The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

Quote by Edmund Wilson

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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

No two persons ever read the same book.

No two persons ever read the same book.

No two people read the same book.

No two people read the same book.

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it...

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it...

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on...

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on...

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row...

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row...

No two persons ever read the same book.

No two persons ever read the same book.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single...

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single...

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch...

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch...

Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the...

Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the...

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the...

His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the...

My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of...

My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of...

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it...

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it...