Nordau's Quotes

#1. I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

Oscar Wilde

#2. The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.

Agnes Repplier

#3. The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

Max Nordau

#4. Therefore everything that changes brings suffering.

Anonymous

#5. [H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick.

Max Nordau

#6. It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

Max Nordau

#7. Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles ... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law ... or, in a word justice.

Max Nordau

#8. By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a dozen quire of newspapers daily, to be constantly called to the telephone ... and to live half their time in a railway carriage or in a flying machine.

Max Nordau

#9. Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception.

David Schwimmer

#10. The independence of art from worldview and worldview concerns is a myth. Every work of art is produced within a framework of worldview assumptions.

Douglas Wilson

#11. There will be sadness," Alia intoned. "I remind you that all things are but beginning, forever beginning. Worlds wait to be conquered. Some within the sound of my voice will attain exalted destinies. You will sneer at the past, forgetting what I tell you now: within all differences there is unity.

Frank Herbert

#12. Not even the tallest mountain of raccoon droppings could ever get in the way of my love for you.'
'That might be the most romantic thing you've ever said to me.'
'It's Shakespeare. One of the sonnets.

Gina Damico

#13. The first condition a community should set, if it aspires to be a nation, is to own the land whereon it lives, and supply its own needs.

Max Nordau

#14. Gymnastics is not only a good thing to live by, but it is important to understand how it does help you in life.

Shawn Johnson

#15. Let me tell you the following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading upward and upward: Herzl; the Zionist Congress; the English Uganda proposition; the future world war; the peace conference where with the help of England a free and Jewish Palestine will be created.

Max Nordau

#16. I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian.

Camille Paglia

#17. Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists

Max Nordau

#18. the lack of money is the ruler of purpose where mediocrity is the king of the mind

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#19. Gratitude is a two fold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.

Henry Van Dyke

#20. Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.

Thucydides

#21. If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

Max Nordau

#22. She liked to think of drowning, of sinking down into cool green water, and feeling herself slowly pressed into nothingness ...

J.K. Rowling

#23. True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.

Monica Crowley