Quotes About Context

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

It's not about the language, it's about the message

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.

Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

In the context of real life, the Bible seems refreshingly whole, an honest reflection on humanity in relation to the sacred and the profane.

But the text recorded it as 'Hell, you're in my hand'—an H instead of a W." Irene grimaced. "You mean everyone who sees that text will believe my husband swore at his sword?" "I'm afraid so," Chem said apologetically.

The real meaning of stories depends on where they're told, when and to whom.

Now, then. What does 'fucking' mean?

Ah? Oh, it means honeylips, all right. More or less." "But—" "It's no your mouth he was referring to, Sassenach," Jamie said dryly.

I think 'Robbin' Season' helps put the city of Atlanta in perspective.

there is a tendency to forget that all science is bound up with human culture in general, and that scientific findings, even those which at the moment appear the most advanced and esoteric and difficult to grasp, are meaningless outside their cultural context.

This means that knowledge rejected and disapproved of can also exist, but can be placed elsewhere than within the contexts of approved knowledge.

It is necessary to distinguish the nationalism of the oppressing nations from the nationalism of the oppressed

A stone, a figure, a sign, a word reaching us isolated from its context is only that stone, figure, sign, or word: we can try to define them, to describe them as they are, and no more than that; whether, beside the face they show us, they also have a hidden face, is not for us to know. The refusal to comprehend more than what the stones show us is perhaps the only way to evince respect for their secret; trying to guess is a presumption, a betrayal of that true, lost meaning.

Meanwhile, in the satisfaction you receive from her way of reading you, from the textual quotations of your physical objectivity, you begin to harbor a doubt: that she is not reading you, single and whole as you are, but using you, using fragments of you detached from the context to construct for herself a ghostly partner, known to her alone, in the penumbra of her semiconsciousness, and what she is deciphering is this apocryphal visitor, not you.

To be able to read the classics you have to know "from where" you are reading them; otherwise both the book and the reader will be lost in a timeless cloud.

Ogni libro nasce in presenza di altri libri, in rapporto e confronto ad altri libri.

You try to picture how the world might appear, this world dense with writing that surrounds us on all sides, to someone who has learned not to read.

though there are some foods you don't know, mentioned by name, which the translator has decided to leave in the original; for example, schoëblintsjia

The same Christ Jesus is not the same for everyone, because people are different. He has one profile for the poor and another for the rich, one profile for the sick and another for the healthy.