Literature Quotes - Page 59

Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause.

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

[Science is] the literature of truth.

Going home must be like going to render an account.

One of our problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit. We re interested in the news of the day and the problems of the hour.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

History without politics descends to mere Literature.

I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our brain is worthwhile.

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

No refining of one's taste in matters of art or literature, no sharpening of one's powers of insight in matters of science or psychology, can ever take the place of one's sensitiveness to the life of the earth. This is the beginning and the end of a person's true education.