“But we mustn’t forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of the intellectuals.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“And when I say that he lost his head, what I mean is not that his judgement abandoned him but that his… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“The good are attracted by men’s perceptions and think not for themselves. You must cleanse the gates of vision by self-knowledge, by… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“But can thought wake you from the dream of existence? Not if it becomes a second realm of confusion, another more complicated… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Anyway, it was an age of spiritual exhaustion—all the old dreams were dreamed out. I was angry; I burned like that furnace;… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. — 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 Image
“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 Image
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
