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Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger

Philosopher

“From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has only emerged when human beings had a home and were rooted in a tradition. Today's literature is, for instance, largely destructive.”

Home Literature Essentials

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Philip Roth

Novelist

“Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.”

Mind Literature Silence

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Homer

Poet

“Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.”

Literature Communication

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MI

Poet, Philosopher

“The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.”

Kind Prayer

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John Steinbeck

Novelist, Journalist

“In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.”

Trying Literature Loneliness

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E. M. Forster

Novelist, Essayist

“Love is always being given where it is not required.”

Love Love Is

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Edwin Louis Cole

Author, Speaker

“The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.”

Literature Christian Inspirational

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Edwin Louis Cole

Author, Speaker

“The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.”

People Men Literature

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Euripides

Playwright

“Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.”

Fighting Literature Prudent

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Aeschylus

Playwright

“Whoever is new to power is always harsh.”

Literature Power

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Bertolt Brecht

Playwright, Poet

“No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.”

Long Literature

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Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead

Philosopher, Mathematician

“It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.”

Literature Expression Humanity

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