Lion Feuchtwanger Quotes & Sayings

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12 most famous Lion Feuchtwanger quotes and sayings (novelist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

“Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.”
Lion Feuchtwanger Quotes
“An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.”
Lion Feuchtwanger Quotes
“I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.”
Lion Feuchtwanger Quotes
“Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.”
Lion Feuchtwanger Quotes
“From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.”
Lion Feuchtwanger Quotes
“There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.”
Lion Feuchtwanger Quotes
“After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.”
Lion Feuchtwanger Quotes
“Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.”
Lion Feuchtwanger Quotes
“What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.”
Lion Feuchtwanger Quotes
“I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.”

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