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“A canon is a guarded catalogue of that speech, music and art which houses inside us, which is irrevocably familiar to our homecomings. And…

— George Steiner

“ The philosophical point of view of the average man - if that term may be applied to his naive realism - has a…

— Alejandro Moreno

“If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters…

— Harold Bloom

“Certainly man is a remarkably vain, variable, and elusive subject.10 It is hard to base any constant, uniform judgment upon him.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“They are ordinarily men to whom forms are of paramount importance. Their field of action lies among the external phenomena of life. They possess…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times, and hurl in the face of custom and trade and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“This is man: a writer of books, a putter-down of words, a painter of pictures, a maker of ten thousand philosophies. He grows passionate…

— Thomas Wolfe

“In the case of everything that belongs to the realm of sentiment, religion, politics, morality, the affections, and antipathies, etc. The most eminent men…

— Gustave Le Bon

“The writer in him is only the shadow of the man, though so often we observe men whose art of writing is so great,…

— Stefan Zweig

“Like every writer, he measured other men's virtues by what they had accomplished, yet asked that other men measure him by what he planned…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent…

— Charles Dickens