Lyotard Metanarratives Quotes

#1. She discovered that a great deal of the suffering in this world is due not so much to original sin, but to a kind of original stupidity, an unimaginative, stubborn stupidity.

George Sand

#2. Lyotard has described the postmodern condition succinctly as "incredulity towards metanarratives":' an attitude commendable in itself, no doubt, but also one that can easily be translated into a dogmatic metanarrative of its own. In

David Bentley Hart

#3. We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.

Philip Sidney

#4. Poppy, this is London society, where the truth can get you into trouble. If you tell one truth, you'll have to tell another truth, and another, to keep covering up.

Lisa Kleypas

#5. Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

#6. People can fly. Some people fly higher than others, that's all.

Michael Jordan

#7. The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, "To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls." Another one said, "To describe blow-jobs artistically.

Kurt Vonnegut