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Lion Feuchtwanger QUOTES

Lion Feuchtwanger QUOTES

1 " Talented person is talented everywhere. "

― Lion Feuchtwanger

2 " Whoever is free from prejudice should be ready to face misunderstanding. "

― Lion Feuchtwanger

3 " You may be right, Count Falkenstein. Perhaps it does offend against our obvious interests, against of the King and our own, if we display such boundless sympathy for (Benjamin) Franklin and do our best to help him and his rebels. Nonetheless, there is perhaps a deeper wisdom in our attitude than if we were to cover him with abuse and to proceed to attack him from all sides. Since we cannot hold up the progressive spirit of the times, we are assisting it in its advance. We are sawing at the branch on which we are sitting because we know that it is destined to fall "

― Lion Feuchtwanger , Foxes in a Vineyard

4 " It is easy to possess a conscience, Monsieur, when one only needs to talk or write about it. But the man, who has to act is constantly faced with the necessity, if he wishes to deal justly with one person, of being unjust to somebody else. "

― Lion Feuchtwanger , Foxes in a Vineyard

5 " 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 , The Jew of Rome (Josephus, #2)

6 " 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 , Josephus (Josephus, #1)

7 " 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 , The False Nero

8 " Vor ihm erhob sich die Feldherrnhalle, eine Nachbildung der Florentiner Loggia dei Lanzi, errichtet den beiden größten bayrischen Feldherrn, Tilly und Wrede, von denen der eine kein Bayer und der andere kein Feldherr war. "

― Lion Feuchtwanger , Success: Three Years in the Life of a Province

9 " The years that had passed had displayed vividly before our eyes the fickleness of human attitudes. "

― Lion Feuchtwanger , The Devil in France: My Encounter with Him in the Summer of 1940

10 " Die Mode jener Jahre war umständlich und töricht. Die Männer knöpften sich steifleinerne Krägen um die Hälse, enge, überflüssige, unschöne Kleidungsstücke, und umwanden sie mühsam zu schlingenden, zwecklosen Binden, sogenannten Krawatten. "

― Lion Feuchtwanger , Success: Three Years in the Life of a Province

11 " Glauben Sie ernstlich'[...]'daß wir dieses Volk nicht wieder werden zu Menschen machen können? "

― Lion Feuchtwanger

12 " Had I not been thinking always of the ludicrous aspects of my own plight, or of the plight of others, I could not have survived that depressing, degrading experience without spiritual harm. "

― Lion Feuchtwanger , The Devil in France: My Encounter with Him in the Summer of 1940

13 " It was not living, it was vegetation. We longed for death. "

― Lion Feuchtwanger , The Devil in France: My Encounter with Him in the Summer of 1940

14 " I am always thinking of that remark of Theodor Lessing, which I quoted earlier in this book, that history is “the art of giving meaning to the meaningless. "

― Lion Feuchtwanger , The Devil in France: My Encounter with Him in the Summer of 1940

15 " my delight in philology, my insistence on having language clear-cut and exact, impels me, when someone says it is cold and someone else that it is warm, to look at the thermometer and say: “Gentlemen, it is 69 degrees Fahrenheit in this room. "

― Lion Feuchtwanger , The Devil in France: My Encounter with Him in the Summer of 1940

16 " But one should not trust first impulses. Instinct is not always a safe counsellor by any means. "

― Lion Feuchtwanger , The Devil in France: My Encounter with Him in the Summer of 1940

17 " However small we made ourselves, we took space and air from our neighbours. We were a torment to one another. "

― Lion Feuchtwanger , The Devil in France: My Encounter with Him in the Summer of 1940

18 " There were of course exceptions, but on the whole the “intellectuals” among us withstood the hardships of the journey resignedly and patiently. They proved to be tougher, quieter, more uncomplaining than many men from other walks of life who were physically stronger and physically better trained. "

― Lion Feuchtwanger , The Devil in France: My Encounter with Him in the Summer of 1940

19 " Speranța este un sfetnic prost. "

― Lion Feuchtwanger , Vulpile în vie I

20 " It has always been a blessed experience with me after an illness to feel that I was recovering. "

― Lion Feuchtwanger , The Devil in France: My Encounter with Him in the Summer of 1940