Quotes About Context

With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time to time.

Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

Sometimes there is a microcosm and a macrocosm, and if you're dyslexic like me you can't tell the difference.

In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.

Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.

In a political context of the utmost significance, ["freedom from fear"] recognizes a human right which, in a broad sense, may be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

Put your past into context, live the first day of your best life.

nothing is wrong and nothing is right in this world, it's all about the matter of justification only.

Every politician brings in a wide range of context, promises and characters to bring his mission of you to listen to his words and vote for him and later he won't listen to you at any range.

It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.

Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined to poetry.

When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.

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

But it's one thing to feel that a book can speak beyond its particular time and place to something universal, and another to ignore the circumstances and time in or about which it was written.

If words happen to be still dubious, we may establish their meaning from the context; with which it may be of singular use to compare a word, or a sentence, whenever they are ambiguous, equivocal, or intricate.

the safest course seemed to be to stay within the sources of their own time, written at the moment by those who knew the men and witnessed their acts, and as much as possible to use the directly contemporary writings of the men themselves

In his own way the modernist becomes as irrelevant as the fundamentalist. The fundamentalist has something to say to his world, but he has lost the ability to say it. The modernist knows how to speak to his age, but he has nothing to say.

We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed.