Books Quote by Antonio Tabucchi

“Philosophy always arrives too late to do any such teaching. As the thought of the world, philosophy appears only in the period after actuality…

— hegel

Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved…

— Pierre Hadot

It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life, gains you…

— Diana Wynne Jones

I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a traveller's perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some…

— Trudi Canavan

Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment…

— Herman Melville

It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people…

— Orhan Pamuk

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

— Shane Warren Jones

“That you are a born again Christian does not mean you will automatically succeed except you follow God's principles. Never forget faith without good…

— Patience Johnson

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings…

— Thomas Hardy

I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields…

— John F. Kerry

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what…

— Martin Amis