People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence,… — 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
