“With his friends, an egotist. With love, lazy. With brightness, dull. With power, passive. With his own soul, evasive.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Hearts quaking with cheap and feeble charity or oozing potato love have not written history.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Everybody pays the heart lip service, of course, but everybody is more familiar with the absence of love than with its presence… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“This development is possibly related to the fact that so much of "value" has been absorbed by technology itself. It is "good"… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. — 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
