Jaime Luciano Balmes
View AuthorThe act of reading is like food; the benefit is not in proportion to what is consumed, but to what is digested.
Jaime Luciano Balmes
View AuthorOne should read a lot, but not many books; this is an excellent rule.
Jaime Luciano Balmes
View AuthorOnly intelligence examines itself.
Jaime Luciano Balmes
View AuthorThe concern for thinking well is not only of interest to philosophers, but also to the simplest of people.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorA beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorThere are several memories within us. The body and the spirit each have their own.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorThe thought is the key to all treasures; the gains of the miser are ours without his worries.
Pío Baroja
View AuthorHistory is always a fantasy without scientific basis, and when an impregnable structure is attempted to be built and a consequence placed upon it, there is a danger that a fact may change and the entire historical framework collapses.
Pío Baroja
View AuthorLiterature cannot reflect all the darkness of life. The main reason is that literature chooses, and life does not.
Bernard M. Baruch
View AuthorMillions of people saw an apple fall, but Newton was the only one who asked why.
Ambrose Bierce
View AuthorThere is nothing new under the sun, but how many old things there are that we do not know.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
View AuthorEternity is one of the rare virtues of literature.