Definition of Contents

Contents Quotations

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
Mark Twain

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Carl Jung

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
Meister Eckhart

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Pound

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Pound

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
Vernon Howard

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.
Johan Huizinga

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
William Osler