The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Rule One: Whenever a spectator seeks out a really good vantage point and settles down on shooting stick or canvas chair, the… — Peter Dobereiner Copy Share Image
“And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We are all descended from cavemen who broke the skulls of their enemies with rocks for fun or profit. But that hardly… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“From her vantage point, looking up at [Ian] through the water-spotted and slightly blurry lenses of her glasses, he was quite literally… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
“Audrey kept moving with practiced quickness, stepping over roots protruding over the trail and pushing ferns and branches out of her way.… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“On into the void he flies, unafraid. There is nothing in mere absence that can cow him. Or loneliness. Or the lack… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
“Hubble then made an even more amazing discovery. By measuring the red shift of the stars’ spectra (which is the light wave… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise -… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Heaven entails hell, and ‘going to heaven’ is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“If you can see a thing whole," he said, "it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives...But close up, a world's all… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The higher we climb, the more comprehensive the view. Each new vantage point yields a better understanding of the interconnection of things.… — Julian Barbour Copy Share Image
“Joan had told me a story once about some elephants in captivity somewhere, how as babies they were put into ankle cuffs… — Wendy Blackburn Copy Share Image
“It's the soul's eye which stares at your beauty and knows you well. And from it's vantage point you're as visible as… — Leandra J. Kalsy Copy Share Image
I ended up breaking a bone in my foot early in my rookie season, and honestly, it was kind of a blessing.… — C. J. McCollum Copy Share Image
Part of an actor's job is to actually adopt the world-view of the character she is playing and to tell the story… — Jack Lemmon Copy Share Image
“To think of the Midwest as a whole as anything other than beautiful is to ignore the extraordinary power of the land.… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism's specifically academic appeal comes from its being another in the sequence of all-purpose "unmasking" strategies that offer a way to criticize… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“Viktor Frankl used the metaphor of geometric dimensions to illustrate challenges in perception and understanding. Just as a three-dimensional cylinder projected onto… — Laura Patryas Copy Share Image
For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“I’m not convinced that stories from real life have beginnings and ends, as a matter of fact. Approach them from any vantage… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
God's road for us may not be one that appears successful from our human vantage point, yet serves as part of his… — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
“He remembered the night in Arlington when the news came: secession. He remembered a paneled wall and firelight. When we heard the… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
“Blue raised an eyebrow. "What is it you're thinking she has up here?" "I don't know." "Ferrets?" "Don't be ridiculous." "Wizards?" Calla… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
