Friday 25 November 2022

Book Quotes of the Week

  

"We learn from history that we do not learn from history." Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Unfortunately, my compatriot is so right here.

"It's a great blessing if one can lose all sense of time, all worries, if only for a short time, in a book." Nell Last

Where would we be without books?

"People tell boring lies about politics, God, and love. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?", Gabrielle Zevin,
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

And the answer, I don't read, says just as much about a person.

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8 comments:

  1. That Hegel quote is so true! Sadly. When will we ever learn?

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    1. You are absolutely right, Lark. I doubt we ever will. We will kill our planet before everyone understands what is really going on.

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  2. Hegel was a *smart* cookie. One of my fave sayings.

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    1. He was very smart indeed, Kitten, and, unfortunately, nothing has changed since he made that quote.

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  3. I love the Hegel quote, and it is so true.

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    1. Yup, you are right, Lisbeth. He as a great philosopher who saw the world as it was and still is.

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  4. I love the Nell Last quote. It really is a blessing to be able to escape from real life sometimes and just be entertained. It helps me deal with reality a little better :)

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  5. Exaclty, Susan. And I don't think I'd still be here if it weren't for books. There were some dark times in my life that I wouldn't have survived without them.

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