Books Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“literature is but the shadow of good talk”

— simon blackburn

“To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the…

— Richard Bausch

“The only reward to be expected from the cultivation of literature is contempt if one fails and and hatred if one succeeds.”

— Voltaire

“The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of those few great voices of Time.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.”

— Thomas Mann

“Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other”

— Lance Conrad

“What’s missing from the literature of our species are the stories of the peasants. The filthy illiterate. Those with no firm address, no surname.…

— Gregory Maguire

“I have been in several provinces of that kingdom. In some, one half of the people are fools and madmen; in some, they are…

— Voltaire

“for in proportion as the enemy despair of conquest, they will be trying the arts of seduction and the force of fear by all…

— Thomas Paine

“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

“Prejudice conquered is world conquered.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Words are the mirrors of our discontents merely; they contain all the huge unhatched eggs of the world's sorrows.”

— Lawrence Durrell