books

"The Six Enneads translated into English by Stephen MacKenna and B.S. Page"

"Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means..."

"My desire for information was, however, too strong to be turned aside and often have I been sent away from a bookstall when the owner became offended at my standing reading, which I used to do until I…"

"I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back."

"Strange to see radical anti-Semites using Facebook. I'd like to call that Zuckerberg's Paradox."

"She read a little of it. I give her review verbatim:—"Oh, your book? It's all about those how-wid Wajahs. I didn't understand it."

"Thirdly, I assume that those who set themselves seriously to benefit by the instructions in this book are prepared to carry out the simple requirements, to read what is written thoughtfully, to attemp…"

"The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life."

"Graphic novelist: Excuse me…you’ve got a copy of the “Protocols of Zion” there! …Why?"

"Andover-Harvard Theological Library page on the notebooks of William Rounseville Alger"

"The papers are printed and circulated among the members, and begin to form a little volume. Among the contributors have been Archbishop Huxley and Professor Manning."

"Reading African American women poets politicized me. And it was the fact that poetry politicized me that had to do with then saving my life. Then all of the sudden, I started questioning; that's the d…"

"The Complete Pythagoras, an on-line book containing all survived biographies and Pythagorean fragments."

"Virtual Lewis Mumford Library"

"Eighteen centuries have passed since the Bible was finished. They have been centuries of great changes. In their course the world has been wrought over into newness at almost every point. But, to-day,…"

"Some of the strongest supporters of the war declare that we are a Christian nation, yet use their religious beliefs to justify the war. They claim it is our Christian duty to remake the Middle East an…"

"She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat."

"This is a book and a body that is so warm to the touch. My touch."

"Thomas Cahill in conversation with Margaret Atwood at the New York Public Library, December 1, 2006."

"You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not from Shopsy's."