Quotes About Relevance

things sort of equal to equal things sort of being equal to each other, it didn't much seem to matter.

All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern.

It exists only for me. For you, it would be nothing but an indifferent picture.

In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God. Without science, everything is a miracle. With science, there remains the possibility that nothing is. Religious belief in this case becomes less and less necessary, and also less and less relevant.

When it comes to understanding how our universe evolves, religion and theology have been at best irrelevant.

You know who Nicolaus Copernicus is?" "Was," Walker said. "Some old astronomer. Polish, I think. Proved the earth goes around the sun." Reacher nodded. "And much more than that, by implication. He asked us all to consider how likely is it that we're at the absolute center of things? What are the odds? That what we're seeing is somehow exceptional? The very best or the very worst? It's an important philosophical point.

Second conclusion: If you can see a bandwagon, it's too late to get on. I

Like a Zen question: If you put on a show, and nobody comes, have you in fact put on a show at all?

But nobody had been interested in inert and prosaic things like crowbars.

There is nothing sadder than an aging hipster.

preachertainment"?

What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.

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

important—unimportant—unimportant—important—' as if he were trying which word sounded best.

Unimportant, of course, I meant,' the King hastily said, and went on to himself in an undertone, 'important--unimportant-- unimportant--important--' as if he were trying which word sounded best.

Even dumb objects have their destiny. Rarely given a second thought, they perform their unconsidered duty day by day until their moment arrives and everything seems to hang on their location.

I'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters

There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.

Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself but the kingdom.

Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.

I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?

The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.