The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one?s one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life.
Im spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years. Ronald Reagan during the opening ceremonies for the library that will house his white house papers.
If I were not Alexander I would be Diogenes.
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one?s one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life.
Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself but most of them were written for him.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Revolutions are not made; they come.
Im spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years. Ronald Reagan during the opening ceremonies for the library that will house his white house papers.