Platform Staircase

Famous quotes containing the words platform and/or staircase:

    “The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)