Literature Quotes

Books change lives. Authors and readers reflect on the power of the written word.

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"Literature is the conversation of the ages."
Catharine Macaulay
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"All the colouring of logic is drawn from words or language."
George Berkeley
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"Literature opens doors to infinite worlds."
Hugo Grotius
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"Literature preserves humanity."
Hugo Grotius
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"Literature reveals the depths of human nature and reason."
Christian Wolff
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"Great literature mirrors the soul of humanity"
Jean Bodin
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"Literature gives voice to the voiceless"
Jean Bodin
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"The written word preserves human civilization."
Hugo Grotius
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"Poetry is the voice of the nation's soul."
Johann Herder
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"The soul of a people lives in their stories and myths."
Johann Herder
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"Poetry speaks where ordinary language falls silent."
Johann Herder
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"The written word preserves the thoughts of those long departed."
Catharine Macaulay
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"The decline of literature indicates the decline of the nation."
Johann Goethe
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"True eloquence speaks not from the mouth, but from the soul."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Literature preserves the wisdom and experience of all ages."
Giovanni Vico
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"The written word is humanity's greatest invention."
Hugo Grotius
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"The voice of a nation echoes through the ages in its literature."
Johann Herder
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"The greatest poetry is often found in the simple expressions of ordinary people."
Johann Herder
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"The written word preserves truth for those who come after."
Catharine Macaulay
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"The pen is mightier than the sword in advancing human progress."
Catharine Macaulay
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"A woman who reads and thinks becomes a woman who acts."
Catharine Macaulay
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"The written word is the immortal servant of truth."
Jean Bodin
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"Literature preserves the wisdom of ancestors for the benefit of descendants."
Jean Bodin
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"Great literature is the conversation of the soul with itself."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Literature preserves the wisdom that raw experience might lose."
Christian Wolff
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"Literature is news that stays news."
Johann Goethe
"Literature preserves the wisdom of ages."
Moses Mendelssohn
"Literature opens windows into other souls."
Moses Mendelssohn
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"Literature preserves the voices of those whom history has attempted to silence."
Catharine Macaulay
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"Poetry is the language of the heart and the voice of truth."
Johann Herder