Quotes About Relevance

Men delude themselves into thinking that the events in which they participate are of particular significance to history, but they rarely are. One empire is the same as another.

The wrong answer is the right answer to a different question.

If there is a moral in this book, it is not my fault. If there is social relevance, it crept in without alerting me, in which case I would have hit it with a stick." (from preface to a later edition of the novel)

As a consequence of Wittgenstein's philosophy, the questions once asked by philosophy have now passed into the realms of poetry. The way poetry is going, it looks as if they won't be asked much longer here either. We have learned to do without God, and it looks as if we will learn to do without philosophy. It will now, alas, join the ranks of subjects which are completed (and have become completely spurious), such as alchemy, astrology, platonic love, and stylitism.

Ce qui n'est pas ineffable n'a aucune importance.

Ce qui m'intéresse n'est pas toujours ce qui m'importe.

This was before I knew that we all live on this planet, driving in the cars of our own little minds, our own self-contained worlds. Yes, this was before I knew that, when I thought that I mattered, when I thought that people saw me, deep into me, saw all my love and excitement at being alive, saw the very glistening, running-overness of my aliveness. But we only matter when we do something awful. Then, someone sees us and only then.

What is the big deal about a couple of legs anyway?" Fyn looked at the medic. If she didn't know, he couldn't explain it.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Es uno el que está atento solo a las cosas que le competen y entonces recorta del infinito caos cotidiano justo lo que lo interpela?

Just as in Hollywood, what matters most is not the movie you made twenty years ago, ten years ago, or even just a couple of years ago, it's the one you made most recently that counts. You need to be constantly refueling your brag campaign to reflect changes in your circumstances and audience.

Old age is not the same thing as historical interest,' he said. 'Otherwise we should both of us be more interesting than we are.

O que importa é mudar a ovalidade do mundo sem dele fugir.

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

Statistics mean nothing to the individual. Not a damn thing.

Statistics mean nothing to the individual.

Selling to the right person is more important than all the sales methods, copywriting techniques, and negotiation tactics in the world. Because the wrong person doesn't have the money. Or the wrong person doesn't care. The wrong person won't be persuaded by anything.

I am growing old of course, but I am still in the early stages of disintegration, and regarded as just about cool enough by some fashionable young ppl to be permitted to think aloud.

Learning is stronger when it matters, when the abstract is made concrete and personal.

One man's nonsense is another man's sense.

Thus it has always been: Only in death do worthless people have worth.

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Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!