The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without… — 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
