“Hearts quaking with cheap and feeble charity or oozing potato love have not written history.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“His early book, not much noticed when it was published, was now on many reading lists, and the younger generation of historians… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“We never learn anything, never in the world, and in spite of all the history books written. They’re just the way we… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“You think history is the history of loving hearts? You fool! Look at these millions of dead. Can you pity them, feel… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“But what is the philosophy of this generation? Not God is dead, that point was passed long ago. Perhaps it should be… — 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
