Quotes by Irrelevance Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance. Alan Hirsch irrelevance church reflection Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to organize and exploit distractions, to make of them, because of their economic importance, the core and vital center of human life, to idealize them as the highest manifestations of mental activity. Ours is an age of systematized irrelevances, and the imbecile within us has become one of the Titans, upon whose shoulders rests the weight of the social and economic system Aldous Huxley irrelevance origin-of-life men An irrelevance, and your life's altered. Aldous Huxley altered irrelevance To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance. Aldous Huxley irrelevance psychology term There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are not yet born. What they have to say to their own generation is said so at cross-purposes and with such apparent irrelevance that it is not understood. They are, as it were, giants who tower above their own age to cast their shadows across the next. Caroline Gordon irrelevance shadow age Third parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies.) Charles Krauthammer irrelevance party america A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature. Charles Lamb irrelevance family poor What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance. Christopher Hitchens irrelevance hurt country I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life. Clive Barker irrelevance spectacular gay And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long as things were good, and in that moment when they could have been good again, was about the irrelevance of words. You feel what you feel, you act as you act, who in the history of the world has ever been convinced by a well-reasoned argument? Curtis Sittenfeld irrelevance differences long If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said nothing about God, say nothing about right or wrong, good or bad. To admit this would force philosophers to confront the possibility that the physical sciences offer a grossly inadequate view of reality. And since philosophers very much wish to think of themselves as scientists, this would offer them an unattractive choice between changing their allegiances or accepting their irrelevance. David Berlinski irrelevance reality thinking The question of relevance comes before that of truth, because to ask whether a statement is true or false presupposes that it is relevant (so that to try to assert the truth or falsity of an irrelevant statement is a form of confusion). David Bohm irrelevance truth science We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death. Desmond Tutu irrelevance government dog I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect it. Edmund White irrelevance shadow dream Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. Edgar Allan Poe irrelevance truth philosophy The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful--and possibly the only--help that can be given. Elizabeth Bowen irrelevance faults criticism His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else. Elizabeth Kenny irrelevance remarkable community The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television. Eric Burns irrelevance technology home If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less. Eric Shinseki irrelevance change inspirational If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more. Eric Shinseki irrelevance dislike ifs 123»