Open a book and take a journey......
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible.
They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print."
~Arthur Schopenhauer
(1788-1860) German philosopher)
They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print."
~Arthur Schopenhauer
(1788-1860) German philosopher)
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles.
But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for
thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head,
directly to you.
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew
each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that
humans are capable of working magic.” ~ Carl Sagan
But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for
thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head,
directly to you.
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew
each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that
humans are capable of working magic.” ~ Carl Sagan