Karl Popper Quotes

For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.

Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

It's hard to make something feel like it needs to exist.

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

I think it's important for people to always understand what is the context is in what is being said, because that obviously determines what folks are talking about.

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

Words are only as good as the response to those words.

What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?

It all depends what you mean by.

Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.

Anyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It's better than being useless.

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.

Never allow the thought, 'I am of no use where I am.' You are certainly of no use where you're not.

I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called:;: What's the use?

For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.

It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

What we take anything to be profoundly affects how we go about describing it, and how we describe something profoundly affects how we go about explaining, accounting for, or understanding what is what we are, in a sense, defining, by our description.

To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for.

As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.