Ryan Watkins

“A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must be completed by the work of criticism, the work of judging. The undemanding reader fails to satisfy this requirement, probably even more than he fails to analyze and interpret. He not only makes no effort to understand; he also dismisses a book simply by putting it aside and forgetting it. Worse than faintly praising it, he damns it by giving it no critical consideration whatever.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy