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“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing;”
― The Gutenberg Galaxy
― The Gutenberg Galaxy
“We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.”
― Pensees
― Pensees
“they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.”
― The Gutenberg Galaxy
― The Gutenberg Galaxy
“I smelled of gin. Not just casually, as if I had taken four or five drinks of a winter morning to get out of bed on, but as if the Pacific Ocean was pure gin and I had nosedived off the boat deck. The gin was in my hair and eyebrows, on my chin and under my chin. It was on my shirt. I smelled like dead toads.”
― The Lady in the Lake
― The Lady in the Lake
Benjamin DeLong’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Benjamin DeLong’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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