Books
Quotes - When writers die they become books
“Reading
list (1972 edition)
1.
Homer – Iliad, Odyssey
2.
The Old Testament
3.
Aeschylus – Tragedies
4.
Sophocles – Tragedies
5.
Herodotus – Histories
6.
Euripides – Tragedies
7.
Thucydides – History of the Peloponnesian War
8. Hippocrates
– Medical Writings
9.
Aristophanes – Comedies
10.
Plato – Dialogues
11.
Aristotle – Works
12.
Epicurus – Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus
13.
Euclid – Elements
14.
Archimedes – Works
15.
Apollonius of Perga – Conic Sections
16.
Cicero – Works
17.
Lucretius – On the Nature of Things
18.
Virgil – Works
19.
Horace – Works
20.
Livy – History of Rome
21.
Ovid – Works
22.
Plutarch – Parallel Lives; Moralia
23.
Tacitus – Histories; Annals; Agricola Germania
24.
Nicomachus of Gerasa – Introduction to Arithmetic
25.
Epictetus – Discourses; Encheiridion
26.
Ptolemy – Almagest
27.
Lucian – Works
28.
Marcus Aurelius – Meditations
29.
Galen – On the Natural Faculties
30.
The New Testament
31.
Plotinus – The Enneads
32.
St. Augustine – On the Teacher; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine
33.
The Song of Roland
34.
The Nibelungenlied
35.
The Saga of Burnt Njál
36.
St. Thomas Aquinas – Summa Theologica
37.
Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy;The New Life; On Monarchy
38.
Geoffrey Chaucer – Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales
39.
Leonardo da Vinci – Notebooks
40.
Niccolò Machiavelli – The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
41.
Desiderius Erasmus – The Praise of Folly
42.
Nicolaus Copernicus – On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
43.
Thomas More – Utopia
44.
Martin Luther – Table Talk; Three Treatises
45.
François Rabelais – Gargantua and Pantagruel
46.
John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion
47.
Michel de Montaigne – Essays
48. William
Gilbert – On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
49.
Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote
50.
Edmund Spenser – Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene
51.
Francis Bacon – Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, New Atlantis
52.
William Shakespeare – Poetry and Plays
53.
Galileo Galilei – Starry Messenger; Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
54.
Johannes Kepler – Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Concerning the Harmonies of
the World
55.
William Harvey – On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the
Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals
56.
Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan
57.
René Descartes – Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method;
Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy
58.
John Milton – Works
59.
Molière – Comedies
60.
Blaise Pascal – The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises
61.
Christiaan Huygens – Treatise on Light
62.
Benedict de Spinoza – Ethics
63.
John Locke – Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; Essay
Concerning Human Understanding;Thoughts Concerning Education
64.
Jean Baptiste Racine – Tragedies
65.
Isaac Newton – Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics
66.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning
Human Understanding;Monadology
67.
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
68.
Jonathan Swift – A Tale of a Tub; Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A
Modest Proposal
69.
William Congreve – The Way of the World
70.
George Berkeley – Principles of Human Knowledge
71.
Alexander Pope – Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man
72.
Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu – Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws
73.
Voltaire – Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary
74.
Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones
75. Samuel
Johnson – The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the
Poets”
―
Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“As
always, one of her books was next to her.”
―
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“Wisdom....
comes not from age, but from education and learning.”
―
Anton Chekhov
“Someone
once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get
the same thing spending an hour with you.”
― E.
Lockhart, We Were Liars
“The
phrase 'see attached bibliography' is the single sexiest thing you have ever
written to me.”
―
Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
“In
omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.
(Everywhere
I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)”
―
Thomas a Kempis
“I
was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from
dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”
―
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“It's
a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing,
really.”
―
Ilona Andrews, Magic Bites
“I
like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words,
beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that
there is something to hold back the shadows.”
―
Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber
“All
I have learned, I learned from books.”
―
Abraham Lincoln
“When
writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an
incarnation."
[As
attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24,
1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]”
―
Jorge Luis Borges
“When
I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out
between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages
have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through
a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.”
―
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“The
world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first
class and literature goes as freight.”
―
Gabriel García Márquez
