Feuchtwanger Lion Quotes & Sayings

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

Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order. — Julia Cameron

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

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property. — Ayn Rand

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

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

Can you remember, Acte ... how much easier our belief in Nero made life for us in the old days? And can you remember the paralysis, the numbness that seized the whole world when Nero died? Didn't you feel as if the world had grown bare and colorless all of a sudden? Those people on the Palatine have tried to steal our Nero from us, from you and me. Isn't splendid to think that we can show them they haven't succeeded? They have smashed his statues into splinters, erased his name from all the inscriptions, they even replaced his head on that huge statue in Rome with the peasant head of old Vespasian. Isn't it fine to teach them that all that hasn't been of the slightest use? Granted that they have been successful for a few years. For a few years they have actually managed to banish all imagination from the world, all enthusiasm, extravagance, everything that makes life worth living. But now, with our Nero, all these things are back again. — Lion Feuchtwanger

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

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past. — Lion Feuchtwanger

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

In the Lonely Hour is about a guy that I fell in love with last year, and he didn't love me back. I think I'm over it now, but I was in a very dark place. I kept feeling lonely in the fact that I hadn't felt love before. — Sam Smith

Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild. — Dennis Rodman

The author sees Joseph of Genesis as a type of Christ's Pentecostal power. He who was thought dead has been raised in power, and the power is evident in the chariot he sends for his own. — Watchman Nee

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

Talented person is talented everywhere. — Lion Feuchtwanger

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

My raps are a decision, rabble rousing, spiritual, like gospel music. I don't want to dance. We have so many things to deal with, we need to talk straight up and down. — Tupac Shakur

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity. — Lion Feuchtwanger

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

It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker. — Lion Feuchtwanger

I moved from Cleveland to L.A. with a girlfriend, we broke up, and I lived out of my car for a year and a half, on the road with nothing on my mind but getting my act good enough to be on 'The Tonight Show.' — Drew Carey

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

My parents were exactly like millions of other Americans who had a fire in their belly to build something of their own, and in so doing they exemplified the dignity of work, the opportunity available in this great nation to those willing to work, and they left the world a bit better than it was when they first showed up. — Bob Beauprez

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

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

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

Satin skin, silk hair, velvet eyes, sawdust heart - all complete. — Jean Rhys

Life should be lived more from the heart and less from the head. — John Paul Warren

You gotta live it to feel it,
you didn't you wouldn't
get it. — Eminem

You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything. It's the tough ones like 'Breaking the Waves' and 'Nil By Mouth' that stay with you, that you never forget. I'd like to leave a few of those behind if possible. — Olivia Colman

Whoever is free from prejudice should be ready to face misunderstanding. — Lion Feuchtwanger