Nietzsche and the morality of constraint (by Georg Brandes)
"At the outset the essential element of all morality is, in Nietzsche's view, simply this, that it is a prolonged constraint."
InLibroVeritas
- 5 nov.
- 4 Min
Francis Bacon : Of Truth
"What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer."
InLibroVeritas
- 26 oct.
- 5 Min
R. W. Emerson : Les illusions
"Je trouve les hommes victimes victimes de l’illusion à tous les âges de la vie."
InLibroVeritas
- 23 oct.
- 4 Min
Schiller : On the aesthetic education of man, Letter VIII
"Must philosophy therefore retire from this field, disappointed in its hopes ?"
InLibroVeritas
- 23 oct.
- 3 Min
Schiller : On the aesthetic education of man, Letter V
"Man portrays himself in his deeds, and what a form it is that is depicted in the drama of the present day !"
InLibroVeritas
- 22 oct.
- 8 Min
H. D. Thoreau : Couleurs d’automne, Les feuilles tombées
"Dès le 6 octobre, en général, les feuilles commencent à tomber, en douches successives, après la gelée ou la pluie."
InLibroVeritas
- 8 oct.
- 7 Min
Arthur Schopenhauer : L’Art d’avoir toujours raison
"De là, sur cent personnes, à peine une mérite que l’on débatte avec elle. On peut laisser le reste parler autant qu’ils veulent..."
InLibroVeritas
- 4 oct.
- 6 Min
The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson (by Edna Henry Lee Turpin)
"As a school-boy he was quiet and retiring, reading a great deal, but not paying much attention to his lessons."
InLibroVeritas
- 25 sept.
- 6 Min
John Lubbock : The Love of Nature
"The love of Nature is a great gift, and if it is frozen or crushed out, the character can hardly fail to suffer from the loss."
InLibroVeritas
- 20 sept.
- 5 Min
"Contemplative habit of mind", by Bertrand Russell
"A contemplative habit of mind has advantages ranging from the most trivial to the most profound."
InLibroVeritas
- 15 sept.
- 4 Min
The Value of the Study of Dante (by Elizabeth Harrison)
“Behold then in this little play
A world-wide truth set free !
Easily may a symbol teach
What thy reason cannot reach.”
InLibroVeritas
- 9 sept.
- 5 Min
Clodius Piat : L'homme qui « sait tout »
"Nous en avons assez de l'homme qui « sait tout » ; il est le fléau de la société."
InLibroVeritas
- 8 sept.
- 7 Min
Bertrand Russell : The Pilgrimage of Life
"When joy and pain are overcome, peace and love remain, and Wisdom softly whispers words of rest and calm."
InLibroVeritas
- 31 août
- 3 Min
Marie-Madeleine Davy : L’espace intérieur
"Le voyage intérieur exige la solitude. Personne n’accompagne un tel itinérant ; le voici rigoureusement seul."
InLibroVeritas
- 27 août
- 4 Min
Aldous Huxley : Knowledge and Understanding
"Correct or incorrect, relevant or meaningless, knowledge and pseudo-knowledge are as common as dirt and are therefore taken for granted."
InLibroVeritas
- 26 août
- 4 Min
Albert Einstein : Society and Personality
"Without creative personalities able to think and judge independently, the upward development of society is as unthinkable..."
InLibroVeritas
- 17 août
- 5 Min
Carl Jung : The Meaning of Self-Knowledge
"We are living in what the Greeks called the καιρός – the right time – for a “metamorphosis of the gods” ..."
InLibroVeritas
- 8 août
- 3 Min
Søren Kierkegaard : Le calme de la nuit
"C’est pourquoi je t’aime, ô calme de la solitude, plus que tout ce qui est vaste, parce que tu es infini !"
InLibroVeritas
- 29 juil.
- 11 Min
Aldous Huxley : Work and Leisure
"Prolong the leisure ... and there will have to be more cinemas, more newspapers, more bad fiction, more radios and more cheap automobiles."
InLibroVeritas
- 28 juil.
- 6 Min
Benjamin Franklin : On Conversation
"To please in Conversation is an Art which all People believe they understand and practise, tho’ most are ignorant or deficient in it."
InLibroVeritas
- 26 juil.
- 6 Min
Aldous Huxley : "Accidie"
"Throughout the Middle Ages this demon was known as Acedia, or, in English, Accidie. Monks were still his favourite victims..."
InLibroVeritas
- 14 juin
- 6 Min
William Hazlitt : On Living to One’s Self
"He who lives wisely to himself and to his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat..."
InLibroVeritas
- 6 juin
- 5 Min
Paul Valéry : Discours sur Bergson
"Henri Bergson, grand philosophe, grand écrivain, fut aussi, et devait l’être, un grand ami des hommes."
InLibroVeritas
- 3 juin
- 5 Min
Paul Valéry : La Sensibilité de l'homme moderne
"L’homme moderne s’enivre de dissipation. Abus de vitesse, abus de lumière, abus de toniques, de stupéfiants, d’excitants…"
