“Can you remember, Acte...how much easier our belief in Nero made life for us in the old days? And can you remember the paralysis, the numbness that seized the whole world when Nero died? Didn't you feel as if the… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share
There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime. — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past. — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
“Can you remember, Acte...how much easier our belief in Nero made life for us in the old days? And can you remember the paralysis, the numbness that seized the whole world when Nero died? Didn't you feel as if the world had grown bare and colorless all of a sudden? Those people on the Palatine have tried to steal our… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share
Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
“(Er) hat in unbegreiflicher Verblendung übersehen, daß ein Mensch auch ohne selbstständige Ideen und ohne Persönlichkeit in dem Augenblick Wesen und Inhalt annimt, in… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
“In itself it is nothing. Nothing but a book: parchment, colouring, ink. Yet the most perishable material is at the same time the most… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific. — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
“I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men, not to lament nor to abhor them. I have done all in my… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
