Louis-Ferdinand Celine Quotes

Louis-Ferdinand Celine — French Writer born on May 27, 1894, died on July 01, 1961

Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of Dr. Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, a French novelist, pamphleteer and physician. The name Céline was the first name of his grandmother. He developed a new style of writing that modernized French literature. He remains controversial to this day because of his virulent antisemitism, Holocaust Denial and racism... (wikipedia)

We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine Quotes

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