I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It seems hard for the American people to believe that anything could be more exciting than the times themselves. What we read… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“On Broadway it was still bright afternoon and the gassy air was almost motionless under the leaden spokes of sunlight, and sawdust footprints lay… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow Copy Share
Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. — Saul Bellow Copy Share
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“But now the emphasis has shifted to making it. People have surrendered their personal moral objectives to government or schools or psychologists. It’s a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“I don't know how it all at once came to me to talk a lot, tell jokes, kick up, and suddenly have views. When… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“For knowledge of death makes us wish to extend our lives at the expense of others. And this is the root of the struggle… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
