Quotes About Context

There is a vast difference between academic thought and intelligence. Academic thought can only function within the context of separativeness, whilst intelligence is a spontaneous co-operation with the fundamental wholeness that is inherent within the process of life.

Concepts such as age, place of birth and parentage can only have meaning within the context of personal history.

The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply.

Nothing is always absolutely so

All Scripture ought to be read in the spirit in which it was written.

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

By any measure, CapitalSource outperformed both our direct competitors and the financial services industry in general, particularly in the context of the near collapse of the financial services industry where 19 of the 20 largest financial institutions in the country either failed or were bailed out by the government.

Most students of Kissinger find it hard to say anything about Kissinger that isn't about the man himself. He is such an outsize figure that he eclipses his own context, leading his many biographers, critics, and admirers to focus nearly exclusively on the quirks of his personality or his moral failings.

Everybody's got baggage, and not just the classic, 'Oh I have so much baggage,' but everyone comes with so much context, and you're not just dating a person: you're dating all their context, too. Part of relationships is negotiating each other's context.

As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi.

I've got absolutely no desire or intention of damaging England.

I don't think I was very happy, and the problem with being a thirteen-year-old depressive is that when the rest of life is so uproarious, which it invariably is, there is no suitable context for the gloom.

reading a book doesn't mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There's no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it ten minutes later. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions, imagination.

all sorts of considerations determine the truth conditions of a statement, and these go well beyond the scope of grammar.

Recently I saw a movie in which people were eating take-out pizza in 1948 and it drove me nuts. There was no take-out pizza in 1948. There was barely any pizza, and barely any takeout.

Why are you carrying me?" "Well, it didn't seem neighborly to drag you by the hair.

we have BBML. You didn't say anything about BBML." "Possibly because I don't know what

Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.

Nothing can be appreciated in a vacuum.

Part of the complexity of living through history is the process of explaining things about the past that you never explained to yourself. So many temporary realties, distantly viewed in the rearview mirror, will appear ridiculous to any person who wasn't there.

The 1980 George W. S. Trow essay "Within the Context of No Context" argued that "the work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

What you don't understand, you can make mean anything.