Best 5099 quotes in «literature quotes» category

The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

The month of January, we were number one. Now, this is something we're proud of, because we recognize we're up against a formidable operation there at CNN.

The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal.

The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

The more we get away from believing and studying literature, the worst we become, the more we lose our soul.

The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium.

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

The [Nobel] prize is for literature.[Bob] Dylan is a songwriter. Here is where the argument starts to get interesting, because here is where it is no longer a question of either cultural orthodoxy or personal taste.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

The offender never pardons.

Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical literature. But theology, the study of gods, the study of what gods do, presupposes that gods exist. The only kind of theology that I take account of are those theological arguments that actually argue for the existence of God.

The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.

Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not.

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.