books

"So I resolved to write a novel about his inner life. That was where my personal expertise might help in telling Spinoza's story. After all, he was a human being and therefore must have struggled with …"

"A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall."

"He who gives only what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice."

"Susan Griffin's reading lectures, RealAudio"

"Plato was disturbed by written discourse because … if an individual goes to it with a question in his mind, it “always gives one unvarying answer."

"Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out, "This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!!!" But in this exclamation I wo…"

"He couldn’t fix the cancer of war, couldn’t even slow down the spread, but at least he could admit it was happening."

"No novels, since you just read them once and never again."

"Edward raises the pointer and places its tip against Alec’s forehead. “What’s the use of having a library in there if you won’t open the books, boy? What’s the good of augmented intelligence if you wo…"

"My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race."

"Ram Dass Tapes Library"

"Book version of song"

"Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library of William Bordeaux's Crazy Horse sketch at Yale University"

"I think TV series, games, and general media have changed the way we tell stories. But books will remain. Technology has changed all the others arts: painting, theater, dancing, cinema, music. But lite…"

"Remember, in the Indian way, only the shruti scriptures are of divine origin. The laws, or smriti books, are not of divine origin, but man-made, which means we can change the laws depending on what so…"

"The University of Chicago's Sir Thomas Browne page"

"There is no need for you to develop an armed insurrection. Christ himself has already begun an insurrection with his mouth."

"A virtuous youth and frugal manhood always create a Pisgah for the veteran in righteousness, from which he may calmly survey the stars, and read his " title clear to mansions in the skies," while yet …"

"Oh, I read good books, too, but only Earthside. Why that is, I don't really know. Never stopped to analyze it. Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never …"

"The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers…"