Quotes About Context

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

something the psychologist W. M. Mace said years ago, riffing on JFK: "Ask not what's inside your head,"9 he said. "Ask what your head's inside of.

Everything in life is relative.

And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.

In daily life language is important, if not in itself, then as a symptom.

A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.

You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.

all questions of interpretation are, in the end, questions about application,

We like to say that generalizations are always wrong and usually helpful.

We can easily forget that Scripture is a foreign land and that reading the Bible is a crosscultural experience.

when we project our own cultural mores onto the original audience of the Bible, we may fail to apply the Bible correctly in our own lives.

While behavior is almost always motivated, it is also almost always biologically, culturally and situationally determined as well.

This goes in the Turd cutter

Personalization is especially dangerous when it occurs across formal hierarchical or status boundaries, because even in small steps like eating and drinking together, we are temporarily putting ourselves on an equal footing and can ask one another questions or say things to one another that in the Level One context might be considered offensive and disrespectful.

In the culture of do and tell, the biggest problem is that we cannot really know how valid or appropriate what we tell or are told is to the situation, unless we ask.

You might be a firefighter if you've ever smoked and there wasn't a cigarette in sight.

Loss of the hippocampus in both cerebral hemispheres disrupts the formation of and access to long-term memory of integrated scenes. Unique events are no longer recalled even if objects and events can still be recognized outside a unique context. One is able to recognize a house as a house, but not the particular house where one has lived. The contextual, episodic knowledge acquired by personal, individual experience is no longer accessible. The generic, semantic knowledge is still recoverable.

Everything has a relevance,' remarked Holmes.

History provides no precise guidelines.

The bottom line is: Polls can be provocative, informative, fun or maddening. But as we move into 2020, it's important to be mindful that news organizations or those interpreting their polling results may not always be providing context that would allow us to have the most complete and accurate picture of the public's mood at a given moment.

You play to whatever publication you're being interviewed by.