Ronald D. Laing : "Ontological insecurity"
"ESTRAGON: We always find something, eh, Didi, to give us the impression that we exist ?"
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InLibroVeritas
- 6 août 2021
- 4 Min
"The Huxleyan Warning", by Neil Postman
"In the Huxleyan prophecy, Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours."
InLibroVeritas
- 3 août 2021
- 9 Min
C.S. Lewis : "The Abolition of Man"
"The man-moulders of the new age will be armed with the powers of an omnicompetent state and an irresistible scientific technique."
InLibroVeritas
- 1 août 2021
- 6 Min
"What is television ?", by Neil Postman
"What is television ? What kinds of conversations does it permit ? What are the intellectual tendencies it encourages ?"
InLibroVeritas
- 29 juil. 2021
- 17 Min
Neil Postman : Informing Ourselves to Death
"We are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it."
InLibroVeritas
- 22 juil. 2021
- 6 Min
Christopher Lasch : "Consommation et culture de masse"
"L’idée selon laquelle « vous pouvez être ce que vous voulez » .. signifie désormais que l’on peut changer d’identité comme de chemise."
InLibroVeritas
- 21 juil. 2021
- 4 Min
"Meditation on Meditation", by H.L. Mencken
"The capacity for discerning the essential truth, in fact, is as rare among men as it is common among crows, bullfrogs and mackerel."
InLibroVeritas
- 20 juil. 2021
- 7 Min
Mircea Eliade : "Sleep and Death"
"In Greek mythology, Sleep and Death, Hypnos and Thanatos, are twin brothers."
InLibroVeritas
- 18 juil. 2021
- 5 Min
"The Plight of the Individual in Modern Society", by Carl Jung
"The individual is increasingly deprived of the moral decision as to how he should live his own life..."
InLibroVeritas
- 2 juil. 2021
- 4 Min
"Man — Wolf or Sheep ?", by Erich Fromm
"There are many who believe that humans are sheep; there are others who believe that humans are wolves."
InLibroVeritas
- 25 juin 2021
- 11 Min
Lewis Mumford : Diagnosis of our times
"We have reached a point in history where man has become his own most dangerous enemy."
InLibroVeritas
- 23 juin 2021
- 6 Min
Kafka's "Prison Cell" (by Pietro Citati)
"Thus, little by little, the Bachelor built his own prison. He suffered from it. He felt he was entirely imprisoned within himself..."
InLibroVeritas
- 12 juin 2021
- 4 Min
Hermann Hesse : The Path of Solitude
"Zarathustra has gone a long way on the path of solitude. He has attended the school of suffering."
InLibroVeritas
- 12 juin 2021
- 6 Min
Hermann Hesse : "Action and Suffering"
“What ought we to do ?” you ask me. You ask me time and time again, and yourselves as well. “Doing” — action — is so important to you..."
InLibroVeritas
- 9 juin 2021
- 9 Min
"Nietzsche, Don Juan of the Intellectual World", by Stefan Zweig
"Nietzsche, therefore, never set up house with knowledge so as to economise and preserve; he built no spiritual home over his head."
InLibroVeritas
- 8 juin 2021
- 7 Min
The Poet and The Magic of Orpheus
"The achievement of this Orphic poetry is to create the peace, trust, and sensitivity in which man can listen to this music of nature..."
InLibroVeritas
- 7 juin 2021
- 7 Min
Henry Miller : Rimbaud and Van Gogh
"Of that band of martyrs, .. the one whose tragedy most closely approaches Rimbaud's is Van Gogh."
InLibroVeritas
- 25 mai 2021
- 5 Min
Ralph Waldo Emerson : Man and Nature
"In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child."
InLibroVeritas
- 23 mai 2021
- 12 Min
Stefan Zweig : Nietzsche's Seventh Solitude
"A void surrounded him, an awe-inspiring silence; no hermit or anchorite in the desert was ever more abandoned."
InLibroVeritas
- 20 mai 2021
- 5 Min
"The Art of Solitude", by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
« “No man is an island,” said John Donne. I feel we are all islands — in a common sea. »
InLibroVeritas
- 17 mai 2021
- 4 Min
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
- 14 nov. 2022
