„The wise man reads both books and life itself.“
Quelle: The Importance of Living (1937), p. 388
Lin Yutang1
chinesischer Schriftsteller 1895 - 1976Ähnliche Zitate
„There was a time when only wise books were read
helping us to bear our pain and misery.“
— Czeslaw Milosz Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator 1911 - 2004
"Ars Poetica?"
Kontext: There was a time when only wise books were read
helping us to bear our pain and misery.
This, after all, is not quite the same
as leafing through a thousand works fresh from psychiatric clinics. And yet the world is different from what it seems to be
and we are other than how we see ourselves in our ravings.
„A man is known by the books he reads.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
„It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.“
— Victor Hugo French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802 - 1885
„All teems with symbol; the wise man is the man who in any one thing can read another.“
— Plotinus Neoplatonist philosopher 203 - 270
II.3.7
The First Ennead (c. 250)
— Jimmy Buffett American singer–songwriter and businessman 1946
Son of a Son of a Sailor
Song lyrics, Son of a Son of a Sailor (1978)
„Never trust a man who reads only one book.“
— Arturo Pérez-Reverte Spanish writer and journalist 1951
Quelle: Purity of Blood
— Ezra Pound American Imagist poet and critic 1885 - 1972
Guide to Kulchur (1938), p. 55
Variante: Man reading shd. be man intensely alive. The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.
„Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.“
— Cassandra Clare, buch Clockwork Princess
Quelle: Clockwork Princess
— Simon Stevin Flemish scientist, mathematician and military engineer 1548 - 1620
Géographie, in Les Oeuvres Mathématiques de Simon Stevin de Bruges (1634) ed. Girard, p. 109, as quoted by Jacob Klein]], Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra (1968)
— Meher Baba Indian mystic 1894 - 1969
Part of his public message upon arrival on his second visit to America (19 May 1932).
General sources
— Simone de Beauvoir French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist 1908 - 1986
„When she wanted to escape her life, she read books“
— Jodi Picoult Author 1966
Quelle: Between the Lines
„I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.“
— Orhan Pamuk, buch The New Life
Quelle: The New Life
