books

"Another war is always coming, Robert. They are never properly extinguished. What sparks war? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual vi…"

"With Facebook and Instagram, it seems like everyone has an online persona. It’s a way of perfecting how the world looks at you."

"Off and on during my life, I have passed sleepless nights in making up lists of the dozen or so books a person might choose to take along if suddenly marooned on a desert island. This is a relatively …"

"Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have."

"English version of the book Maps Of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief"

"The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us – it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV…"

"In the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was very common for boys and young men to read about the lives of the so-called great men for the purpose of extracting lessons in how to be great themselves in w…"

"But the fullest recognition of the horror of the crime and the most complete lack of sympathy with the criminal cannot in the least diminish our horror at the way in which it has become customary to a…"

"In every place where there is no real tax system, such as Honduras or Afghanistan, there is no widespread wealth."

"It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where …"

"This book itself is a transformational device that has come out of the arising new consciousness. The ideas and concepts presented here may be important, but they are secondary. They are no more than …"

"There won't be any delays, we are determined that we are going to leave on October 31st, and it's my job to make sure the country is ready."

"When we first began, Ruth told us she had never written a screenplay. That was not a problem since I had never produced a feature film and Jim had never directed one."

"Ignorance is a dreadful thing and has caused no end of damage to the human race."

"Trochu's Vianney book makes me shudder. Positively frightening - and the saint too. The first time I read it I was quite horrified...Actually he is a second Simeon Stylites - and how hard and stern he…"

"What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately."

"James Joyce, in his novel Finnegans Wake, in 1939, punned on the word “Hindoo” , joking that it came from the names of two Irishmen, Hin-nessy and Doo-ley: “This is the hindoo Shimar Shin between the …"

"The measure of an author's power would be best found in the book which he should sit down to write the day after his library was burnt to the ground."

"A poem is one undivided unimpeded expression fallen ripe into literature, and it is undividedly and unimpededly received by those for whom it was matured."

"The Hebrew race are my most inveterate enemies at home and abroad; they remain what they are and always were: the forgers of lies and the masterminds governing unrest, revolution, upheaval by spreadin…"