Gabriel Zaid Quotes
- As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can…
- What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we’ve read? What matters is how we feel, how…
- The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.
- Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we’ve chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said,…
- Wealth is above all an accumulation of possibilities
- The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and…
- Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not read. They buy…