The Quotations Bookshelf

Memorable Quotations:
Philosophers of Western Civilization

This memorable collection of quotations is a treasure trove of insight and wisdom by 90 of the world's greatest philosophers of Western civilization, including Saint Thomas Aquinas, Hannah Arendt, Aristotle, Saint Augustine, Sir Alfred J. Ayer, Francis Bacon, Simone de Beauvoir, Edmund Burke, Albert Camus, Cicero, John Dewey, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Engels, Heraclitus, Thomas Hobbes, Eric Hoffer, Immanuel Kant, John Locke, Niccolò Machiavelli, John Stuart Mill, Lewis Mumford, Friedrich Nietzsche, Blaise Pascal, Plato, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Bertrand Russell, George Santayana, Jean-Paul Sartre, Socrates, Benedict Spinoza, Henry David Thoreau, Alexis de Tocqueville, Voltaire, and Alfred North Whitehead.

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Famous Teachers of the Past

The perfect present for the teachers in your life! Includes: Lord Acton, Henry Brooks Adams, John Adams, A. Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, Susan B. Anthony, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Hannah Arendt, Aristotle, Matthew Arnold, Isaac Asimov, W. H. Auden, Saint Augustine, Simone de Beauvoir, Henri Bergson, Allan Bloom, Charlotte Brontë, Anthony Burgess, Thomas Carlyle, Willa Cather, Confucius, John Dewey, W. E. B. Du Bois, Will Durant, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Margaret Fuller, Georg Hegel, Thomas Hobbes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William James, Lyndon B. Johnson, James Joyce, Immanuel Kant, D. H. Lawrence, C. S. Lewis, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Herbert Marcuse, John Milton, Friedrich Nietzsche, Plato, Bertrand Russell, George Santayana, May Sarton, Jean-Paul Sartre, Seneca, Adam Smith, Socrates, Anne Sullivan, Henry David Thoreau, Lionel Trilling, Booker T. Washington, Evelyn Waugh, Simone Weil, Thornton Wilder, and Woodrow Wilson.

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English Writers of the Past

This remarkable collection of quotations includes 162 of England's finest writers of the past. Both entertaining and thought-provoking, this book acquaints the reader with luminaries of English literature, including Jane Austen, Francis Bacon, the Brontës, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Samuel Butler, Lord Byron, Lewis Carroll, G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Noël Coward, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, E. M. Forster, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy, Aldous Huxley, Ben Jonson, John Keats, D. H. Lawrence, C. S. Lewis, W. Somerset Maugham, George Meredith, John Milton, George Orwell, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Evelyn Waugh, H. G. Wells, and Virginia Woolf.

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Irish Writers of the Past

This compilation of remarkable quotations is a gem of great sayings from William Allingham, Samuel Beckett, Brendan Behan, Marguerite Blessington, Elizabeth Bowen, Edmund Burke, Joyce Cary, Susannah Centlivre, James Connolly, John Philpot Curran, Maria Edgeworth, George Farquhar, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Oliver Goldsmith, Lady Gregory, James Joyce, Patrick Kavanagh, Emily Lawless, C. S. Lewis, Samuel Lover, Robert Lynd, Charles Macklin, George Moore, Thomas Moore, Arthur Murphy, Lord Alfred Harmsworth Northcliffe, Sean O'Casey, Sean O'Faolain, Patrick Henry Pearse, George W. Russell, George Bernard Shaw, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Sir Richard Steele, James Stephens, Laurence Sterne, Jonathan Swift, J. M. Synge, Richard Chevenix Trench, Percival Arland Ussher, Oscar Wilde, and W. B. Yeats.

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French Writers of the Past

This fabulous collection of quotations from more than a hundred French writers of the past (including Honoré de Balzac, Simone de Beauvoir, Georges Bernanos, Albert Camus, Jean Cocteau, Colette, Cyrano de Bergerac, Alexandre Dumas, Marguerite Duras, Gustave Flaubert, Anatole France, André Gide, Heloise, Victor Hugo, Molière, Alfred de Musset, Anais Nin, Blaise Pascal, Marcel Proust, Jean Racine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, George Sand, Jean-Paul Sartre, Madame de Stael, Stendhal, Voltaire, and Simone Weil) is a must for every lover of great literature.

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American Women Writers of the Past

This outstanding compilation of over 200 of America's best women writers of the past is both entertaining and thought-provoking. It reacquaints the reader with famous writers--Louisa May Alcott, Faith Baldwin, Erma Bombeck, Margaret Bourke-White, Pearl S. Buck, Taylor Caldwell, Rachel Carson, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Emily Dickinson, Edna Ferber, Zona Gale, Lillian Hellman, Zora Neale Hurston, Shirley Jackson, Clare Boothe Luce, Dorothy Parker, Jessamyn West, Edith Wharton--and lesser-known authors, such as Elisabeth Marbury, Maria McIntosh, Agnes Meyer, Maria Mitchell, Margaret Preston, Evelyn Scott, to name only a few.

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Massachusetts Writers of the Past

This collection is a gem of discerning wisdom, lovely thoughts, and astute wit gleaned from the words of great writers from Massachusetts: Abigail Smith Adams, Henry Brooks Adams, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Samuel Adams, A. Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, Fred Allen, Susan Brownell Anthony, Isaac Asimov, Clara Barton, Robert Benchley, Louis D. Brandeis, William Cullen Bryant, John Cheever, Lydia M. Child, E. E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, W. E. B. Du Bois, Will Durant, Mary Baker Eddy, T.S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Frost, Margaret Fuller, William Lloyd Garrison, Susan Glaspell, Ruth Gordon, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Helen Hunt Jackson, John F. Kennedy, Jack Kerouac, Henry Cabot Lodge, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Amy Lawrence Lowell, James Russell Lowell, Herman Melville, Wendell Phillips, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, George Santayana, Anne Sexton, Anne Sullivan, Henry David Thoreau, Daniel Webster, Edith Wharton, and John Greenleaf Whittier.

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Humorists, Wits, and Satirists of the Past

This fun compilation features words of wisdom, insight, and comedy from 200 famous (and not so well-known) humorists, wits, and satirists of the past, including Minna Antrim, Tallulah Bankhead, Bernard Baruch, Brendan Behan, Robert Benchley, Ambrose Bierce, Josh Billings, Bertolt Brecht, Vera Brittain, Heywood Broun, Gelett Burgess, Lord Byron, Truman Capote, Lewis Carroll, Charlie Chaplin, Lord Chesterfield, Agatha Christie, Cyril Connolly, Benjamin Disraeli, Albert Einstein, Gustave Flaubert, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Goodman, Ian Hay, Kin Hubbard, Alice James, Alfred Jarry, Karl Kraus, Andrew Lang, Walter Lippmann, David Lloyd George, Harriet Martineau, Groucho Marx, Mary McCarthy, H. L. Mencken, O. Henry, Dorothy Parker, Pablo Picasso, Ezra Pound, Jules Renard, Will Rogers, Helen Rowland, Saki, George Bernard Shaw, Fulton J. Sheen, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Logan Pearsall Smith, John Steinbeck, Adlai Stevenson, Jonathan Swift, James Thurber, Lionel Trilling, Mark Twain, E. B. White, and Oscar Wilde.

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Jewish Writers of the Past

This compilation of remarkable quotations is a treasure trove of perceptive wisdom, beautiful thoughts, and sharp wit gleaned from the words of memorable Jewish writers of the past: Theodor W. Adorno, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Mary Antin, Hannah Arendt, Sholem Asch, Sir Alfred J. Ayer, Isaac Asimov, Vicki Baum, Walter Benjamin, Irving Berlin, Maurice Blanchot, Allan Bloom, Louis D. Brandeis, Hermann Broch, Joseph Brodsky, Lenny Bruce, Elias Canetti, Edward Dahlberg, Benjamin Disraeli, Albert Einstein, Edna Ferber, Anne Frank, Sigmund Freud, Allen Ginsberg, Emma Goldman, Ben Hecht, Heinrich Heine, Joseph Heller, Lillian Hellman, Eugène Ionesco, Franz Kafka, Arthur Koestler, Janusz Korczak, Jerzy Kosinski, Karl Kraus, Oscar Levant, Primo Levi, Walter Lippmann, Moses Ben Maimon (Maimonides), Bernard Malamud, Herbert Marcuse, Groucho Marx, Karl Marx, André Maurois, Michel de Montaigne, Howard Nemerov, Dorothy Parker, Boris Pasternak, S. J. Perelman, Marcel Proust, Ayn Rand, Laura Riding, Muriel Rukeyser, Bruno Schulz, Delmore Schwartz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Benedict Spinoza, Gertrude Stein, Lionel Trilling, Leon Trotsky, Barbara Tuchman, Julian Tuwim, Simone Weil, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Anzia Yezierska, and Israel Zangwill.

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Aestheticians of the Past

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African-American Writers

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American Humorists and Wits

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American Philosophers of the Past

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American Presidents of the Past

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American Southern Writers

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Artists of the Past

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British Women Writers of the Past

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Children's Literature Writers of the Past

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Economists of the Past

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Edwardian Writers

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Essayists of the Past

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Famous Actors of the Past

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Famous Curmudgeons

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Famous Lawyers of the Past

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Famous Women of the Past

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George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde

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German Writers of the Past

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Great American Writers

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Historians of the Past

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Journalists of the Past

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Military Leaders of the Past

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Nobel Prize Winners of the Past

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Novelists of the Past

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Playwrights of the Past

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Poets of the Past

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Polish Writers of the Past

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Politicians of the Past

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Psychologists of the Past

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Pulitzer Prize Winners of the Past

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Religious Leaders of the Past

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Screenwriters

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Short Story Writers of the Past

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Statesmen of the Past

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Victorian Writers

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Women Novelists of the Past

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Aquarius Luminaries of the Past

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Aries Luminaries of the Past

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Cancer Luminaries of the Past

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Capricorn Luminaries of the Past

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Gemini Luminaries of the Past

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Leo Luminaries of the Past

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Libra Luminaries of the Past

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Pisces Luminaries of the Past

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Sagittarius Luminaries of the Past

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Scorpio Luminaries of the Past

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Taurus Luminaries of the Past

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Virgo Luminaries of the Past

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Women Journalists of the Past

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U.S. Democrats of the Past

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U.S. Republicans of the Past

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Women Playwrights of the Past

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Women Poets of the Past

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New England Writers

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American Novelists of the Past

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