Books Quote by Georg Brandes Download Open image “That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.” — Georg Brandes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Debate Debates Problems Hygiene Life Literature Literature Time Living Shown Our time Problem Time Way Way Debates Writer
People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
“Instead, the timeless, recurring problems that make us human—those are ambitious problems to tackle. Some” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“The way we think and how we focus on problems plays a role in how we live.” — Alan O'Brien Copy Share Image
The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Political debates in the United States can be untethered from facts, but threats to life focus minds on reality. — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time. — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
“it is the very nature of the humanities, and in particular the study of literature, to help remind thoughtful people of the ambiguities and… — Gregory Wolfe Copy Share Image
I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to elicit widespread… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map of Europehas… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I don't think people want to look at problems. They want a continuous narrative, an optimistic narrative. A narrative that says there's a present… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
The historian is looked upon as objective when he measures the past by the popular opinions of his own time, as subjective when he… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
It appears to Nietzsche that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man ... First, Rousseau's man, the Titan who raises… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
