Literature

🇺🇸Ernest Hemingway

Literature

1899–1961

"In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken."

🇺🇸Mark Twain

Literature

1835–1910

"There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practised in the tricks and delusions of oratory."

🇬🇧Virginia Woolf

Literature

Bloomsbury Group

1882–1941

"And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves."

🇫🇷Oscar Wilde

Literature

Aestheticism

1854–1900

"[On Bernard Shaw] An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him."

🇦🇺William Shakespeare

Literature

English Renaissance

1948–2010

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

🇺🇸Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature

Western philosophy

1803–1882

"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."

Socrates

Literature

-469–-398

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Literature

Age of Enlightenment

1749–1832

"Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment."

🇬🇧Francis Bacon

Literature

empiricism

1909–1992

"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well."

Plato

Philosophy

Platonism

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."

🇫🇷Albert Camus

Literature

continental philosophy

1913–1960

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

Leo Tolstoy

Literature

literary realism

1828–1910

"There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power."

🇺🇸Henry David Thoreau

Literature

Western philosophy

1817–1862

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.."

🇦🇹Franz Kafka

Literature

Realism

1894–1924

"From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you."

🇫🇷Gustave Flaubert

Literature

Realism

1821–1880

"The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him. (18 March 1857)"

Rainer Maria Rilke

Literature

Symbolism

1875–1926

"Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further."

🇬🇧Charles Dickens

Literature

literary realism

1719–1793

"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

🇩🇪Friedrich Schiller

Literature

Sturm und Drang

1895–1990

"What one refuses in a minuteNo eternity will return."

🇨🇳Sun Tzu

Literature

-544–-496

"In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power."

🇮🇹Dante Alighieri

Literature

1265–1321

"Ella è quanto de ben pò far natura;per essemplo di lei bieltà si prova."

🇫🇷Marcel Proust

Literature

1871–1922

"On ne reçoit pas la sagesse, il faut la découvrir soi-même après un trajet que personne ne peut faire pour nous, ne peut nous épargner."

🏛️Homer

Literature

b. 1943

"I am foremost of all the Trojan warriors to stave the day of bondage from off them; as for you, vultures shall devour you here."

🇺🇸Edgar Allan Poe

Literature

Romanticism

1872–1961

"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."

Laozi

Literature

Confucianism

-579–-500

"A "plain English" online interpolation of Chapters 1–37 by the Universal Dialectic Institute: Tao: The Way of Nature"

🇺🇸Walt Whitman

Literature

Transcendentalism

1819–1892

"Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!"

🇮🇷Zoroaster

Literature

-627–-550

"For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home."

🇧🇷Victor Hugo

Literature

French Romanticism

1802–1885

"What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul"

Miguel de Cervantes

Literature

Mannerism

1547–1616

"A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause."

🇺🇸James Joyce

Literature

1870–1931

"His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before."

🇺🇸Emily Dickinson

Literature

1830–1886

"Dickinson on Poets.org Biography, related essays, and reading guides, from the Academy of American Poets"

Ovid

Literature

-42–17

"Siquis amat quod amare iuvat, feliciter ardensGaudeat, et vento naviget ille suo.At siquis male fert indignae regna puellae,Ne pereat, nostrae sentiat artis opem."

🇬🇧John Milton

Literature

1608–1674

"The great Emathian conqueror bid spareThe house of Pindarus, when temple and towerWent to the ground."

Virgil

Literature

1896–1989

"Original texts of Virgil's works at The Latin Library"

Geoffrey Chaucer

Literature

1343–1400

"         Of all the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures whyte and rede, Swiche that men callen daysies in our toun."

🇮🇪George Bernard Shaw

Literature

1856–1950

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

Anton Chekhov

Literature

Modernism

1860–1904

"The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism!"

🇦🇷Jorge Luis Borges

Literature

1899–1986

"Thus fought the heroes, tranquil their admirable hearts, violent their swords, resigned to kill and to die."

🇺🇸Kahlil Gibran

Literature

Symbolism

1922–2008

"Darkness may hide the treesand the flowers from the eyesbut it cannot hidelove from the soul."

🇺🇸Cormac McCarthy

Literature

1933–2023

"People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there."

Rabindranath Tagore

Music

Bengali Renaissance

1861–1941

"God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land."