Famous quotes containing the words world, fact and/or book:
“The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.”
—F.H. (Francis Herbert)
“The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)