Quotes About Reading

People who read mainly the Grounding and the Critique often criticize Kant for having his head in the clouds and for not being convincingly capable of dealing with concrete cases. A reading of the Metaphysics of Morals will show anyone how unfounded such criticisms are.

Sie arbeiteten, lasen, gingen herum, aßen, organisierten Spiele, Darbietungen, aber nur ein Teil ihrer selbst handelte; der andere schlief einen schmerzhaften Schlaf und würde erst an dem gesegneten Tag (doch wann würde er kommen? Wann?) erwachen, an dem man ihnen sagte: «Jetzt ist es soweit, es ist vorbei».

Even if he hadn't given it to me, you don't throw away another person's books. If I want to read something, I want to read it.

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.

A really malicious letter should be read once only and destroyed, or best of all not read at all. These things lodge in the mind.

It's much better that I should read the letter. Otherwise I shall be endlessly wondering what was in it.

Today we will read love poetry. You shall read aloud to me and we will weep together.

He did not read. This continued to amaze Ludens who could not imagine existence without reading.

Having a great phase of reading Dickens – gosh he is good – though so careless. But so beautifully funny – as well as other things. Oh to achieve the purely funny! Where does it reside?

Si por mi fuera, pillaria todos los libros que hay, haria una pila enorme con ellos y los quemaría todos. Los libros sólo sirven para que los listos farden acerca de toda la mierda que han leído. Todo lo que necesitas saber lo puedes sacar de la prensa y de la tele. Capullos pretenciosos. Ya les daré yo jodidos libros.

Si por mi fuera, pillaría todos los libros que hay, haría una pila enorme con ellos y los quemaría todos. Los libros sólo sirven para que los listos farden acerca de toda la mierda que han leído. Todo lo que necesitas saber lo puedes sacar de la prensa y de la tele. Capullos pretenciosos. Ya les daré yo jodidos libros.

Dintotdeauna cititul însemnase pentru el bucuria cea mai mare È™i mai statornic?, È™i cu atât mai mult îl pasiona acum, când în povestea triumfului sau a înfrângerilor, a suferinÈ›elor sau a bucuriilor altora g?sea o evadare din umbra st?ruitoare a propriei sale nereuÈ™ite... în fiecare carte pe care o citea încerca s? descopere È›elul care ar putea da vieÈ›ii lui un nou sens.

But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew. Let me tell you, if you don't know it from your own experience, that reading a good book, losing yourself in the interest of words and thoughts, is for some people (me, for instance) an incredible intensity of happiness.

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

In short, the age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate. Now that is gone, and the youngsters have their glazed eyes fixed on the television tube. The result is clear. True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily dumbing down.

He de decir, si usted no lo sabe por propia experiencia, que leer un buen libro, embebido en el interés de sus palabras y pensamientos, produce en algunas personas (en mí, por ejemplo) una increíble sensación de felicidad.

Yet he had expended much of an inquisitive nature upon random reading. By the sheer force of indiscriminate voracity, he had gleaned a smattering of practically everything, and by means of a trick memory had managed to keep it all straight.

Her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it.

Fue lectora voraz desde muy corta edad, con los peligros que esa costumbre conlleva.

I was a voracious reader and what I had learned in books confirmed that the world changes constantly and humanity evolves, but the changes are only obtained after much struggle.

Destinul unei carti incepe atunci cand ea este citita nu cand este scrisa! -

Não há nada tão insatisfatório como um fim com pontas soltas, essa tendência moderna de deixar os livros a meio.

Mi aveva convinto che al buio i personaggi lasciano le pagine e vagano per la casa; io nascondevo la testa per paura del diavolo negli specchi e di quella folla di personaggi che peregrinavano per le stanze rivivendo le loro avventure e passioni: pirati, cortigiane, banditi, streghe e donzelle. Alle otto e mezzo dovevo spegnere la luce e dormire, ma zio Pablo mi regalò una lanterna per leggere sotto le lenzuola; da allora ho una perversa inclinazione alla lettura segreta.

Estaba interesado en leer a Marx, un judío que provocaba revoluciones en todo el mundo.