Lines from famous people somehow will serve us our channel and funnel in improving ourselves.Here are some collections:
1."It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression."- Alfred North Whitehead
1."It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression."- Alfred North Whitehead
2."Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."- G. K. Chesterton
This book is not to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.- Dorothy Parker
3.Read in order to live. – Gustave Flaubert
4. “A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.”- Thomas Carruthers
5.“A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.” Cicero
6. “Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” –Smith and Jones
7. “You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.”- Hari Dass Baba
8. “The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.”- Norman Doughlas
9. “Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.”- Denis Dedirot
10. “First he wrought, and afterward he taught.”- Geoffrey Chaucer
11. “I can find my biography in every fable that I read.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. “The walls are the publishers of the poor.”- Eduardo Galeano
13. “In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.”- Aldous Huxley
14. “Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.”- Joseph Roux
15. “A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.”- Stendhal
16. “Perish those who said our good things before we did.”- Donutos
17. “Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.”- Alexandre Dumas Fils
18. “A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.”- Maz Eastman
19. “There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.”- Allan Bloom
20. “Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.”- Russell Green
21. “Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.”- Cyril Connolly
22. “Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.”-Georges Simenon
23. “For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.”- Herman Melville
24. “Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.”- John Morley
25. “Literature is the immortality of speech.”- August Wilhelm Von Sshlegel
26. “. . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.”- Thomas Babington Macauly
27. “The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.”- Sarah Ban Breathnach
28. “Change your thoughts, and you change your world”- Norman Vincent Peale
29. “The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.”- Bede Jarrett
30. “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”- Albert Einstein
31. “The wide world is all about you; you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.”J.R.R. Tolkien
32. "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."- William Gibson
33. "I am a sick man . . . I am a wicked man. An unattractive man, I think my liver hurts."Fyodor Dostoyevsky
34. All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.-Frank Herbert
35. It is not that power corrupts but that power is a magnet to the corruptible.- Frank Herbert
36. “Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.” William J. Durant
37. “The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.” Francis Bacon
39. “When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.”Erwin Bourdet
Quotes number 33. This line is somewhat confusing to me at first, but after reading it many times, I was able to appreciate it. I have to re-read every single word and I find it interesting. The line will make you think deeper. Each word is meaningful. For me, it is all about the nature of pain and suffering. It shows the portrayal of humanity. It talks about the character or a description of a man. A life that is full of misery. It is a good introduction because it will give you important ideaa about its character. It was from his novel entitled Notes from Underground.
ReplyDelete# 34 quote: Absolutely yes, all governments experience recurring and still unsolved problems or crisis clearly because wealthy special interest have too much power in our political system while the public has too little. The result is that the power and greed of the few too often win out over the needs of the many. Power bases are very dangerous because they attract people who are truly insane, people who seek power only for the sake of power. -Merynette Taldo
ReplyDelete"Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness" by:Georges Simenon
ReplyDelete_in my own interpretation about this lines - writing is the particular occupation for which you are trained.This is not only for those who has a profession but this is for all human being.even we are in a low position or even we don't have a profession we are free use writing . but the important thing that we should remember - make sure that we use it in a right way not to distract other people.
“Perish those who said our good things before we did.”- Donutos ...
ReplyDeleteFrom this #16 quote, I've understand that it is not always good in saying good things before doing it because through this, some will just take for granted the things they are going to do because they thought that it is good already, they will not try harder to do best because they are contented in the complement of "good". On the other hand, some of this kind of complement is ironic, they say it is good but it doesn't look like one. And instead of being pleased, they will lose their self confidence and much worse if they stop what they were doing because of disappointment. So, for me, I agree with Donutos, “Perish those who said our good things before we did.”
“The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.” Francis Bacon
ReplyDelete..poets are made to express individual feelings just like musics. .upon composing a music we must know our heartfelt to create something new.,with the music and medicine it can cure our needs and emptiness,we must learn how life is important and to dwell with the trend. today, music is the medicine to every humankind because as we all know music is part of our life and real feelings flowed out.
In #24 lines,Truly it says that literature is seductive,dangerous and deceiving of profession because it is the soul and the expression of your thought, but if you wrongly use or the idea itself are not proper it may lead to misunderstanding towards the reader.
ReplyDelete“There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.”- Allan Bloom
ReplyDeleteIn line #19,states that a real teacher must be flexible enough to practice not merely on his/her profession,but a real teacher must also linked or broaden his/her knowledge in other fields.As the saying says that,"What you can see is not the truth,rather what you cannot see is the truth"
11. “I can find my biography in every fable that I read.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
ReplyDeleteFor me this quote pro notes that sometimes we find ourselves in every fable that we read by reflecting to the lessons that fables brought to us.
7. “You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.”
ReplyDeleteThis quotation is somewhat a reflection in the real life situation, this is something to do of today's happenings.You cannot teach a person what to do or to learned with the fact that this person is not in nature as you do or have known what you have already known.
10. “First he wrought, and afterward he taught.”- Geoffrey Chaucer
ReplyDelete- this means that a man have encounter many experiences. some of it were good ones and bad. Despite of this he learned something from that and he can share or teach it so that it could guide others in facing life and dealing with their problems.
7. “The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.”- Sarah Ban Breathnach
ReplyDeleteThis line tells that our world need much of our thoughts and attention. It need people who dream for its progress. But what the world really need is those people who have the capacity to build dreams and making it happen.
28. “Change your thoughts, and you change your world”- Norman Vincent Peale
ReplyDelete-- The way we think about things will really change our world for the better. In thinking, there are 2 kinds of person. The first one is the positive thinker and the other one is the negative thinker. If you're a positive thinker about things you will have a better world and it helps you to change your world for the better. Bu always remember, changing thoughts can be one of the toughest things you may ever do in your life.
