Georges Duhamel: Book

Georges Duhamel was French writer. Explore interesting quotes on book.
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“In books may be found the recipes for manufacture of a steam-engine alongside the recipes for daily living—the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.”

Georges Duhamel

Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 18

“The book is one of the springs of creative individualism, that individualism which, in these uncertain times, remains the guardian angel of human society. For five hundred years the book has been, for the solitary mind, an incomparable instrument of uplift and liberation.”

Georges Duhamel

Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. vii

“What a teacher imparts by word of mouth is nothing in comparison with what he teaches us to get for ourselves from books.”

Georges Duhamel

Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 43

“A book exhales a subtle odor of spirituality throughout the place it adorns.”

Georges Duhamel

Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 19

“Books are the friends of solitude. They develop individuality and freedom. In solitary reading a man who is seeking himself has some chance of finding himself.”

Georges Duhamel

Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 42

“Radio, on the other hand, is now the chief agent of imperialism. It does not purify the spirit of man, does not, like the book, bring him back to the sanctuary of solitude, but throws him to the lions, subtly preparing his mind for the blood and chains of public sacrifice.”

Georges Duhamel

Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 42