Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
— Gustave Flaubert
Dylan O'Sullivantwitter.comDo not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. — Gustave Flaubert
the moralists ask us how we can justify our love of reading, we can make use of some such excuse as this. But if we are honest, we know that no such excuse is needed. It is true that we get nothing whatsoever except pleasure from reading; it is true that the wisest of us is unable to say what that pleasure may be. But that pleasure—mysterious, unkn... See more
How Should One Read a Book? (Pt. 2) - Tetragrammaton
Reading is thinking with some one else's head instead of one's own. But to think for oneself is to endeavour to develop a coherent whole, a system, even if it is not a strictly complete one.
Arthur Schopenhauer • The Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)
“There’s a vast underground network for goodness at work in this world — a web of people who’ve put reading at the center of their lives because they know from experience that reading makes them more expensive, generous people…”
~ George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain https://t.co/Fp3Q46OjxH