Quotes About Context

So often when we historicize material, we use this big wide-angle lens.

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

Words take on many different meanings.

If you're doing something that's period, you've got to live in it, and you've got to make it resonate with you.

Sometimes it's about finding the right situation at the right time in this league.

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

We tend to paint the past only in extremes, as having been either categorically better than the present or irredeemably bad.

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

sociology of knowledge is concerned with the relationship between human thought and the social context within which it arises.

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

What might change in your context if you were to define success not by the numbers but as radically doing God's will? What are the markers of success to which God is calling you and your team? What fears or anxieties are you aware of as you even consider such questions?

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

Much of the skill in doing science resides in knowing where in the hierarchy you are looking – and, as a consequence, what is relevant and what is not.

If you put good apples into a bad situation, you'll get bad apples.

The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are created equal: the dead are innocent, the killers monstrous, the surrounding politics insane or nonexistent...The anonymous dead and their anonymous killers become their own context. The horror becomes absurd.

these low percentages are in the context of a lower voter turnout than

On the one hand philosophy is like any other human endeavour, situated within and confined by the context of its day and yet on the other hand, it tries to wrestle with and expand the boundaries of current thought.

Nietzsche's subtle, poetic, and entirely unsystemic attacks on academic style and thinking were predestined to be quoted out of context, and his pithy and often sarcastic observations could be put in the service of a wider assault on rationality itself.

I am taken aback by this excess precaution; in another context I would have found it ridiculous. But I understand the fear and panic he carries with him. I know how strong this fear is and also that it can't only be fear of being caught. It's a fear of himself too. A fear of what he is.

However, in fetishism the desired object is displaced; and in this context ("The Apparition" by Guy De Maupassant) it is the desiring object, so to speak. In other words, have we ever seen a boot in love with a fetishist?

mieux la retrouver au terme du travail de reconstruction de l'espace dans lequel l'auteur se trouve englobé et « compris comme un point ».

Whatever film it is, the geography has to be right. If I cannot establish it, I'll get lost. I wouldn't even understand it in the first place! I hence visit a place and decide what can be conveyed from where; how that can be incorporated in the story.

One of the questions I face when working on a book about a historical event is whether I should visit the actual place that I'm writing about. No matter how scrupulously maintained a historic house or battlefield may be, it is nothing like it was in the long-ago past.