Quotes About Relevance

While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.

Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old.

The thing about history is you don't know what the right side is till long afterwards, and by then it hardly matters." "That's the sort o' thing you hear from folk who know they're on the wrong side.

Shit at least makes flowers grow. Honour isn't even that useful.

Small things only seem smaller in large spaces.

One cannot despise a thing without acknowledging its importance.

The thing about history is you don't know what the right side is till long afterwards, and by then it hardly matters.

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes. And most of us would far rather have a king with no friends and no enemies, than a king with plenty of both. Most of us would rather have things stay as they are, than risk an uncertain future.

The best works of art have a tendency to fall through time differently than human beings. They remember, but they also anticipate. A good piece can mean different things to different people at different times, and all of those meanings are true, even if they contradict one another.

Your age doesn't matter," said The Big Guy, which was spoken like someone who had never fucked an old lady. I am not suggesting that I have....Oh hell. A few times, at fundraisers for charities back in the States.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.

it should remain part of today's Gospel message as well.

Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I'm not the only one who believes this. Please. As a culture, we think we're well educated, but I'm not sure that what we've learned necessarily helps us survive.

If you can't understand the spec for a new technology, don't worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won't be that important.

that the time is always ripe, that the place is here and the time is now.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

Nije li u me?uvremenu krš?anstvo što dalje to više gubilo tu osjetljivost za situaciju? Ono više ne najavljuje, ne naviješta, ono još samo ponavlja ono što jest pa ga onda iritira vlastita mjerodavnost koja nema nikakvih posljedica.

Nismo li možda tijekom vremena tuma?ili krš?anstvo suviše isklju?ivo kao religiju osjetljivu za grijeh te u skladu s tim premalo osjetljivu za trpljenje?

goes back to the design of the brain…. It's designed to pay attention to the stuff that matters to you.

Dr. James Williams—who works on the philosophy and ethics of technology at Oxford University—he told me: "If we want to do what matters in any domain—any context in life—we have to be able to give attention to the right things…. If we can't do that, it's really hard to do anything.

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

We can accept the unpleasant more readily than we can the inconsequential.

There is a lot of information out there. To the degree that your life changes, it is made useful or useless.