“Any artist should be grateful for a naïve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.”— Saul Bellow, Foreword to The Closing of the American Mind (1987)Share
“All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature.”— Saul BellowShare
“Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.”— Saul BellowShare
“Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.”— Saul BellowShare
“Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of the gospel virtues, therein lie the springs of great thoughts…”— Louis PasteurShare
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”— EpictetusShare
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”— AristotleShare
