Quotes About Context

We win with facts that are well expressed and frequently communicated; we lose with silence and indifference to the broader social context.

What I've found I really like about sci-fi is it can look at philosophical questions about humanity but in a different context. It can really make you think. That's what 'Doctor Who' does, even if it's a bit silly some other times.

The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh.

There is less precision in the Chinese than I have thought it well to introduce into my translation, and the commentaries on the passage are by no means explicit. But, having regard to the context, we can hardly doubt that Sun Tzu is holding up I Chih and Lu Ya as illustrious

No matter what your job is, the key is your context, your beliefs about your responsibility to customers and the relationships you intend to enjoy or endure with them.

To be sure, nobody who really thinks about history can take politics altogether seriously.

Nobody who really thinks about history can take politics altogether seriously.

Something is neutral only with respect to something else—like an intention or an expectation.

Your frame is a mental structure that determines how you see the universe. The viewpoint and fundamental meaning of a conversation are its frames."

The human mind defines things in relation to one another—without light the notion of darkness would be unintelligible

He was young, and he had grown up wealthy; he didn't have the context. In his head she'd faced the consequences he would have had to face. Embarrassment. An angry parent. A different, maybe less impressive school. He was not from a place where people got only one shot or were allowed only one mistake. In his world there were infinite chances.

eisegetical;

history is not what happened in the past, but the best story we can tell with the available material

As this poem illustrates, place is not just location, geography; place is history, family, the shape and context of daily life.

Hamlet o Macbeth se leen maravillosamente hoy; muy al contrario, me parece, de lo que ocurre con tantos otros que dependen de la escena

un diario de referencia que no solo contara los hechos, sino que fuera capaz de explicar sus causas, enmarcarlos en un contexto y elaborar un análisis y una reflexión en torno a ellos.

Words are only words

The problem with monotonic logic lies not in the hardness of its truth values, but rather in its inability to process context-dependent information.

I hope with this book to convince you that data are profoundly dumb. Data can tell you that the people who took a medicine recovered faster than those who did not take it, but they can't tell you why. Maybe those who took the medicine did so because they could afford it and would have recovered just as fast without it.

We always learn to be virtuous in a given context; there is no such thing as just learning to be generous or loyal in the abstract.

No se puede juzgar a los hombres fuera del contexto en que han vivido [...]. No hay que acercarse a la historia con los ojos de hoy.

No se puede juzgar a los hombres fuera del contexto en que han vivido —respondió el sacerdote—. No hay que acercarse a la historia con los ojos de hoy.

Joven, no se impaciente, la vida de las personas tiene sentido si se explica en su contexto, de lo contrario es difícil que usted entienda nada.

When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.