4.“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.”- Thomas Carruthers
ReplyDeleteSo in this quotation, it means that it is the real purpose of all the teachers to manage their students, to teach and to get their attention during class discussion or even outside the class. A teacher is the one who doesn't mind his/her profession just to teach his/her students in any kind of way. Some of them teaches their students through direct experiences; they let them act, execute and others. And after they've learn, they don't need already their teacher because they already know what to do. And that make the teachers progressively unnecessary, they progress because they have done their job - to let students learn - and they become unnecessary but in a positive manner.
32. "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."- William Gibson
ReplyDelete-->Often times a dead channel only shows one color and it can either be blue or black or white. It depends on what the settings of your television is or how you set your television. Just like life, we are the ones who choose if we want to see our world as just white (cloudy/doubts,fears) or black (night,dark/pain,anguish) or blue (nice weather/happiness,positive outlook in life). It basically depends on how we set our selves.
+ Though we are in the dead channel, let as always remember that we should view it as the blue one, filled with the joy of the day.
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.”- Cyril Connolly
ReplyDelete-literature are the works of people whom the reader love and admire it and no matter it was read a long time ago still the reader wont forget it. in reality even though a person is not with you anymore still there's a mark that would be left. unlike journalism is just a simple kind of using words which like person if you don't admire that thing or person it would be easily vanished.
"Literature is the immortality of speech". For me #25 line says that literature seems like a luxurious thing that is so expensive. It seems like an air around us that dominates our whole being. Literature becomes immortal in thought in such a way that literature is being passed from one generation to another generation and it pictures out the passing of our culture and tradition to another generation of human beings that comes. Precisely in my own perspective,literature becomes the absorber of our feelings its because by this we can express the feelings that is inculcated in our hearts. Literature is such a wonderful art that is priceless and cannot be diminished or nullified throughout the time.
ReplyDelete#30 "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is incomprehensible" -Albert Einstein
ReplyDelete-We can relate it into life's reality in which there were some instances that there are some unexpected things that will happen to us that caused our mind into trouble. We may ask some question why?why is this all happening? that seems to be unanswerable by anyone. But then, by time we will then realize and answer our own question. That there are some things that we see to be a big issue but actually it never needs much of our attention. And things that we treated to be in less value but too late to realize its worth. We are in the world with full of doubts but we must need not to forget the word "hope". =)
JUNABEL ANDAM
ReplyDelete2."Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."- G. K. Chesterton
This book is not to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.- Dorothy Parker
It’s true that literature is a luxury since it serves us our riches or wealth. It contains records of what people think and feel from the past which is still alive until at present. Precisely, literature is an effective and a very relevant writings that will help us understand other cultures and tradition. Through this, we started to know the past that help us understand the present which serve as a guide to our future. In addition, it’s already been a treasure that will last for a very long time.
We all know that fiction is said to be a literature which is very essential for it plays a vital rule in one’s life. It is said to be a necessity even though we know that it came from the writer’s imagination. Oftentimes, we are carried by our feelings and wild imaginations. Thus, the good writings of fiction help us understand that the life of human beings have much in common in the stories.
Therefore, we should learn to love literature. Furthermore, we should not only read those writings but also we have to go beyond and understand deeply on what’s the true meaning of what we read. It’s a great challenge for us to exert more efforts to dig deeply about the lessons brought by literature to our life.
#36 "Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.” William J. Durant
ReplyDelete= As I've read the lines it enables me to comprehend more, this lines talked about the teachers who taught his/her students, and so in return students may able to learn more deeply in which they apply it real life situation.
Therefore, all the sorrows and sufferings that teachers felt is worth it if her/ his students succeeded in their own field. And most especially it's a great fulfillment in the teachers to know that his/ her students achieved their dreams and aspirations in life.....
VILLANUEVA, MA. MYCA MELISSA C.
ReplyDelete39. “When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.”Erwin Bourdet
From this quote I had, for me it implies that in Literature suffering is part of human condition. Example for that is the literature suffering from love, hunger etc. Suffering itself could be reflection of personal experiences along the journey that we undertake in our own life. The memory of the person is can be the hope which can be built within suffering and taken into the future. As they say Only suffering through this we can realese ourselves for futher suffering. That is the ironic of life in human kind that salvation arrives through suffering. Example for that is of man is through love in love but to love is to suffer because a man cannot remake himself without any suffering. That it is part of our life to suffer, to be hurt but through this we could realize that we learn and we became matured in our life.
# 29..Van Gee A. Reyes..“The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.”- Bede Jarrett
ReplyDeleteIn our life sometimes we cannot control our anger and the reason why we do evil.We are weak with our emotions.We are not conscious to do evil because we think that it is the solution of all.The more we get anger the more we motivate to do evil. WE must realize that the best solution for all is looking forward to the positive side and perform things with love and sympathy.
15. “A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.”- Stendhal
ReplyDeleteYeah,' it's true!,it serves as a guide in our journey for better life. but the choice are ours to make, and ours on how we handle things right. In life, we must not have to depend on it but to work as well.Novels are sometimes true and sometimes just an imagination of an author, we must not see the literal happening on it but we must see what really the message behind in other words the deeper meaning and understanding.
6.“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” –Smith and Jones
ReplyDelete>> Now, I truly believe that educating myself is my major obligation and this obligation doesn't ends until I'll lose my breath. I have gone through several experiences and circumstances but some have been forgotten. However, the effects of education in my life keep me standing and indeed education survives. This is possible when someone will use the learning they have had and value it much. If those learning are not used it'll be forgotten but if we strive hard again to know all of those then, that is education. For me, i may forget some but the value of education that changed me for the better is inevitable.