"For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived."

-- Ingeborg Bachmann

#Needs Quotes #World Quotes #Vantage Point Quotes

“'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus. The universe consists only of atoms and the void; all else is opinion and illusion. If the soul exists, it also consists of atoms.”

Source : Edward Robert Harrison (1986). “Masks of the universe”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
“The conqueror and king in each of us is the . . . Knower of truth. . . . Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.”
“It doesnâ€™t much matter what line of argument you take as a woman. If you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. Itâ€™s not what you say that prompts itâ€”itâ€™s the fact that you are saying it.”
“Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.”
“The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur.”
“You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally fool yourself into forgetting you started with one solitary season out of your life.”
“The supreme application of human attention is to be a vessel to carry awe.”
“No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.”

Source : "Benazir, the steely and vulnerable" by Lyse Doucet, news.bbc.co.uk. December 29, 2007.

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