Read Good Books

I walked with Lily to the library to pick up two books I ordered. On my way out I wandered over to the bargain book table and found Original Self by Thomas Moore a hardcover book with woodcuts, for a dollar! When I opened it these quotes jumped off the page.

The way out of the dehumanizing effects of modern capitalism and industrialism is not to change the system but to read good books.
-Thomas Moore

The images that form the raw material of our imagination are most precious substance we have because from them we develop an attitude towards events and eventually a way of life. Education of the soul is largely a matter of creating a treasury of images and skills for dealing with them. It is as important for engineers and MBAs to read Shakespeare, a master image-maker, for this purpose as it is for the physician, the therapist, or the parent. A great deal depends on whether the books we read and the movies we see hone the imagination or make it blunt.
-Thomas Moore

If we brought half the intelligence to the making of souls that we bring to the making of machines, we would be people of character and imagination. We would be sharp and therefore less inclined to kill and cheat each other. We would know where to find the deep pleasures, so we would be less desperate for shallow entertainments and the ephemeral gratifications of gadgets.
-Thomas Moore