Books Quote by simon blackburn Download Open image ““literature is but the shadow of good talk”” — simon blackburn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Philosophy
“Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one may, as… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
“Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.” — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
“Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.” — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories,… — Dave DiGrazie Copy Share Image
“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.” — Willie van Peer Copy Share Image
“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort… — Margaret Mazzantini Copy Share Image
“...grown up with very bad contemporary literature, and they find it much more fifficult to approach earlier writing than we do. The more we… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Literature is not a game for the cloistered elect. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
“seperate morality from its effects, and you will see that everyone regards ias a nuisance, an annoying brake on their freedom of action.” — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
When the hoary old question of nature versus nurture comes around, sides form quickly. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“Someone sitting on a completely unreasonable belief is sitting on a time bomb. The apparently harmless, idiosyncratic belief of the Catholic Church that one… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
Paradigms can be asked to show their worth, an some of them do not stand up. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“It is the thought that the least efficient way of of finding either happiness or pleasure is to pursue them. Put in terms of… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
This doctrine, that of the ghost in the machine, strictly separates the mind or soul from the body. And by doing so it takes… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
