Book Quote by David Benioff

I want to read philosophers.

— Saul Kripke

I've always been interested in philosophy, but I don't' think there are any philosophers anymore. Now it's artists. It's a visual thing - you…

— Michele Lamy

My high school did not offer courses in philosophy, so the books that initially stimulated philosophical reflection in me were novels by Charles Dickens,…

— Martha Nussbaum

Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and fixed bright…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“EASY PHILOSOPHY by Peter Cole Friedman as soon as you get pubes you’ll start reading Marx then ideally some Plato some Descartes or Kant…

— Peter Cole Friedman

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for.

— Jerry Fodor

[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.

— Anthony Bourdain

Raised in a house filled with old books, I'm drawn to them: the dust jackets that call out a historical moment, the marbled boards,…

— Jacob Weisberg

I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire…

— Samuel Johnson

“The half-brained creature to whom books are other than living things may see with the eyes of a bat and draw with the fingers…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne