Philip Kitcher Quotes

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Regardless of the strength of the government's interest [in protecting children,] the level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox.

Books have shown me horror and beauty.

I think my passion is skincare because I've had so many different skin problems that I'm just fascinated by it. I find myself always reading about it.

I was shocked that I knew so little about Alan Turing. Then I started to read about him, and I got a little obsessed.

Beauty breeds beauty; truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.

It's better to like beautiful girls than to be gay.

There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.

It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious of that fact, and being conscious of it should recognize the importance of living artistically, aesthetically, and creatively, as creative creatures of the Creator. If we have been created in the image of an Artist, then we should look for expressions of artistry, and be sensitive to beauty, responsive to what has been created for us

conclude, what Thomas Mann really wanted was a limited physical relationship with beautiful young men: the opportunity to gaze at them, an occasional touch, a restrained kiss. That isn't a surrogate for what he'd like to have if he were somehow free from social constraints. It's what the young Platen wanted, it's what he wanted - and it's what his Aschenbach wants.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed with overcrowded yet immaculate shelving. It was barely possible to see paintwork. There were all different styles and sizes of lettering on the spines of the black, the red, the gray, the every-colored books. It was one of the most beautiful things Liesel Meminger had ever seen. With wonder, she smiled. That such a room existed!

Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new beauties at every interview, and would stay long in the presence of those choice companions. As with friends, he may dispense with a wide acquaintance. Few and choice. The richest minds need not large libraries.