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
All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“If you could have confidence in nature you would not have to fear. It would keep you up. Creative is nature. Rapid.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Nature is a deep imitator. And as man is the prince of organisms he is master of adaptations. He is the artist… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“How deeply (beyond words) he speaks to us about the mysteries of our common human nature. And how unstrained and easy his… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“The earth is literally a mirror of thoughts. Objects themselves are embodied thoughts. Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Still women- women. They do themselves more credit, there's more reality in women. They live closer to their nature. They have to.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“The earth is a huge ball which nothing holds up in space except its own motion and magnetism, and we conscious things… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Every twenty years or so the earth renews itself in young maidens. You know what I mean? Her cheeks had the perfect… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks… — 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
