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“The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the second century, and the latter a little later; but they contain materials much older than themselves...In them, as in the teachings of Zoroaster, everything that exists emanates from a source of infinite Light.”

Littles Book Light Teaching Century Materials Source Infinite Jew Doctrine Former Latter Emanate

Author:Albert Pike

“My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice; democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist.”

Ifs May Book Shows Light Voice Democratic Corruption Accountability Mechanism Brutality Highlights Voiceless Rectification

Author:Vikas Swarup

“I’m imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles - we have them in our homes and cherish their light, but don’t light our homes with them. Readers of Lincoln’s era would likely be surprised at how well-lit our homes are, and I think it’s likely that we will be surprised at how well-read future book readers will be.”

Thinking Wells Book Home Light Reader Paper Eras Evolve Cherish Candle Lit Book Readers Paper Books

Author:Steve Leveen

“Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.”

Writing Book Whole Light Running Earth Hours Written Mankind Century Pages Understood Presses Spread Newspapers Journalism Extremity

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“You have read very good books, I am sure; there is an excellent book however, that never grows old; it is the one that God has written on every plant, on every grain of sand, in yourself; it is the book of Divine love. Give, therefore, your preference to that beautiful book and add to it a few pages of admiration and gratefulness. Read and understand all other books in the light of this one.”

“Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth, which truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.”

Looks Book Light Pain Blind Delight Vain Eyesight

Book:Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series

Source: Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series

“When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.”

Writing Firsts Book Stories Light Work Morning Cold Warm Every Morning Daily Work

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“I tend to pull nuggets out of many books - rather than having a handful of books that serve as guiding lights.”

Book Light Handful Nuggets Guiding Light

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“About the book of Job: If it were today, God might be asking "How does DNA carry traits? How are instincts passed on in animals? How does consciousness arise in the human body and brain, and what is consciousness? What is dark matter? How did the big bang happen? Why does the speed of light appear to be absolute? Is cold fusion possible? How do you program a TV remote control?”

“The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things" - as Swift most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light."”

Giving Two Book Character Light Culture Battle Perfection Notion Perceive Greek Sweetness Harmonious

Author:Matthew Arnold

“When you're working with film, you can only shoot one angle at a time, and then everything has to stop, and you re-light it and shoot everything else from the opposite side, so it's really important that you stick exactly to what's written. But with the multi-camera digital setup, you're getting both sides of the scene at the same time, so it gives you that freedom to go off-book.”

Giving Important Book Light Film Sides Written Scene Opposites Cameras Sticks Digital Angle Both Sides Setups

Author:Chris Pratt

“The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn't have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable.”

“It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits.”

Book Whole Light Spirit Easy Difficult Interesting Habit Coffee Tea Pleasant Smoking Excess Stimulus Tobacco Chewing Interesting Book Chewing Tobacco

Author:Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

“When people live in the full light of an open society, paying their taxes, abiding by the rules, that makes not only our country safer and more secure because people are not relegated to living in the shadows and not creating underground economies, it also is better for wages because the fact that people are working on the books in the open means that there's greater demand for labor and you don't have this submarket.”

People Mean Book Country Facts Light Economy Greater Demand Taxes Creating Shadow Labor Our Country Secure Wages Abiding

Author:Martin O'Malley

“I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke with fulsome words of sycophantic insincerity, praising him as the light of the universe (in hopes, no doubt, for a few ducats to support future work); this old practice makes me feel like such an honest and upright man, by comparison, when I put a positive spin, perhaps ever so slightly exaggerated, on a grant proposal.”

“The user of the electric light - or a hammer, or a language, or a book - is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider the message.”

Book Light Language Messages Users Electric Hammers Metamorphosis Interfaces Electric Light

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.”

Men Years Book Light Spirit Found Response Nourishment Poorest Cottages Interpreting

Book:Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished

Source: Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished

“Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming white light into the darkness as a landing beam for UFOs, and everywhere neon oracles and twisting screens predict happiness and good fortune, announce singers and comedians and magicians in residence or on their way, and the lights always flash and beckon and call.”

Source: American Gods

“In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It teaches us to see, to feel, to grasp, and to comprehend faith, hope, and charity, far otherwise than mere human reason can; and while evil oppresses us, it teaches how these virtues throw light upon the darkness, and how, after this poor, miserable existence of ours on earth, there is another and an eternal life.”

Source: The Table Talk Or Familiar Discourse of Martin Luther

“If you don't encourage healthy sexual expression in public, you get unhealthy sexual expression in private. If you attempt to suppress sex in books, magazines, movies and even everyday conversation, you aren't helping to make sex more private, just more hidden. You're keeping sex in the dark. What we've tried to do is turn on the lights.”

Ifs Book Helping Light Turns Sex Dark Expression Healthy Conversation Everyday Magazines Turn-on Unhealthy

Author:Hugh Hefner

“I'm really interested with the way light plays on images and one of the artists that really reawakened my interest in comic books was Frank Miller and his treatment of Daredevil, and then Wolverine and, of course, Batman.”

Way Book Play Light Artist Courses Interest Comic Treatment Frank Comic Book Daredevil

Author:James Marsters

“To me the question is always this: if a ray of light came out of the sky and said, "Your next book will never be published - would you still write it?" If the answer is yes, the book is worth writing.”

