#context

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#beautiful #complete #context #faith #good

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#clauses #coherent #context #discourse #each

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#contexts #discourse #fruitful #normal #requires

In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That's my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#ambassador #christian #context #democracy #establishing

We don't know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. It's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets. ↗

— Joel Kinnaman

#grasp #here #human #human mind #impossible

Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#context #generalization #generalize #keep #repeating

People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#come #context #entire #human #human voice

Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#both #common #context #cultural #dante

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#context #cultures #died #dying #extended

Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#context #create #death #destroy #disappear