Books Quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Go on philosophers--teach, enlighten, kindle, think aloud, speak up, run joyfully toward broad daylight, fraternize in the public squares, announce the glad tidings, lavish…

— Victor Hugo

In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind,…

— William Wordsworth

“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made…

— Friedrich von Schiller

“Proceed, philosophers, teach, enlighten, enkindle, think aloud, speak aloud, run joyously towards the bright daylight, fraternise in the public squares, announce the glad tidings,…

— Victor Hugo

“The experience of mankind on the earth is always changing as man develops and has to deal with new combinations of elements; and the…

— Edmund Wilson

“It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or…

— Christopher Hitchens

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“When we recall the great influence which Spenser's poetry has exerted on English poets who have lived and written since his day, we can…

— Owen Barfield

“At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of the…

— Wilkie Collins

“The poet discovers that what men value as substances have a higher value as symbols; that Nature is the immense shadow of man. A…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Sensibility, imagination, reason, each is subservient to the other. Every one of these faculties would be nothing but a disease, but weakness, instead of…

— Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël

“The truth was that nature had endowed them with a larger share of brains than was common in their circle, and had added that…

— George Gissing