Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.
Louis L'AmourOften I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I kept that kind of record, I read twenty-five books while waiting for people. In offices, applying for jobs, waiting to see a dentist, waiting in a restaurant for friends, many such places. I read on buses, trains, and plains. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long?
Louis L'AmourBooks are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.
Louis L'AmourStichwörter: books civilization hope
Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere, and what had happened in the past. To view a period in isolation is to miss whatever message it has to offer.
Louis L'AmourStichwörter: history isolation study message comparison
A journey is time suspended.
Louis L'AmourOur world is made up of a myriad of microcosms, of tiny worlds, each with its own habitues, every one known to the others.
Louis L'AmourStichwörter: world microcosm macrocosm
Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the trees.
Louis L'AmourStichwörter: perspective distance seeing
The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.
Louis L'AmourStichwörter: art writing people understanding sculpture painting
Someone has said that culture is what remains with you after you have forgotten all you have read, and I believe there is much truth in that.
Louis L'AmourStichwörter: culture
Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.
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