Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance.
His most important books are his two logics, and these must be understood if the reasons for his views on other subjects are to be rightly apprehended.
Nature and books and (later) mathematics saved me from complete despondency.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, “Lighthouses” as the poet said “erected in the sea of time.” They are companions, teachers,magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.