Ifs Writing Said Stills Book Light Next Answers Sky Rays Rays Of Light

Author:Markus Zusak

“A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.”

Source: Frost and Fire

“There yet remains but one concluding tale, And then this chronicle of mine is ended - Fulfilled, the duty God ordained to me, A sinner. Not without purpose did the Lord, Put me to witness much for many years, And educate me in the love of books. One day some indefatigable monk, Will find my conscientious, unsigned work; Like me, he will light up his ikon-lamp, And, shaking from the scroll the age-old dust, He will transcribe these tales in all their truth.”

Years Book Light Age Purpose Lord Mines Duty One Day Remains Tales Like Me Dust Witness Sinner Educate Fulfilled Lamps Monk Shaking Light Up Chronicles Concluding

Author:Alexander Pushkin

“Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum that makes us hard of hearing. Even the book is becoming an instrument of forgetting. A truly literary work comes into being as its creator's cry of protest against the forgetting that looms over him, over his predecessors and his contemporaries alike, and over his time, and the language he speaks. A literary work is something that defies death.”

Book Hard Light Literature Speak Language Forget Cry Becoming Instruments Creator Hearing Protest Seconds Predecessors New Books Literary Works

Author:Ivan Klíma

“Do you think that your sin is hidden away? Do you think that men will never know it? Well, you should remember that God knows it already. And you should remember, second, that sin continued in will inevitably come to light. Usually it will be exposed in this life. Certainly it will be exposed when you stand before God and God's record books are opened. That which is whispered in a corner shall be shouted from a housetop. God will bring every secret thing to judgment, we are told. What warning to our hearts!”

Thinking Knows Men Should Wells Heart Book Light Remember Sin Secret Records Judgment Corners Gods Will This Life Warning Exposed God Knows

Author:John R. Rice

“There will always be people like me, who believe that to ripple the pages of a printed book is a special experience, one that through the centuries has taken millions from the darkness into the light.”

People Believe Book Light Millions Darkness Taken Special Century Pages Like Me Printed Ripple Printed Books

Author:Quintin Jardine

“I took one glance at her in that hospital bed under the dull light and recognised the look on her face, which I'd seen on donors often enough before. It was like she was willing her eyes to see right inside herself, so she could patrol and marshal all the better the separate areas of pain in her body.”

Looks Book Enough Body Light Eye Pain Faces Language Willing Bed Areas Dull Hospitals Her Eyes Glances Donors

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.”

Knows Kind Book Moments Light Happens Artist Stuff White Building Recognition White Light

Author:Barbara Kruger

“You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.”

Book Light Lying Drink Library Pool

Author:Ray Bradbury

“To pore upon a book, to seek the light of truth.”

Book:The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

“I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.”

Book Light Games Sides Water Born Land Blue Forests Evening Rushing Ridges Evening Light Rushing Water

Book:The Crossing

Source: The Crossing

“Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and musing sages, Lights who beam'd through many ages! Left to your conscious leaves their story, And dared to trust you with their glory; And now their hope of fame achiev'd, Dear volumes! you have not deceived!”

Book Stories Hands Light Eye Age Left Pleasure Objects Please Fame Glory Conscious Dear Brilliant Wit Treasure Golden Rejoice Volume Sage Delicious Deceived Beam Rapture Musings

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“The Book, this Holy Book, on every line, Mark'd with the seal of high divinity, On every leaf bedew'd with drops of love Divine, and with the eternal heraldry And signature of God Almighty stamp'd From first to last; this ray of sacred light, This lamp, from off the everlasting throne, Mercy took down, and in the night of time Stood, casting on the dark her gracious bow; And evermore beseeching men With tears And earnest sighs, to read, believe and live.”

“1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side; but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.”

Mind Book Light Waiting Sides Vision Spring Flow Preserves Endeavor Valleys Sanctuary Reverie Inaccessible Untouchables

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.”

Should Book Light Night Sleep

Book:The works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of those which were formerly printed; and those which he design'd for the press, publish'd out of the author's original copies. With The cutter of Coleman-street ...

Source: The works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of those which were formerly printed; and those which he design'd for the press, publish'd out of the author's original copies. With The cutter of Coleman-street ...

“And I think about my cell at the Pawiak prison. During the first week I felt I would not be able to endure a day without a book, without the circle of light under the parafin lamp in the evening, without a sheet of paper, without you. . . .”

Thinking Firsts Book Light Able Felt Week Paper Prison Endure Circles Evening Cells Sheets Lamps Without You

Author:Tadeusz Borowski

“We live at a time that is notable for the polemical nature of discussions about identity, consciousness, rationality, agency, memory, and feeling. 'New atheists' and reductive materialists conduct gladiatorial debates against defenders of faith and enemies of reductionism. Lots of heat is produced, but, alas, little light is shed. How marvelous it is, then, to see this fine new book by Lenn E. Goodman and Gregory Caramenico. Here is a learned, illuminating, and decidedly non-polemical treatment of the classic questions of soul, mind, and brain-an exemplary work of scholarship.”

“[Book's subtitle:] Designed as a beacon of light to guide women to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but which may be read by members of the sterner sect, without injury to themselves or the book.”

May Book Light Liberty Members Guides Pursuit Injury Pursuit Of Happiness Sects Beacons Life Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness Subtitles Beacons Of Light

Author:Marietta Holley