Lukacs Quotes

#1. In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist; and J. P. Sartre wrote: 'Any anti-communist is a dog.'

Claude Simon

#2. Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.

John Lukacs

#3. You can spend your money and spend your time. At the end of the day, you can look in your wallet and know how much money you have left. That's the difference between money and time.

Richard Miller

#4. Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers face but two alternatives: write English, or write gobbledygook.

John Lukacs

#5. But then history does not only consist of documents.

John Lukacs

#6. I don't understand how some of these young actresses are wearing such provocative, editorial items, when they haven't even established a career yet. It's hard to see past that. I'm not so sure that's smart in the long run.

Allison Williams

#7. There is no reasonable doubt that existentialism will soon become the predominant philosophical current among bourgeois intellectuals. (1949)

Gyorgy Lukacs

#8. from Cicero: "To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to remain a child always.

John Lukacs

#9. We are all national socialists now.

John Lukacs

#10. When civilization is strong and widespread enough, "culture" will appear and take care of itself.

John Lukacs

#11. In our dreams we do not think differently, we remember differently.

John Lukacs

#12. Whenever someone like a plumber or a mechanic tries to explain something technical to me, I listen for about three seconds before it all just becomes white noise, like Charlie Brown's teacher.

John Niven

#13. I remembered watching Slim Goodbody on TV, an odd white guy with a small Afro who wore a full-body leotard with the inside of the human body painted on it, which made him look as if he'd been flayed alive. He

Jenny Lawson

#14. Thus the fundamental form-determining intention of the novel is objectivised as the psychology of the novel's heroes: they are seekers.

Gyorgy Lukacs

#15. Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.

Edward Hoagland

#16. Science is the kind of sacred cow which theology was five hundred years ago ...

John Lukacs

#17. Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

John Lukacs

#18. Kafka was a realist

Gyorgy Lukacs

#19. Philosophy is transcendental homelessness; it is the urge to be at home everywhere

Gyorgy Lukacs

#20. To American ears, the Filipino pronunciation of the word "evacuate" sounded more like "bokweet." They soon further Americanized it to "buckwheat," which would become guerilla slang meaning to place as much distance between oneself and the Japanese as possible.

John D. Lukacs

#21. All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.

John Lukacs

#22. We all love our brothers, in spite of the fact that none of us has a clue what's really in their hearts.

Aaron Starmer

#23. It's four A.M.! Who goes to bed this early!?

Jeff Hirsch