Sincere books may sometimes have a certain salutary pungency. Personally I deplore… those sugary confections which readers swallow without realizing that they are quietly poisoning themselves. It had always been my belief that the novelist, like the traveller, enjoyed the liberty to describe what he saw. Following the example of many others, I could have […]
Books Quotes
You won’t find the Alice books reprinted in Mortimer Adler’s set of “The Great Books of the Western World”, but I venture to state the following: It is permissible today to consider a person educated if he or she has not read, say “Das Capital” or books by Hegel and Freud, or indeed more than […]
I am filling my house with books which I am bound to read, and wondering whether the new heavens which await the soul (after the fatal hour) will allow the consultation of these.
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you… I believe that the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
Books are a delightful society. If you go into a room filled with books, even without taking them down from their shelves, they seem to speak to you, to welcome you, to tell you that they have something inside their covers that will be good for you, and that they are willing and desirous to […]
Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes, for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy, Deface […]
It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best […]
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, […]
I don’t like to read books; they muss up my mind.
