“Dickens didn't have access to any other epistemologies other than those prevailing in Britain. But a novelist today cannot plausibly claim ignorance of his society's manifold connections with the wider world, the fact that prosperity and security at home, for instance, often depend on extensive violence and exploitation abroad.” WorldFactsHomeTodayViolenceSecurityIgnoranceDependsConnectionsClaimsProsperityAccessInstanceNovelistsBritainExploitationPrevailingDickensEpistemologyManifold Author:Pankaj Mishra
“So for instance it becomes clear why space and time and even the properties of matter itself depend on the observer in consciousness. In fact when you take this point of view it even explains why the laws of the universe themselves are fine tuned for the existence of life.” MatterFactsLawUniverseSpaceViewsExistenceConsciousnessClearFineDependsPropertyPoint Of ViewInstanceTime And SpaceObserversExistence Of LifeProperties Of Matter Author:Robert Lanza
“All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.” WorldHumansMadeMomentsFactsPurposeNaturalDependsJudgmentImportanceHistoricalDataInterpretationNatural WorldHuman SocietyInterpreterHistorical Knowledge Book:Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World Source: Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World
“Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.” PeopleIfsMayIdeasEndsFactsWisdomRealityFacesUsedValuesResultsStruggleAchieveDependsOppositesWorthlessPersonal Relationships Author:Thomas Merton