Citations sur la beauté et l'apparence
AvecGermaine de Staël (1766–1817) femme de lettres, romancière et essayiste française
Mai 1835
Portraits de Femmes, Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Gallimard, Folio Classique, 1998, 1844, 129, Madame de Staël, 2-07-039493-X
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André Maurois (1885–1967) romancier essayiste et historien de la littérature français
Don Juan ou la vie de Byron, 1952
Suzanne Curchod (1737–1794) femme de lettres française et salonnière, épouse de Jacques Necker.
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Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893) philosophe et historien français
À propos de Balzac.
Nouveaux essais de critique et d'histoire
Dominique Venner (1935–2013) historien, journaliste et essayiste français d'extrême droite
Le choc de l'histoire, 2011
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) romancier, critique littéraire, essayiste, journaliste et écrivain français
Le Cabinet des Antiques 1839
Frank Zappa (1940–1993) musicien américain
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.
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Washington Irving (1783–1859) écrivain américain
Many of the visions and revelations handed down as having been given by him are spurious. The miracles ascribed to him are all fabrications of Moslem zealots. He expressly and repeatedly disclaimed all miracles excepting the Koran ; which, considering its incomparable merit, and the way in which it had come down to him from heaven, he pronounced the greatest of miracles. And here we must indulge a few observations on this famous document. While zealous Moslems and some of the most learned doctors of the faith draw proofs of its divine origin from the inimitable excellence of its style and composition, and the avowed illiteracy of Mahomet, less devout critics have pronounced it a chaos of beauties and defects; without method or arrangement; full of obscurities, incoherencies, repetitions, false versions of scriptural stories, and direct contradictions. The truth is that the Koran as it now exists is not the same Koran delivered by Mahomet to his disciples, but has undergone many corruptions and interpolations.
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Mahomet and his successors, 1849