Summary-of-book Quote by Saul Bellow Download Open image ““Herzog abandoned this theme with characteristic abruptness”” — Saul Bellow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Summary-of-book
Beyond Words is an exceptionally useful and inspiring digest of Dzogchen (Great Perfection) teachings and the teachers associated with them. The ancient prediction that… — Tsultrim Allione Copy Share Image
“THE MAGIC OF MAKING A START Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Any poet may find the most profound themes scattered along the path. Observation, if passionate, however, might debauch the deepest of themes.” — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Many of the best fantastic stories begin in a leisurely way, set in commonplace surroundings, with exact, meticulous descriptions of an ordinary background, much… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The extinction of all reality is a concept no resignation can encompass. Until annihilation comes. And all grand ideas are seen for what they… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The unchanging Man of history is wonderfully adaptable cloth by his power of endurance and in his capacity for detachment. The fact seems to… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Part of what Brahms and others could never quite get over was that Bruckner the composer of epic symphonies behaved, much of the time,… — Jan Swafford Copy Share Image
“In Schubert, for instance, say, in Wiegenleid D867 or Der Wanderer and den Mond D870 one finds perhaps the ultimate listening experience, the composer… — Andrew Ashdown Copy Share Image
“They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg’s early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“On Broadway it was still bright afternoon and the gassy air was almost motionless under the leaden spokes of sunlight, and sawdust footprints lay… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“But now the emphasis has shifted to making it. People have surrendered their personal moral objectives to government or schools or psychologists. It’s a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“...Madame, I have become a whore through good-will and libertine through virtue.” — The Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
