Quotes About Context

We need leaders who can reflect theologically and help develop more robust thinking that understands how context affects our understanding of God, humankind, the fall, and redemption.

I don't know why I get away with some things. But I'm not a misogynistic, racist person. Yet I do find those jokes funny, so I say them. And I try to say everything kind of in a good spirit.

Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.

It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.

Very good laws may be ill timed.

Let me say to you what I said once, in an entirely different context to Catherine the Great," Magnus declared. "My dear lady, you cannot afford me,and also, please leave that horse alone. Good night.

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.

As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.

Just because something makes you smile or laugh ... doesn't mean it's a joke.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing

The historian amputates reality.

One can argue that in the context of history a few years do not matter. But we live in an age in which every moment counts heavily and the price of delay is human lives.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

All history is contemporary history.

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.

All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.

EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

History is no criminal court

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of self-awareness are a homeland.

If you don't understand history, you will not be able to deal with today's issues.