In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love,… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative,… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened… — 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
