#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 trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#angola #beds #been #contents #deciding

Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate. ↗

— Louis XIV

#create #every #every time #hundred #i

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#correlate #human #human mind #inability #merciful

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#attitude #becomes #contents #demand #entailed

The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels. ↗

— Kathleen Kenyon

#behind #clear #contents #derived #earlier

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents. ↗

— Allan Sherman

#extremely #family #great #high #history