Vantage Quotes - page 2

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view. (John Henrik Clarke)
I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal. View quote
Michelle Shocked
We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point. View quote
Victoria Moran
Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time. View quote
Nigel Kennedy
Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas --stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety. View quote
Aleister Crowley
I see magic as a vantage point from which one can look down on the rest of consciousness. View quote
Alan Moore
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 vantage point. View quote
Steven Pinker
I tended, even from my early years, to look at the world from a slightly different vantage point. Although I might have had trouble articulating it at the age of 10, I wasn't unduly convinced of the durability of the Anglo-Saxon world as we had come to know it in the postwar period, a world of latter-day materialism advancing around the globe on the wongs of the English language and the American dollar. I had a sneaking suspicion that we were living in a bit of a fool's paradise... View quote
Conrad Black
It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth ... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below. View quote
Francis Bacon
All right. First, find me a cliff" "That, will it give you a vantage to see the area?" "No," said Kaladin. "It will give me something to throw you off of. View quote
Brandon Sanderson
For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see. (Ruth Ozeki)
From our vantage, materialism is not a neutral, value-free, minimalist position from which to pursue inquiry. Rather, it is itself an ideology with an agenda. What's more, it requires an evolutionary creation story to keep it afloat. On scientific grounds, we regard that creation story to be false. What's more, we regard the ideological agenda that has flowed from it to be destructive to rational discourse. Our concerns are therefore entirely parallel to the evolutionists'. Indeed, all the evolutionists' worst fears about what the world would be like if we succeed have, in our view, already been realized through the success of materialism and evolution. Hence, as a strategy for unseating materialism and evolution, the term "Wedge" has come to denote an intellectual and cultural movement that many find congenial. View quote
William A. Dembski
Decadence, instability, disintegration, corruption, reversal of attitude, all that arises through the simple fact of one's going on existing without self-criticism, self-renewal, constant self-adaptation, without letting anything in one die, through the simple fact of gradually settling down in the vantage point one occupies, the good conscience one enjoys. Such is the permanent danger of all spiritual life. It is an inevitable deterioration which can only be overcome-and painfully at that-by a watchful mustering of strength-unless it be effortlessly vanquished by a wonderful gift of grace....Whence the necessity of paradox: or rather the perpetual flavor of paradox that truth has, when it is freshly expressed, for the man who clings to a truth when it is in the process of turning into a lie. View quote
Henri de Lubac