Hosea Ballou Quotes

Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.

I do think that books are invaluable as a reservoir of what we call the human space. And this is why I think that, even if they're threatened, the work that they do has an incalculable merit.

Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips.

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

The written word is everything.

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

A book is a book is a book.

What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

Books are humanity in print.

A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great transformation in the way we think about the world, our history, our logic, mathematics, you name it. I think we would be greatly diminished as a people and as a culture if the book became obsolete.