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Great Books
«If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.»
«A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.»
Author: William Styron
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
book, exhausted, exhausts, experiences, Great Books, leave, reading, several, slightly
«All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.»
Author: Moliere
(Actor, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Dancing,
Leadership,
Mankind
| Keywords:
arisen, blundered, blundering, blunders, dancing, failures, fill, Great Books, ills, lack, leaders, mankind, misfortunes, political, Political history, political leader, skill, The History, tragic
«In regards to this great Book (the Bible), I have but to say it is the bestgift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world wascommunicated through this Book. But for it we could not know rightfrom wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here andhereafter, are found portrayed in it.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
bible, communicated, communicates, desirable, gave, Great Books, hereafter, most desirable, portray, portrayed, portraying, portrays, regards, savior, Say It, The Bible, welfare
«Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Great Books, shadings, trimming, trimmings, weighed
«Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
canonize, canonized, delightful, detestable, edition, editions, formerly, Great Books, vulgarize, vulgarized
«In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
climate, consistent, disposed, Empire, Great Books, India, pondered, ponders, serene, spoke, unworthy
«Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind is always at the frontiers of ''what is already known.'' Those great books don't only need custodians and transmitters. To stay alive, they also need adversaries. The most interesting ideas are heresies.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
custodian, custodians, deteriorate, frontiers, Great Books, heresies, perennial, stabilize, stabilized, stabilizing, transmitter, transmitters
«It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
books, Great Books, lost, multitude, numb, number, part, play, rest, small, small number
«Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
architecture, Great Books, human race, Human thought, ideas, in that, not only, page, race, recorded, religious, Religious symbol, symbol, The Great, The Records, vast, Vaster, vastest