Quotes About Context

In a competition for mates a well developed capacity for self-deception is an advantage. The same is true in politics and and other contexts

that if one of the executioners had not moved them, they would have been cut off.

The Bible's message must not be subjected to cultural imperialism. Its message transcends the culture in which it originated, but the form in which the message was imbedded was fully permeated by the ancient culture.

The present is a text, and the past its interpretation.

Logic is relative.

But he was not acting in this performance—they were.

But this is human life: the war, the deeds, The disappointment, the anxiety, Imagination's struggles, far and nigh, All human; bearing in themselves this good, That they are still the air, the subtle food, To make us feel existence. -Keats, Endymion This is the 'goal' of the soul path – to feel existence; not to overcome life's struggles and anxieties, but to know life first hand, to exist fully in context. (Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul, p.260)

In Spanish, the word esposas means both 'wives' and 'handcuffs'.

Behavior isn't something someone "has." Rather, it emerges from the interaction of a person's biology, past experiences, and immediate context.

When asked to spell Mississippi the boy asked "The river or the state?"

Whether B2B or B2C, I believe passionately that good marketing essentials are the same. We all are emotional beings looking for relevance, context and connection.

Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.

The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs... I'm interested in the experience of sculpture in the place where it resides.

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

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.

Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.

My level of immaturity changes depending on who I'm with.

Nothing in this world is Good or Bad. Our thinking makes it so. A knife is good when a surgeon uses it to save a life & bad when a terrorist uses it to kill.

What weight does the glory truly hold, when the arena that you were playing in was not significant to begin with?

Words change depending on who speaks them; there is no cure.

Een vriend zegt dat gender voor hem net zoiets is als kleur. Gender en kleur delen een zekere ontologische onbepaaldheid: het klopt niet helemaal om te zeggen dat een voorwerp een kleur ís, noch om te zeggen dat het een kleur hééft. Ook de context verandert: 'alle katten zijn grijs', et cetera. Ook is kleur niet echt iets 'vrijwilligs'. Maar geen van deze formuleringen betekent dat het voorwerp in kwestie 'kleurloos' is.