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- Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
- I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
- To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.
- Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical…
- It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not…
- Read day and night, devour books—these sleeping pills—not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of…
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