Petrarch's Melancholy
"S. Augustine. : You are the victim of a terrible plague of the soul — melancholy ; which the moderns call accidie..."
InLibroVeritas
- 16 mai 2021
- 5 Min
Emil Cioran : A Portrait of Civilized Man
"Civilization, our drug, has so poisoned us that our dependence on it is an addiction, a mixture of ecstasy and curse."
InLibroVeritas
- 8 mai 2021
- 5 Min
"The Solitude of Absorption", by W. R. Alger
"In fact, for solid happiness and peace, there are none more favored than those blessed with a master-passion and a monopolizing work."
InLibroVeritas
- 5 mai 2021
- 8 Min
Stefan Zweig : "The Monotonization of the World" (1925)
"The same book in the hand, the same pen between the fingers, the same conversation on the lips, and the same automobile instead of feet."
InLibroVeritas
- 2 mai 2021
- 6 Min
Karl Jaspers : The Philosophical Life
"Only transcendence can make this questionable life good, the world beautiful, and existence itself a fulfilment."
InLibroVeritas
- 1 mai 2021
- 5 Min
Lewis Mumford : The Modern Metropolis
"Living thus, year in and year out, .. remote from the nature that is outside them, and no less remote from the nature that is within."
InLibroVeritas
- 30 avr. 2021
- 7 Min
Chris Hedges : The Illusion of Happiness
"Transformational Positivity, he says, is the future of organizational change. Optimism can and must become a permanent state of mind."
InLibroVeritas
- 10 avr. 2021
- 3 Min
Victor Hugo : Prometheus and Hamlet
"Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is interior."
InLibroVeritas
- 7 avr. 2021
- 6 Min
Alone on the High Seas of the Soul (by James Hollis)
"When we are not alone when we are on our own, then we have achieved solitude."
InLibroVeritas
- 6 avr. 2021
- 4 Min
James Hollis : The experience of "desuetude"
"When we are depressed we may say we are dispirited; we have lost the energy for the journey..."
InLibroVeritas
- 1 avr. 2021
- 5 Min
The benefits of reading, by Jacques Barzun
"Reading can easily be nothing more than a way to kill time; but if it is calculated and intense, it is a steady extension of one's life."
InLibroVeritas
- 31 mars 2021
- 6 Min
Rollo May : Understanding and coping with anxiety
"Anxiety is inescapable, anxiety is a part of all our lives. Anxiety is the source of all creativity."
InLibroVeritas
- 30 mars 2021
- 5 Min
Giordano Bruno and the Virtues of the Zodiac
"May the Dragon of Envy be far from us, and the Swan of Imprudence, the Cassiopeia of Vanity, the Andromeda of Laziness..."
InLibroVeritas
- 29 mars 2021
- 4 Min
"The voice of entertainment", by Neil Postman
"What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one."
InLibroVeritas
- 13 mars 2021
- 5 Min
Marie Louise Von Franz : Alchemy and Individuation
"The same processes the alchemists employed in contemplation of the transmutation of metals can be used to bring union to the self."
InLibroVeritas
- 13 mars 2021
- 7 Min
"Gift from the Sea", by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach, waiting for a gift from the sea."
InLibroVeritas
- 1 mars 2021
- 6 Min
The Solitude of Chopin
"He was a tone-poet. He seemed to live upon music, the moody food of imagination."
InLibroVeritas
- 23 févr. 2021
- 6 Min
John Keats : Endymion or The Quest for Beauty
"The shepherd prince's pursuit stands for the human heart's pursuit of Beauty, or Truth, Happiness, Love, Light."
InLibroVeritas
- 20 févr. 2021
- 2 Min
The Mysteries of Hieronymus Bosch
[Essays and documentaries on Hieronymus Bosch's work]
InLibroVeritas
- 15 févr. 2021
- 4 Min
To Have or to Be ? : Reactions to a flower
"For Goethe the flower is so much alive that it speaks and warns him; and he solves the problem differently from either Tennyson or Basho."
InLibroVeritas
- 6 févr. 2021
- 4 Min
Shakespeare's The Tempest: A Jungian Interpretation
"The Tempest investigates marriage, love, culture. It is symbolic of man’s rational higher instincts versus his animal natural tendencies."
InLibroVeritas
- 23 janv. 2021
- 4 Min
The Goddess as Cat
Statue of the Goddess Bastet, 26th Dynasty, Egypt "It is in Ancient Egypt where the cat flourished..."
InLibroVeritas
- 17 janv. 2021
- 4 Min
Albrecht Dürer's Melencolia: The "Gateway to Heaven"
[Essay] "The Dürer coat-of-arms is both an ideogram for “Gateway in Heaven” and a rebus for “I engrave the gateway”..."
InLibroVeritas
- 16 janv. 2021
- 7 Min
The Dinner Parties of Immanuel Kant
"Up to this period it had been his custom to dine at a table d'hôte. But he now began to keep house himself..."
