Rene Descartes Book Quotations

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.