Book Quote by Benjamin Wiker

“The first impression of the writings of Mr. J. J. Rousseau received by a knowledgeable reader, who is reading for something more than vanity…

— Immanuel Kant

“He didn’t remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe furrow and a yielding spine,…

— Gregory Maguire

The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially…

— Mikhail Lermontov

Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with…

— Thomas A. Edison

“I have always been interested in this man . My father had a set of Tom Paine 's books on the shelf at home.…

— Thomas A. Edison

That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while awake. He…

— Steven Millhauser

“A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of…

— Marcel Proust

“Brrr, who had never admired books particularly...didn't remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe…

— Gregory Maguire

“This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time — such as…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The inquiry begins with Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78), who was the first of the modern intellectuals, their archetype and in many ways the most influential…

— Paul Johnson

Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

— Edgar Allan Poe

In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed…

— Poppy Z. Brite