The proverbs, of which his talk was full, were for the most part not the coarse and indecent saws soldiers employ, but those folk sayings which taken without a
context seem so insignificant, but when used appositely suddenly acquire a significance of profound wisdom.
Idealism does not say that nothing can be known beyond the present thought, but it maintains that the
context of vague belief, which we spoke of in connection with the thought of St.
Latin from the books of the Laws of England, which taken along with the
context, means, that of all whales captured by anybody on the coast of that land, the King, as Honorary Grand Harpooneer, must have the head, and the Queen be respectfully presented with the tail.
Sweet, with boundless contempt for my stupidity, would reply that it not only meant but obviously was the word Result, as no other Word containing that sound, and capable of making sense with the
context, existed in any language spoken on earth.
And there is nothing in the
context to show that Hesiod's Amphidamas is to be identified with that Amphidamas whom Plutarch alone connects with the Lelantine War: the name may have been borne by an earlier Chalcidian, an ancestor, perhaps, of the person to whom Plutarch refers.
One judged the tense by the
context. We talked only concrete things because we thought only concrete things.
So it was, more by tone and emphasis and
context of situation than by anything else, that Jerry came hazily to identify himself with names such as: Dog, Mister Dog, Adventurer, Strong Useful One, Sing Song Silly, Noname, and Quivering Love-Heart.
And taken with the
context, this is full of meaning.
The
context convinces me, however, that you have sinned rather through ignorance and tactlessness than through malice, so I am content to pass the matter by.
They twisted his words and phrases away from the
context, and turned his subdued and controlled remarks into a howling anarchistic speech.
'Bless me, bless me, Sept,' returned the old lady, 'you don't see the
context! Give it back to me, my dear.'
We should try to understand this perfectly before proceeding; for it is precisely views of this sort which, after having been cut out of the original
context, are repeated far and wide as internal evidence proving the general unsoundness of Nietzsche's philosophy.