Magris Quotes

#1. The trouble with life is that we lead it forwards and understand it backwards.

N. Lombardi Jr.

#2. And damn well no 5-0 with his Smokey the Bear looking sidekick, will ever tell me differently.

J.J. McAvoy

#3. Building new connections is a critical part of building a new economy. The American education system, as flawed as it is, is great for the creative class because of the way it mixes up networks.

Danah Boyd

#4. That's something like the sensation of losing someone. You are never in your life so alive, and so aware of being alive, yet so isolated and abandoned, as when a loved one is taken from you. The planet will move right through you like wind through stalks of grass.

Dennis Bock

#5. It's not enough to do good. It must be done well.

St. Vincent

#6. What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something.

Lakhdar Brahimi

#7. History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.

Claudio Magris

#8. Jesus Christ is the Master of the business we are doing. We are not the master

Sunday Adelaja

#9. Years ago at music camp Harry once said to me, "He's not just a musical prodigy, you know. He's a musical genius." It comes back to me now. And I laugh when I kiss my 'musical genius' because really he's just Flynn.

Tabitha Suzuma

#10. The courage to put an end to war, to see the abysmal stupidity of it, is certainly no less than that needed to start one.

Claudio Magris

#11. The great commander knows that in order to win one needs to know the remote and also the immediate reasons for the war, the capacities of the soldiers, which is to say the social and political make-up of the states, determining the variety, the quality and the character of the men.

Claudio Magris

#12. Suleika knows that she is only a passing moment, the crest of a wave or the hem of a cloud, but she is soberly content to be, do an instant, the embodiment of that flow.

Claudio Magris

#13. I will protect your freedom, Malala. Carry on with your dreams.

Malala Yousafzai

#14. If a man without a woman, as it says in a passage in the Talmud dear to the heart of Kafka, is not a man, then it is Amshel who became a man, even though on the point of death, but it is Franz who narrates this odyssey and teaches us how to become Amshel, how to become a man.

Claudio Magris

#15. True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.

Claudio Magris

#16. Great poetry is capable of dealing with erotic passion, but it has to be the very greatest to represent that deeper and more tortuous love
more rooted, more absolute
which we devote to our children, and which it is so hard to talk about.

Claudio Magris

#17. He [Mihaly Babits] hoped that some god might offer a bed to the river of words which rose to his lips, so that it might flow between ordered banks to the sea, there to vanish.

Claudio Magris

#18. There are many hostelries in his report, which is the true account of an expedition.

Claudio Magris

#19. [E]very journey is played out between standstill and flight.

Claudio Magris

#20. I'll be no longer guilty of this sin; this sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh, -

William Shakespeare

#21. Judge not,' it has been said, but being a juryman can be a pleasant occupation when one is not weighing up human actions and years in prison, but the books or the wines of the season.

Claudio Magris

#22. Events of human origin are uncertain, but all is regulated and governed by the incalculable power of God, inspiring us not through drunken fury nor by frantic movement, but through the influences of the stars.

Nostradamus

#23. intellectuals are typically privileged; privilege yields opportunity, and opportunity confers responsibilities. An individual then has choices.

Noam Chomsky

#24. Today, questioning oneself about Europe means asking oneself how one relates to Germany.

Claudio Magris