Shmuel Niger quotes

“A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.”
-- Shmuel Niger

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“The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.”

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

“Information is not knowledge.”

“It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.”

“I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.”

“A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.”

“It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching 'Coronation Street.'”

“You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope”

“You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself”

“I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.”

Source : Christopher Love (2012). “The Last Words and Letters of Christopher Love: With A Clear Vindication of His Principles and Practices”, p.125, Puritan Publications