worldview and perspective on Books

Have you ever heard of the Greatest Books of the Western World collection? Published by Encyclopedia Britannica in 1954, this comprehensive series was edited by Robert Hutchins and Mortimer J. A...

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you, but only you can save yourself.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.