Quotes About Relevance

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

For, dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true. Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt It will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor. As I sit here, and oftentimes, I wish I could be monarch of a desert land I could devote and dedicate forever To the truths we keep coming back and back to.

Remember: the greatest danger you face in the world today is that you are replaceable. As you get older, people who are younger, cheaper and more in tune with trends are rising up and threatening your position. Your only salvation is to mine your uniqueness, to combine various skills that set you apart. No one can do what you do. That is your endgame.

As he did not go into Society himself, he had got an idea that these things belonged to the things that didn't really matter. (We know of course that he was wrong, and took too narrow a view; because they do matter very much, though it would take too long to explain why.)

People only invoke history to ballast their arguments in the present." "Maybe

Indeed, it has to be said that the percentage of old human sayings and proverbs that are actually true is very far from 100 percent. Seems it may be less important that it be true than that it rhyme, or show alliteration or the like. What goes around comes around: really? What does this mean?

Shakespeare It is fair, though hardly very important, that to say or imply that the man of this name is not our greatest writer marks a second-rate person at best.

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right.

The only emotional connection of relevance is with my dog. My relationship with my dog, it's ridiculous.

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.

Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.

Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that.

Any religion whose messiah's name isn't recognized by Microsoft Word can't be that much of a threat.

I don't think Kant's approach to religion is any longer viable in its original form. But that does not mean it is simply wrong or that we cannot learn from it.

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

The greatest threat to religion in any society is not persecution, but rather apathy born of irrelevance.

I think people respect me because they feel like - I'm kind of like Christmas. I come back every year. You can't get rid of me. I just keep coming back.

However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is some assurance that the analysis is actually relevant.

Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.

Donald, I'm not sure if you're even aware of this, but the only difference between you and Michael Douglas from the movie, Wall Street, is that no one's going to be sad when you get cancer.