"It is with books as with the..." - Quote by Voltaire
It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.
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“It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.”
“Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling”
“Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.”
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“He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.”
“I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.”
“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
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“Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.”
“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.”
“We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.”