Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.
If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.
The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels.
When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.
I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.
Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
This drama between Dean and Ehrlichman took place while I was trying to give the contents to the FBI.
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