The book of the world, so richly studied by autodidacts, is being closed by the learned, who are raising walls of opinions to shut the world out.


p. 15 - Introduction to The Closing of the American Mind (1988)

Saul Bellow Quotes

The book of the world, so richly studied by autodidacts, is being closed by the learned, who are raising walls of opinions to shut the world out.

The book of the world, so richly studied by autodidacts, is being closed by the learned, who are raising walls of opinions to shut the world out.

The book of the world, so richly studied by autodidacts, is being closed by the learned, who are raising walls of opinions to shut the world out.

The book of the world, so richly studied by autodidacts, is being closed by the learned, who are raising walls of opinions to shut the world out.