Famous quotes containing the words european, source and/or book:
“Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skins and furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of mans afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.”
—Denis Diderot (17131784)
“We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17491832)