Creative Quotations from . . .
Thomas De Quincey
(1785-1859) born on Aug 15
English "essayist, critic". "He is best known for his "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.""
 
   
F
Books, we are told, propose to instruct" or to amuse." Indeed! . . . The true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure," but power.""

R
"Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone."
A
"There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach; the function of the second is -- to move."
N
Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.
K
The public is a bad guesser.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "Letters to a Young Man.""
R: "In "Instant Quotation Dictionary," by Donald O. Bolander, 1979."
A: "In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
N: "Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts.""
K: "In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."



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