Quotes about book
book boys ideas
There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. Hermann Hesse
book ideas taught
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
book writing humanity
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
book mean writing
"For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that is eternal. It will become evident that formulations in words and the handling on of these formulations through writing are not only important aids but actually the only means by which humanity can have a history and continuing consciousness of itself."
book angel ice
All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person.
book way gone
The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.
book herbs bees
As great a store Have we of books as bees of herbs or more. Henry Vaughan
book voyages ships
I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
book reading heart
I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
book style rivals
Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians. Joseph Addison
book generations genius
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
book fall perfection
There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.
book writing hands
I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents. Jose Rizal
book destiny past
To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.
book differences people
I know that it is not enough to be remembered for books and theories. One does not make a difference unless it is a difference in people's lives. Joseph A. Schumpeter
book writing who-i-am
I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits. Jose Saramago
book reading home
I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
book writing ifs
If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.
book calm console
Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us. Jose Marti
book giving library
Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until the present, the librarian has been principally occupied with the book as a thing, as a material object. From now on he must give his attention to the book as a living function. He must become a policeman, master of the raging book. Jose Ortega y Gasset
book library librarian
The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.
book good-book
Who learns most from a good book is the author. Jose Bergamin
book idols choices
Being on 'Idol,' you have no choice but to be an open book. Jordin Sparks
book boys letters
As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight. Jorge Luis Borges
book might kind
The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize.
book past thinking
I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many times, no? I try to think of what I wrote, it’s very unhealthy to think about the past, the case of elegies is very sad, as much as the case of complaints.
book night tears
Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and the night.
book order serenity
Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.
book library paradise
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
book
I have always come to life after coming to books.
book ambition exercise
The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to contruct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the otherslike a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.
book cities pieces
I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and pieces, and yet I know what it is, with that bold and legitimate certainty with which we assert our knowledge of a city, without ever having been rewarded with the intimacy of all the many streets it includes.
book shelves standing-there
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.