Books Quote by Martin Heidegger

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

— Martin Heidegger

For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and art, as…

— Os Guinness

The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

— P. T. Barnum

Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love,…

— Caroline Leavitt

It was taken for granted that we had to make something of ourselves. Not much was said about it; it was just in the…

— Thurgood Marshall

Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us.

— Danny Glover

Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. ... And because it is often by describing the thing lost - a…

— Bill Buford

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

— Mark Twain

Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

— T. S. Eliot

Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.

— Anonymous