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“Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.”
Source : S. R. Ranganathan (1950). “Colon Classification”
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“Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.”
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“One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.”
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“A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.”
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“I smoke a brown pipe like the breast of a little negress.”
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“I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all.”
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“However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.”
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“Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.”
