Famous quotes containing the words classical, chinese and/or literature:
“Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.”
—Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)