This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
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Editor: Jay AllisonEditor: Dan Gediman
Foreword: Studs Terkel
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-08-21
ISBN: 0805086587
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
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- ISBN13: 9780805086584
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Book Reviews of This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
Book Review: A thing of beauty
Summary: 5 Stars
Because I can't really comment on the usual things one does in a book review....plot, characterization, writing style, thematic elements... I will simply summarize the quotes from this amazing book that touched me the most.
Novelist Isabel Allende: "Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Or having stories if I don't tell them to others? Or having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and the divine."
Composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein: "I believe that she (America) is at a critical point in this moment and that she needs us to believe more strongly than ever before in her and in one another, in our ability to grow and change, in our mutual dignity, in our democratic method. We must encourage thought, free and creative. We must respect privacy. We must observe taste by not exploiting our sorrows, successes, or passions."
Also - "...one human being who meets with injustice can render invalid the entire system which has dispensed it."
Elizabeth Deutsch Earle (from 1950): "Johnathan Edwards, a Puritan minister, resolved never to do anything out of revenge. I am a modern, a member of a church far removed from Puritanism, yet I have accepted this resolution. Since revenge and retaliation seem to have been accepted by nations today, I sometimes have difficulty reconciling my moral convictions with the tangled world being handed down to us by adults."
Also - "If I were to discover that there is no afterlife, my motive for moral living would not be destroyed. I have enough of the philosopher in me to love righteousness for its own sake."
Law professor Michael Mullane: "The law is wonderfully strong and terribly fragile. In times of crisis and threat, there is a temptation to stop believing in the rule of law - a temptation to think that it weakens rather than protects us...."Maybe we do need to sacrifice personal liberties to be safe, but then I remember that generations of Americans bled and died to create and protect the rule of law, and I wonder: If we ignore it now, how will we ever get it back?"
English historian Arnold Toynbee: "To imagine that one's own church, civilization, nation or family is the chosen people is, I believe, as wrong as it would be for me to imagine that I myself am God. I agree with Symmachus, the pagan philosopher who put the case for toleration to a victorious Christian church, and I will end by quoting his words: The universe is too great a mystery for there to be only one single approach to it."
This book, these essays are such amazing pieces of humanity. I was the most impressed by people whose names I did not know, people who had not had practice writing or giving speeches or being in the public eye. It was the cabdriver, the teacher, the sixteen year olds whose view of the world was most enlightening. And so it should be in everything.
After reading this book, I of course started to think about what I would write. I believe so many things...but which belief is the defining one? Which belief could I sum up in under 500 words? Which belief would I feel comfortable telling others about?
"This I Believe" is a wonderful collection of words and thoughts and dreams. Almost every essay contained an inspirational memory or thought that improved my view of humanity. That changed my idea of a person whose name I knew well.
But I must finish this review with a quote from an essay that didn't change me at all - and that certainly didn't surprise me at all, given my impressions of the writer. "I believe that the world is inherently a very dangerous place and that things that are now very good can go bad very quickly."
- Newt Gingrich.
Summary of This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
"A welcome change from the sloganeering, political mudslinging and products of spin doctors."--The Philadelphia Inquirer
Featuring many renowned contributors--including Isabel Allende, Colin Powell, Gloria Steinem, William F. Buckley Jr., Penn Jillette, Bill Gates, and John Updike--the collection also contains essays by a Brooklyn lawyer; a part-time hospital clerk in Rehoboth, Massachusetts; a woman who sells yellow pages advertising in Fort Worth, Texas; and a man who serves on Rhode Island's parole board.
The result is a stirring and provocative trip inside the minds and hearts of a diverse group of people whose beliefs--and the incredibly varied ways in which they choose to express them--reveal the American spirit at its best.
Based on the NPR series of the same name, This I Believe features eighty Americans--from the famous to the unknown--completing the thought that the book's title begins. Each piece compels readers to rethink not only how they have arrived at their own personal beliefs but also the extent to which they share them with others.
Featuring many renowned contributors--including Isabel Allende, Colin Powell, Gloria Steinem, William F. Buckley Jr., Penn Jillette, Bill Gates, and John Updike--the collection also contains essays by a Brooklyn lawyer; a part-time hospital clerk in Rehoboth, Massachusetts; a woman who sells yellow pages advertising in Fort Worth, Texas; and a man who serves on Rhode Island's parole board.
The result is a stirring and provocative trip inside the minds and hearts of a diverse group of people whose beliefs--and the incredibly varied ways in which they choose to express them--reveal the American spirit at its best.
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