C Libataire Translation Quotes & Sayings

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. — Salman Rushdie

We don't even know what living means now, what it is, and what it is called? Leave us alone without books and we shall be lost and in confusion at once. We shall not know what to join on to, what to cling to, what to love and what to hate, what to respect and what to despise.
We are oppressed at being men - men with a real individual body and blood, we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalised man. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'm on the verge of taking a stand. — Tom Hollander

The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical". — Herbert Butterfield

I have to say in premise 'Winter Journal' is really not a memoir. And I don't even think of it as an autobiography. I think of it as a literary composition - similar to music - composed of autobiographical fragments. I'm really not telling the story of my life in a coherent narrative form. — Paul Auster

We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures this process has been the normal relation between images and words. — Asger Jorn

In the heart of man, there is a constant conflict between the flesh and the spirit. — T. B. Joshua

Being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience — Malcolm Gladwell

It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him. — Napoleon Hill