“The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.” IfsNeedsUniverseLiteratureViewsImpossibleCreatorPoint Of ViewInternals Author:Manuel Puig
“With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.” UniverseLiteratureViewsEternitySightHorizonComprehensive Book:The Uncalled (EasyRead Large Edition) Source: The Uncalled (EasyRead Large Edition)
“Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways human beings understand the universe - through literature, theology, aesthetics, art or music.” WorldWayHumansArtUniverseLiteratureCausesNaturalHuman BeingsKnowingAtheismPositive AtheismTheologyNatural WorldAesthetics Author:Eugenie Scott
“Science is not just there for technology. It's part of what addressing who you are in the universe and understanding your place in the cosmos. Good art, good literature, good music - all of that is for that and science is a part of it.” ArtUniverseLiteratureUnderstandingTechnologyWho You AreCosmosGood ArtGood Literature Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
“Writers and scholars have emerged in recent times (some familiar, some new) to continue to challenge the notion of a literature that encompasses the world - and reaffirms our existence in it. It is a multicultural vision that embraces and includes our shrinking universe; it is a multicultural vision that the white man fears and a vision that the rest of us can celebrate.” MenWorldUniverseLiteratureChallengesWhiteExistenceVisionEmbraceNotionFamiliarCelebrateScholarWhite ManMulticulturalShrinking Author:Jessica Hagedorn
“Doesn't the theory of relativity concern literature too? In our world there is no longer any room for the privileged observer, as there is none for the observer of the universe - we are all within.” WorldUniverseLiteratureRoomsTheoryConcernOur WorldPrivilegedObserversRelativityTheories Of Relativity Author:Nina Berberova
“All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number. This truth (the only one) is for the strong alone. Weak-nerved minds insist on a finite universe, a last number; they need, in Nietzsche's words, "the crutches of certainty". The weak-nerved lack the strength to include themselves in the dialectic syllogism.” InspirationalNeedsMindArtTodayLastsUniverseLiteratureStrongProcessNumbersTomorrowTruth IsWeakEssenceErrorsFinalsCertaintyFiniteCrutchesDialectics Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing it. You can't change it, you just become passive in front of it. Even if we live in a godless universe, there are paths set, there are trajectories, like bumper cars just pulling those trajectories, colliding.” IfsUniverseLiteratureDestinyPathMiddleCarFrontsBrownPassivePullingOur DestinyChanging Your LifeYour DestinyCan't ChangeTrajectoryBumper Author:Tommy McCarthy
“Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.” FirstsBelieveHumansPhilosophyCareUniverseLiteratureHealingIntellectualHealth CareMake SenseCosmologyFaith Healing Author:Christopher Hitchens