Bibliophilia Literary Quotes & Sayings

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. — Baruch Spinoza

I'm very open to dating and finding a guy. — Kristin Cavallari

Thinking prevents us from touching life deeply. I think, therefore I am really not there. — Thich Nhat Hanh

By way of this unprecedented, unbridled literary promiscuity, I have made some pleasant discoveries. — Anna Lyndsey

You, Book! You are the only one who won't deceive, won't attack, won't insult, won't abandon! You're quiet - but you laugh, shout, and sing: you're obedient - but you amaze, tease, and entice; you're small, but you contain countless peoples. Nothing but a handful of letters, that's all, but if you feel like it, you can turn heads, confuse, spin, cloud, make tears spring to the eyes, take away the breath, the entire soul will stir in the wind like a canvas, will rise in waves and flap its wings! — Tatyana Tolstaya

Feuerbach ... recognizes ... "even love, in itself the truest, most inward sentiment, becomes an obscure, illusory one through religiousness, since religious love loves man only for God's sake, therefore loves man only apparently, but in truth God only." Is this different with moral love? Does it love the man, this man for this man's sake, or for morality's sake, for Man's sake, and so-for homo homini Deus-for God's sake? — Max Stirner

Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might? — William J. Murray

While many have been left behind by Part D, there is a clear winner: the drug industry. Independent analysts predict that Part D will increase drug industry profits by $139 billion over the next eight years. Glaxo-SmithKline's second-quarter net income already jumped 14 percent, and other leading drug companies also have benefited. — Louise Slaughter

I'd like to work more, but I don't just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do interesting characters, and I'd like to be cast against type. — Jacqueline Bisset

May today's short moments of joy become treasured memories in the future. — Nanae Chrono

The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so. — Idries Shah

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses. — Rex Stout

What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting themselves? — G.K. Chesterton

And he was not angry. But, before the pain set in, he had the time to be rueful. He had laid everything out, the best of himself, and it had not been enough. He had considered himself a bohemian, but she had proved too bohemian for him. And he had failed to understand her explanation of herself. — Julian Barnes

If God is a crutch, then atheism is a coma. — Brad Stine

I always did healthy things. I didn't sit around in nightclubs. Sure, I had my fair share of fun, but no one could ever accuse me of being a dilettante and doing nothing. I was always on this unbelievable quest to go and do. — Marie-Chantal Claire