Germaine de Staël citáty
Germaine de Staël
Datum narození: 22. duben 1766
Datum úmrtí: 14. červenec 1817
Další jména: Anna Louise Germaine De Stael-Holstein, Anne-Louise-Germaine Staël, Anna Louise Germaine De Stael-Holsteinov, Анна-Луиза Жермена де Сталь
Germaine de Staël, obvykle nazývaná Madame de Staël byla francouzsko-švýcarská spisovatelka.
Citáty Germaine de Staël
„Sláva může být pro ženu jen zábleskem štěstí v jejím smutku.“
Zdroj: [Delorme, Philippe, 2009, Zavraždění králové, Levné knihy, 155, 978-80-7309-671-7]
„Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
The Influence of Literature upon Society (De la littérature considérée dans ses rapports avec les istitutions sociales, 1800) , Pt. 2, ch. 4
Kontext: The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.
„The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
The Influence of Literature upon Society (De la littérature considérée dans ses rapports avec les istitutions sociales, 1800) , Pt. 2, ch. 4
Kontext: The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.
„The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, kniha Corinne
La vue d'un tel monument est comme une musique continuelle et fixée, qui vous attend pour vous faire du bien quand vous vous en approchez.
Bk. 4, ch. 3
The idea that "architecture is frozen music" — an aphorism of disputed origin sometimes misattributed to de Staël — is found in a number of German writers of the period.
Corinne (1807)
„Love is the whole history of a woman's life; it is an episode in a man's.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un épisode dans celle des hommes.
A Treatise on the Influence of the Passions (De l'influence des passions, 1796), Section 1, ch. 4
„In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Letter to Juliette Récamier (October 5, 1810), quoted in J. Christopher Herold, Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël (New York: Grove Press, 1958), p. 401
„The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Pt. 4, ch. 10
De l’Allemagne [Germany] (1813)
„Be happy, but be so by piety.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, kniha Corinne
Bk. 20, ch. 3
Corinne (1807)
„Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end: we fancy that we have always possessed what we love, so difficult is it to imagine how we could have lived without it.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, kniha Corinne
Bk. 8, ch. 2, as translated by Isabel Hill (1833)
Variant translation: It is certainly through love that eternity can be understood; it confuses all thoughts about time; it destroys the ideas of beginning and end; one thinks one has always been in love with the person one loves, so difficult is it to conceive that one could live without him.
As translated by Sylvia Raphael (1998)
Corinne (1807)
„The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.“
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Probably a paraphrase of this line from De l’Allemagne, Pt. 3. ch. 10. "Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line." Not known from Goethe's works.
Misattributed
