Quotes About Context

Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines.

I talked about places, about the ways that we often talk about love of place, by which we mean our love for places, but seldom of how the places love us back, of what they give us. They give us continuity, something to return to, and offer a familiarity that allows some portion of our own lives to remain connected and coherent. They give us an expansive scale in which our troubles are set into context, in which the largeness of the world is a balm to loss, trouble, and ugliness.

Muhammad may have been, there is one detail that should not be lost in the tumult and confusion

Her olay nesneldir: Önemli olan ne anlama geldiÄŸi dÄŸeil, sizin için ne anlama geldiÄŸidir.

to remove a book from the period of its birth is like lifting a stone from a stream and watching it lose its luster in the palm of your hand.

Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes we find it convenient to use words in different senses.

It is a commonplace that good historians don't judge statements from past times by the standards of their own.

And, for speakers of Arabic and Indian languages, knowledge of the Qur'an or the Bhagavad Gita is presumably just as essential for full appreciation of their literary heritage.

Our sympathies are most required when they seem least due.

A choice architect has the responsibility for organizing the context in which people make decisions.

Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context.

For me, death is the one appalling fact which defines life; unless you are constantly aware of it, you cannot begin to understand what life is about; unless you know and feel that the days of wine and roses are limited, that the wine will madeirize and the roses turn brown in their stinking water before all are thrown out for ever- including the jug- there is no context to such pleasures and interests as come your way on the road to the grave.

How submerged does a reference have to be before it drowns?

Everything you wanted to say required a context. If you gave the full context, people thought you a rambling old fool. If you didn't give the context, people thought you a laconic old fool.

our version of the same event is also likely to be a reflection upon our own situation and suffering rather than a dispassionate and wholly factual account. We

With this new empathetic understanding of the context, we will find that we can imagine ourselves, in similar circumstances, feeling the same.

Again, what works well in the spiritual domain can become destructive and even immoral if interpreted literally and practically in the mundane world. It

in the context of 1881] Don't you want to get married and have babies? Mrs. Bergman used to say that women need- What women need is more exercise, shorter skirts, and their own way once in a while.

Failure presumes a lot of prior knowledge. Otherwise, how would you know whether a change represents failing? The word anomaly is important in this context because it refers to a cue that does not fit into a series, something that is a departure from common order, form, or rule.

A block of blood should not have the word cake after it...they might as well say shite gateau

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

Man is a child of his environment

Always blame conditions, not men

Don't change the man. Change his environment.