Aspect Quote by Anne Klein

... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make…

— George Sand

“Christian monks and nuns were, in effect, the guardians of culture, as they were virtually the only people who could read and write before…

— Ronald Carter

If all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical.

— Nachman of Breslov

“There is no better recreation for the mind than the study of the ancient classics. Take any one of them into your hand, be…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation - yet…

— Rowan Williams

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

— Ezra Pound

“In these days [1908], when all things and memories of the past are at length become not only subservient to, but submerged by, the…

— Battiscombe G. Gunn

“Scholars make things very easy for themselves. They stick a couple of old potsherds together, search for one or two adjacent cultures, stick a…

— Erich von Däniken

“Scholarly translations of the Tao Te Ching as a manual for rulers use a vocabulary that emphasizes the uniqueness of the Taoist “sage,” his…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

— Lucas Leiva

The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns out that…

— Hannah Arendt

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

— George Steiner