Contexts Quotes

53 quotes by 50 authors

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events… — Aldous Huxley
Awareness cannot be taught, and when it is present it has no context. All contexts are created by thought and are therefore corruptible by thought.… — Toni Packer
Drawing instruction is a training towards perception, exact observation and exact presentation not of the outward appearances of an object, but of its constructive elements,… — Wassily Kandinsky
The Aga Khan Awards for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and… — Aga Khan IV
I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not. — Sandra Cisneros
I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts. — Jonathan Lethem
..I sought a world philosophy-or an integral philosophy-that would believably weave together the many pluralistic contexts of science, morals, aesthetics, Eastern as well as Western… — Ken Wilber
Sampling is a new way of doing something thatâ€™s been with us for a long time [â€¦] The mix breaks free from the old associations.… — DJ Spooky
The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams. — Paul Shepard
Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best. — Peter Thiel
The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo,… — Georg Cantor
Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum. — Rowan Williams
I've done many different movies in many different contexts. — Antonio Banderas
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the… — Leslie Fiedler
What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to… — David Baltimore
It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question. — Warren Christopher
Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see this phenomenon only… — Anthony Giddens
To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate. — Susan Stewart
Context overrides. In different contexts, cells do different things. — Mina Bissell
This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain… — George F. R. Ellis

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