matters.

We are all somebody to people, whose lives we do not touch.