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Top 20 Lion Feuchtwanger Quotes (2025 Update)

Lion Feuchtwanger Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

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Lion Feuchtwanger Quote: “I am always thinking of that remark of Theodor Lessing, which I quoted earlier in this book, that history is “the art of giving meaning to the meaningless.”

2. “I am always thinking of that remark of Theodor Lessing, which I quoted earlier in this book, that history is “the art of giving meaning to the meaningless.”

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Lion Feuchtwanger Quote: “It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker.”

3. “It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker.”

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Lion Feuchtwanger Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Lion Feuchtwanger Quote: “What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.”

5. “What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.”

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Lion Feuchtwanger Quote: “There’s only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there’s no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.”

6. “There’s only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there’s no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.”

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Lion Feuchtwanger Quote: “Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.”

7. “Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.”

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Lion Feuchtwanger Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Lion Feuchtwanger Quote: “An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.”

9. “An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.”

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Lion Feuchtwanger Quote: “I am a slow worker, but I could have written at least two books more in the time that I have been obliged to spend waiting around public offices and in the back yards of recruiting stations – waiting unnecessarily for unnecessary things.”

10. “I am a slow worker, but I could have written at least two books more in the time that I have been obliged to spend waiting around public offices and in the back yards of recruiting stations – waiting unnecessarily for unnecessary things.”

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Lion Feuchtwanger Quote: “However small we made ourselves, we took space and air from our neighbours. We were a torment to one another.”

11. “However small we made ourselves, we took space and air from our neighbours. We were a torment to one another.”

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Lion Feuchtwanger Quote: “The years that had passed had displayed vividly before our eyes the fickleness of human attitudes.”

12. “The years that had passed had displayed vividly before our eyes the fickleness of human attitudes.”

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Lion Feuchtwanger Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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Lion Feuchtwanger Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Lion Feuchtwanger Quote: “From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.”

15. “From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.”

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Lion Feuchtwanger Quote: “There were of course exceptions, but on the whole the “intellectuals” among us withstood the hardships of the journey resignedly and patiently. They proved to be tougher, quieter, more uncomplaining than many men from other walks of life who were physically stronger and physically better trained.”

16. “There were of course exceptions, but on the whole the “intellectuals” among us withstood the hardships of the journey resignedly and patiently. They proved to be tougher, quieter, more uncomplaining than many men from other walks of life who were physically stronger and physically better trained.”

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Lion Feuchtwanger Quote: “It has always been a blessed experience with me after an illness to feel that I was recovering.”

17. “It has always been a blessed experience with me after an illness to feel that I was recovering.”

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Lion Feuchtwanger Quote: “But one should not trust first impulses. Instinct is not always a safe counsellor by any means.”

18. “But one should not trust first impulses. Instinct is not always a safe counsellor by any means.”

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Lion Feuchtwanger Quote: “Had I not been thinking always of the ludicrous aspects of my own plight, or of the plight of others, I could not have survived that depressing, degrading experience without spiritual harm.”

19. “Had I not been thinking always of the ludicrous aspects of my own plight, or of the plight of others, I could not have survived that depressing, degrading experience without spiritual harm.”

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Lion Feuchtwanger Quote: “I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.”

20. “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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Lion Feuchtwanger Quote: “It was not living, it was vegetation. We longed for death.”

21. “It was not living, it was vegetation. We longed for death.”

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Lion Feuchtwanger Quote: “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.”

22. “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

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