Quotes 941 till 960 of 1554.
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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
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Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand,
To read it well: that is, to understand.The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio I, To The Reader, lines 1-2. -
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
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Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
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Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.
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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
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