(Returning to lecture at Cornell University after 20 years, Bloom was faced with a student banner – a bedsheet unfurled that read “Great Sex is better than Great Books.”) “Sure,” retorts Bloom, “but you can’t have one without the other.”
Books Quotes
I read books like mad, but I am careful not to let anything I read influence me.
Filling a bookcase is like gathering a social circle.
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.
Regarding the Boy Scouts, I’m very suspicious of any organization that has a handbook.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Books are embalmed minds.
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Thank God for books! And yet thank God that the great realm of truth lies yet outside of books, too vast to be mastered by types or imprisoned in libraries.
It was a great relief to be in a country where salacious sex literature cannot be sold; where putrid motion pictures and gangster films cannot be shown. The new Germany has burned great masses of corrupting books and magazines along with its bonfires of Jewish and communistic libraries. (1934)
