Books Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power,…

— Christian D. Larson

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then…

— Thomas Love Peacock

In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Literature, sharing a wonderful story, is what brings the world together.”

— Elizabeth Spann Craig

“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.”

— Henry James

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety of human…

— Ellen Ullman

As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of…

— Joseph Brodsky

In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying…

— Simone Weil

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

— Mick Farren

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished…

— Terry Eagleton

But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was…

— Kwame Nkrumah

“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