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."
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InLibroVeritas
- 29 juil. 2022
- 4 Min
Aldous Huxley : "Breughel’s Calvary"
"Of all that I have ever seen this Calvary of Breughel’s is the most suggestive and, dramatically, the most appalling."
InLibroVeritas
- 29 juil. 2022
- 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
- 26 juil. 2022
- 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
- 27 déc. 2021
- 3 Min
"New-Fashioned Christmas", by Aldous Huxley
"The name is still the same; but the thing is almost unrecognizably different from what Charles Dickens meant by ‘Christmas'."
InLibroVeritas
- 18 déc. 2021
- 6 Min
Aldous Huxley : Retour au meilleur des mondes
"Dans le monde où nous vivons, d'immenses forces tendent vers l'établissement d'un pouvoir centralisé et d'une société enrégimentée."
InLibroVeritas
- 20 nov. 2021
- 9 Min
Aldous Huxley : Religion and Temperament
"To the three physical components Sheldon gives the names of endomorphy, mesomorphy and ectomorphy."
InLibroVeritas
- 16 sept. 2021
- 3 Min
Aldous Huxley : "Time and the Machine"
"The time of which we have knowledge is artificial, machine-made time."
InLibroVeritas
- 14 nov. 2022
Citations du moment
"La mélancolie est d’autant plus pure que l’amour l’enveloppe et l’alimente. De leur association naît une palpitation agréable et suave, une grâce de la solitude, un pressentiment voluptueux de l’éternité."
— Cioran, Le livre des leurres, 1936
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