“Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and—since there is no other metaphor—also the soul.”
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Christopher Hitchens305
British American author and journalist 1949–2011Related quotes
“The message of Scripture is that God wants us to connect both with Him and also with each other.”
John Townsend (1952) Canadian clinical psychologist and author
Where Is God (2009, Thomas Nelson publishers)
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Source: 1910s, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays http://archive.org/stream/mysticism00russuoft/mysticism00russuoft_djvu.txt (1918), Ch. 4: The Study of Mathematics
Edward Norris Kirk (1802–1874) American Christian missionary, pastor, teacher, evangelist and writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 38.
“Street scriptures, for lost souls in the crossroads..”
Nas (1973) American rapper, record producer and entrepreneur
"Nas Is Like"
On Albums, I Am... (1999)
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher
Source: Equisse d'une Théorie de la Pratique (1977), p. 91
Kurt Vonnegut book Palm Sunday
"Self-Interview", originally appeared in The Paris Review no. 69 (1977)
Palm Sunday (1981)
“Literature is the Thought of thinking Souls.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1830s, Sir Walter Scott (1838)