Virginia WoolfThinkers

Belief is difficult to alter. It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Belief is tied inextricably to a missionary impulse. No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes.

Belief is run through with egotism. Nothing so cuts at the root of one's happiness and fills one with rage as the sense that another rates low what one prizes high.

Belief is only really possible vis-a-vis those things that one cannot see.

A Book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built into arcades or domes.

The Book is a thing which few people ask of what they can give us. Instead we approach them with our own preconceptions and use them to enforce our own prejudices.

The Book is the mirror of the soul.

Clothing is but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.

Clothing wears us, and not we, it.

Clothing has far more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.