“I cannot live without books.”
Letter to John Adams (10 June 1815)
1810s
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Source: Reason and Hope: Selections from the Jewish Writings of Hermann Cohen (1971), p. 5
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The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“You cannot open a book without learning something.”
“One cannot review a bad book without showing off.”
"Reading", p. 11
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
Source: "Die Menschen können nicht ohne Hoffnung leben" (one of his last interviews), Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (February 11, 2002)
Part i, canto ii.
Lucile (1860)
Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)