#contents

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#bible #british #british museum #collection #complete

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#also #appropriation #books #buy #buying

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be. ↗

— Mel Torme

#albums #artist #been #came #contents

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#contents #deep #least #lived #man

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. ↗

— Mark Twain

#changes #christian #contents #medical #practice

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#dregs #malcontents #nation #orderly #peaceful

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence. ↗

— Vernon Howard

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A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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