Book Lust

Famous quotes containing the words book and/or lust:

“What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

“Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals ... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)