Book Quote by Michel Foucault

“You have not grasped a complex unity if all you know about it is how it is one. You must also know how it…

— Charles Van Doren

“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

“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical…

— Marcel Proust

“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical…

— Marcel Proust

“The world is a book of many pages waiting to be read. The self is a library of ancient tomes written in languages you…

— Gregory V. Diehl

“No book is really a fixed object. Every reader reads a book differently, and each book works in a different way on each reader.”

— John Connolly

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

— Norman Cousins

“No book has worth by itself, but by the relation to what you have from many other books, it weighs.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the…

— Marcel Proust

“However completely people might fulfil themselves in other spheres, if they don’t possess this understanding between their hands and material objects, they can never…

— Madeleine Bourdouxhe

“You must, in studying Nature, always consider both each single thing and the whole: nothing is inside and nothing is outside, for what is…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

— Jorge Luis Borges