Quotes About Books

I'm entirely of the mindset that when it comes to books, they've got to be paper.

My main goal is still for the books to minister in some way, to teach a spiritual truth, to enlighten people.

My reading of serious books about serious music is seriously compromised by the way that I can't understand any musical theory. Any mentions of D major or C minor are meaningless to me.

Wir können uns einreden, dass wir mit einem Buch nicht allein sind, wie wir uns einreden können, dass wir mit einem Menschen nicht allein sind.

I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books

Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.

Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.

Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.

If I may paraphrase Hobbes 's well-known aphorism, I would say that 'books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Therefor I doubt not but, if it had been a thing contrary to any man's right of dominion, or to the interest of men that have dominion, 'that the three angles of a triangle should be equal to two angles of a square,' that doctrine should have been, if not disputed, yet by the burning of all books of geometry suppressed, as far as he whom it concerned was able.

If I had read as many books as other people, I would know as little.

I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality.

Mas Hans Castorp replicou que preferia possuir os livros, e que a leitura era bem diferente quando o livro lhe pertencia; além disso gostava de sublinhar e assinalar certos trechos a lápis.

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all.

Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific as an old woman secretly poring over books about occultism, trying to tell her own fortune, and learning how to dope out the future form the lines in the palm of her hand. I don't know if I ever got very close to needing a padded cell: but if I ever had gone crazy, I think psychoanalysis would have been the one thing chiefly responsible for it.

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all. I remember how learnedly and enthusiastically I could talk for hours about mysticism and the experiential knowledge of God, and all the while I was stoking the fires of the argument with Scotch and soda.

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all. I remember how learnedly and enthusiastically I could talk for hours about mysticism and the experimental knowledge of God, and all the while I was stoking the fires of the argument with Scotch and soda.

Books that speak like God speak with too much authority to entertain us. Those that speak like good men hold us by their human charm; we grow by finding ourselves in them.

but the one counsel he did give me is something that I will not easily forget: "There are many beautiful mystical books written by the Christians. You should read St. Augustine's Confessions, and The Imitation of Christ

Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Il piacere di leggere è doppio quando si vive con qualcuno che divide con te gli stessi libri.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.