Attraction Quote by Italo Calvino

The satirist isn't just looking at things ironically but militantly - he wants to change them, and intends to have an effect on the…

— Martin Amis

The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he…

— Samuel Johnson

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

— Rebecca West

The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when…

— Anthony Daniels

Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he…

— Samuel Johnson

The more a human being in his worldview approaches the goal, the hegemony of love in a moral universe, the more has he become…

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting…

— James Joseph Sylvester

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of…

— Stanley Kubrick

“The seekers after knowledge should, of course, not seek worldly knowledge and worldly gain but devote themselves to the denunciation of the world, to…

— Franz Rosenthal

What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the…

— Walter Scott