Crusoe Quotes
20 quotes by 20 authors
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I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you…
— Robin Hobb
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Only through the medium of the public physical world can the mind of one person make a difference to the mind of another. The mind…
— Gilbert Ryle
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The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his hand in skilled…
— Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse
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Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could…
— Wladyslaw Szpilman
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There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page…
— Henning Mankell
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Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.
— Walter Lippmann
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It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
— Samuel Johnson
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I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry…
— Daniel Radcliffe
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I still feel like a castaway, th elast of a once numerous species. It was as though Robinson Crusoe discovered the telltale footprint on the…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic,…
— Carlos Fuentes
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And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal advantage. It is…
— Sophie Scholl
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The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the books in the…
— Dorothy Allison
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look…
— James Joyce
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What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had…
— John Banville
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No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death.
— Richard Matheson
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The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of…
— Paul Theroux
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We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.
— Li Keqiang
Who Wrote These Crusoe Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 20 Crusoe Quotes as follows: