Quotes About Metanarratives

#1. If worldviews or metanarratives can be compared to lenses, which of them brings things into the sharpest focus? This is not an irrational retreat from reason. Rather, it is about grasping a deeper order of things which is more easily accessed by the imagination than by reason.

Alister E. McGrath

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

Jean-Francois Lyotard

#4. A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.

Chinua Achebe

#5. You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying.
-An-mei

Amy Tan

#6. People shock me when they say they never read. When I was young, if people didn't read they would never admit it. Now, its quite acceptable to be anti-intellectual.

Joan Vass

#7. Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.

Carmen Agra Deedy

#8. When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will

Swami Vivekananda

#9. Traditions are not killed by facts.

George Orwell

#10. Find myself a rock and roll band, that needs a helping hand.

Rod Stewart

#11. You ever think Charlie, that our group is the same as any other group like a football team? And the only real difference between us is what we wear and why we wear it?

Stephen Chbosky

#12. Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.

Billy Joel

#13. It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.

James P. Hoffa