"A book, like a landscape, is a state……" — Ernest Dimnet

"A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers."

— Ernest Dimnet

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22 Quotes by Ernest Dimnet

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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
Ideas are the roots of creation.
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have…
Ideas are the root of creation.
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when…
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason…
A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does…
Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name
The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the…

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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
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