Quotes About Relevance

Real philosophy is dense, impenetrable, so esoteric as to be unknown and so obscure as to be irrelevant... Maybe what I do is trivial, the philosophical equivalent of a Big Mac and fries

don Giussani toccava cose che ci riguardano in quanto uomini: le nostre preoccupazioni quotidiane, i nostri bisogni, le nostre perplessità e dubbi.

2. Seconda urgenza: il passato può essere proposto ai giovani solo se è presentato dentro un vissuto presente

Age is something that doesn't matter unless you're a cheese

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

In just a few more years, the current homogenized 'voice' of business—the sound of mission statements and brochures—will seem as contrived and artificial as the language of the 18th century French court.…[C]ompanies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone."4

Christ ought to be preached with this goal in mind--that we might be moved to faith in him so that he is not just a distant historical figure but actually Christ for you and me.

I had never before thought so clearly about all the scenes that took place when I wasn't there to witness them. And then, I had a stranger and less pleasant thought: not only was I not necessary to those scenes, and not necessary to those lives that continued to go on without me, but in fact, I was not necessary at all. I didn't have to exist.

[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.

What does the Dalai Lama's life teach us? Certainly, he is a sterling example of turning adversity into joyful service. But there is more to him than that: he is also a model of innovation and adaptation. He has taken the tenets of Buddhism and made them relevant to everyone. His message is not just about personal happiness and good karma; it is also very much about respecting the earth's resources, recognizing the equality of all people, and sharing with the less fortunate.

Sometimes all the energy you put into something you think matters doesn't matter one bit.

Knowledge of history frees us to be contemporary.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

These incidents might seem trivial, but they are not. Actions speak louder than words.

There is living and there is death," the Emperor said. "Pain is irrelevant unless it leads to the latter.

now they complained that the crazed music was too bizarre, and even worse, "irrelevant to students [and] metal- and textile-workers.

donner à chaque chose les tons qui lui conviennent"

The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.

The task is not to explain the being of the world but to interpret our place in the world based upon what we know about the world at the time, which is what is what the authors of the scriptures were doing and why we have to start all over again in every new age.

Everything published goes down the same chute out of the overbright glare of publicity into oblivion.

The prophets' task is to tell their own people what God intends to do with them, not to think about what people in hundreds of years' time may need to hear, though the preserving of their prophecies implies the conviction that they have ongoing significance. Further

One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.

As a lawyer, she never felt so worthy. As a person, she had never felt so needed.

It is almost impossible to exaggerate its significance.