Epithet/literature

Famous quotes containing the words epithet and/or literature:

“The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)

“If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)