Feuchtwanger Quotes

#1. There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

Lion Feuchtwanger

#2. Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.

Lion Feuchtwanger

#3. If you'd had all the experiences I've had, you'd know that there are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and just let them happen.

James Hamilton

#4. There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.

Sri Chinmoy

#5. And I'm supposed to grab her and kiss her and she's supposed to react. Well, what happened was, Julie was very nervous at that time, given this incredible part which she did beautifully.

Rod Steiger

#6. I came today because I realized that if I can't forgive her and love her as she is, then I can't expect anyone to do the same for me.

Mina V. Esguerra

#7. Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.

Lion Feuchtwanger

#8. Whoever is free from prejudice should be ready to face misunderstanding.

Lion Feuchtwanger

#9. You are mine, Madison. You've always been mine. You just didn't know it and neither did I, but you're mine, sweetheart, all mine and I'm never going to let you go.

R.L. Mathewson

#10. Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

Lion Feuchtwanger

#11. The word and the image mutually excluded each other. Joseph was a literary man to his very marrow; he put faith in the invisible Word; it was the most miraculous thing in all the world; though without form it had more power than anything endowed with form

Lion Feuchtwanger

#12. Careers are defined by four minutes on the ice and lives can change forever, emotionally and financially.

John Zimmerman

#13. An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.

Lion Feuchtwanger

#14. I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.

Lion Feuchtwanger

#15. I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.

Lion Feuchtwanger

#16. Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.

Rachel Johnson

#17. The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice ...

Henry Lindell

#18. I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men, not to lament nor to abhor them. I have done all in my might to understand them.- Spinoza

Lion Feuchtwanger

#19. Here is the truth about self-discovery: it is never without cost.

Angela Flournoy

#20. From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

Lion Feuchtwanger

#21. In itself it is nothing. Nothing but a book: parchment, colouring, ink. Yet the most perishable material is at the same time the most durable substance in the world ...

Lion Feuchtwanger

#22. It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker.

Lion Feuchtwanger

#23. What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

Lion Feuchtwanger

#24. An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.

Lion Feuchtwanger

#25. The "hypocrite" is the critic who disguises his own failings by focusing attention on the failings of others.

Michael Shermer

#26. When you're from a boring town, you have to find things to do. It's funny: I always knew I wanted to make music, so I was always kind of ahead of my peers. I had an MP3 player by the time I was in the fourth grade.

Shamir

#27. Talented person is talented everywhere.

Lion Feuchtwanger

#28. After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

Lion Feuchtwanger

#29. Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.

Lion Feuchtwanger