29 quotes found
“When facing society, the man most concerned, the man who is to do the most and contribute the most, has the least say. It's taken for granted that he has no voice and the reasons he could offer are...”
“most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.”
“...Data itself... was tolerable. It was the constant nerve-web-expanding pain of context that would kill him.”
“To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety ...”
“What's writ is what's read, yet the meaning is gone, since context is what gives each quote its own home.”
“Great experiences are built on a foundation of bad experiences.”
“You judge people in the context of their time, not in the context of ours.”
“Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.”
“But however minimal, however threadbare, it (collective memory) is ballast of a kind. We all need that seven-eighths of the iceberg, the ballast of the past, a general past, the place from which we...”
“Man is a coward in space, for he is by himself.”
“...you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ...”
“Having contact sheets for all sorts of episodes in your life seemed to me intriguing and desirable. So much of my own history is beclouded by time, but a few sharp rays, in the form of pictures, fa...”
“Hippasus proofor at least Nicos retelling of itwas really so simple that when he finished sketching it out, I wasnt even aware that we had actually proven anything. Nico paused for a few minutes to...”
“Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo."Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.”
“Do you follow the wrestling? Most people think it's illegal, but you can watch it there. Ruby and Python are on display this evening.”
“Of course, in television's presentation of the "news of the day," we may see the Now...this" mode of discourse in it's boldest and most embarrassing form. For there, we are presented not only with ...”
“Writers use narratives to select from everything there is, and make contexts by putting the pieces into relation; thats what writers do, they make contexts.”
“One who has lived through the days of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and the Japanese war lords feels something that a younger generation does not concerning the aberrations that are possible in this w...”
“The will to truth is enshrined in the mind. It is undeniable, inescapable, mutable only if ones humanity itself is rejected, itself muted. Yet the form of this truth, whether it be elaborate, simpl...”
“Until you've been washed ashore you can't know how all encompassing the sea has become.”
