Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.
I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.
Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.
Jarrell was not so much a father. . . as an affectionate encyclopedia.
The Encyclopedia - the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment.
Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.
I've learned an encyclopedia version of life from Oprah Winfrey.
A pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does.
I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.
Who knew Lenny was an encyclopedia for useless information?
Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S.
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.
I like to think of The Falls as my own personal encyclopedia Greenaway-ensis.
I barely trust established sources of information. I have a hard time finding [Wikipedia], an encyclopedia that anyone can alter, to be a safe way to learn about anything except how many idiots think their opinions are a suitable substitute for facts.
Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.
God is not an encyclopedia whose task it is to satisfy our curiosity.
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
The information that was contained in a cathedral was based upon a common culture - a common Christian culture - and the elements were chosen for a common symbolic meaning. Someone who knew everything that was represented in a cathedral had a sort of encyclopedia - you can indeed call it that - but it was a selective encyclopedia, like encyclopedias back when they were books and the people writing them were supposed to be specialists in their field. I think today the problem is that people don't know how to choose between different kinds of information.