Books Quote by Aberjhani

Intellectuals of [Albert] Camus' age who had previously disliked him now appreciate him. And at that point we come back to literature, and it's…

— Catherine Camus

“[T]he narrative intelligences of our books should leave us feeling a bit pressed intellectually, a bit outmatched, amazed ultimately by the talent of the…

— Bryan Basamanowicz

Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and striking contrariety…

— Samuel Johnson

As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a…

— Michiko Kakutani

“The intellect is a boat which can take us to the very shores of understanding, but once there we must leave it behind in…

— Ashavan

“In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as if it were a…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Inspiration without intellect is useless and dangerous; and the poet will be able to perform few wonders, when he is astonished by wonders.”

— Novalis

And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him…

— Iain Pears

I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books.

— Catherine Camus

“Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.”

— Phillip Athans

“Surely intelligence wasn't enough; moral clarity was needed as well.”

— Paul Kalanithi

“we access our greatest intelligence through engaging our life with the spirit of wonderment, not through seeking absolute conclusions.”

— Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel