{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Samuel R. Delany","tags":["context","humorous","prophecies"],"id":9377,"author_id":"Samuel+R.+Delany"},{"text":"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 rejected in advance as prejudiced -- since no speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea. Though how in the hell one passes judgement on a man without considering the content of his brain is more than I'll ever understand.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["context","ideas","society"],"id":9680,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, its own game, and there is as much difference betwixt us and ourselves as betwixt us and others.","author":"Michel de Montaigne","tags":["chance","choices","circumstance","context","difference","human","inconsistency","inconstancy","life","personality"],"id":40187,"author_id":"Michel+de+Montaigne"},{"text":"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 fragmented news but news without context, without consequences, without value, and therefore without essential seriousness; that is to say, news as pure entertainment.","author":"Neil Postman","tags":["context","discourse","embarrassing","entertainment","fragment","news","news-of-the-day","presentation","technology","television"],"id":41296,"author_id":"Neil+Postman"},{"text":"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.","author":"Solomon E. Asch","tags":["context","society","understanding"],"id":44471,"author_id":"Solomon+E.+Asch"},{"text":"What's writ is what's read, yet the meaning is gone, since context is what gives each quote its own home.","author":"Will Advise","tags":["context","meaning","missing","reading","writing"],"id":51563,"author_id":"Will+Advise"},{"text":"Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.","author":"Bill Cosby","tags":["unique","satire","context "],"id":53771,"author_id":"Bill+Cosby"},{"text":"Art is the conscious making of numinous phenomena. Many objects are just objects - inert, merely utilitarian. Many events are inconsequential, too banal to add anything to our experience of life. This is unfortunate, as one cannot grow except by having one’s spirit greatly stirred; and the spirit cannot be greatly stirred by spiritless things. Much of our very life is dead. For primitive man, this was not so. He made his own possessions, and shaped and decorated them with the aim of making them not merely useful, but powerful. He tried to infuse his weapons with the nature of the tiger, his cooking pots with the life of growing things; and he succeeded. Appearance, material, history, context, rarity - perhaps rarity most of all - combine to create, magically, the quality of soul. But we modern demiurges are prolific copyists; we give few things souls of their own. Locomotives, with their close resemblance to beasts, may be the great exception; but in nearly all else with which today’s poor humans are filling the world, I see a quelling of the numinous, an ashening of the fire of life. We are making an inert world; we are building a cemetery. And on the tombs, to remind us of life, we lay wreaths of poetry and bouquets of painting. You expressed this very condition, when you said that art beautifies life. No longer integral, the numinous has become optional, a luxury - one of which you, my dear friend, are fond, however unconsciously. You adorn yourself with the same instincts as the primitive who puts a frightening mask of clay and feathers on his head, and you comport yourself in an uncommonly calculated way - as do I. We thus make numinous phenomena of ourselves. No mean trick - to make oneself a rarity, in this overpopulated age.","author":"K.J. Bishop","tags":["appearance","art","artists","ashening","beth-constanzin","cemeteries","context","demiurges","gwynn","history","integral","locomotives","masks","material","numinous-phenomena","objects","painting","poetry","quelling","rarity","soul","spirit","tombs"],"id":72767,"author_id":"K.J.+Bishop"},{"text":"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 world.","author":"Bernard Brodie","tags":["context","history","perception"],"id":82183,"author_id":"Bernard+Brodie"},{"text":"I always loved designing, but the context needs to be right, and have a positive perspective.","author":"Hedi Slimane","tags":["perspective","loved","context "],"id":103563,"author_id":"Hedi+Slimane"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":50,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}