Henry David Thoreau, by R. L. Stevenson
[Essay] "Thoreau's faculties were of a piece with his moral shyness; for they were all delicacies."
InLibroVeritas
- 25 oct. 2020
- 16 Min
Nietzsche and Kierkegaard: Ways of Life
(Essay] "Those who have read both Kierkegaard and Nietzsche are often struck by the resemblance not only between many of their ideas"
InLibroVeritas
- 21 oct. 2020
- 7 Min
The Wisdom of Anton Chekhov
[Essay] "Chekhov possessed a practical wisdom that enabled him to care for those he loved and to help others."
InLibroVeritas
- 21 oct. 2020
- 4 Min
Schopenhauer and Indian Philosophy
[Essay] "Schopenhauer was one of the few modern philosophers who made a serious study of Upanishads and Buddhist philosophy..."
InLibroVeritas
- 21 oct. 2020
- 6 Min
Transforming sorrow into beauty, truth and art
(Essay] "Artistic creativity is the vehicle for the transformation of the sorrows of the world into beauty, truth and art."
InLibroVeritas
- 20 oct. 2020
- 6 Min
John Keats : The Alchemy of Art
[Essay] "The salvation of the Genius of Poetry in Keats was, as I see it, the creation of his creative self."
InLibroVeritas
- 20 oct. 2020
- 6 Min
Karl Jaspers: Melancholy and Creativity
[Essay] "Jaspers poses the ancient and Renaissance question of the relationship between diseased psyche and creativity."
InLibroVeritas
- 20 oct. 2020
- 6 Min
Homer’s Odyssey as Spiritual Quest
[Essay] "The Odyssey could be heard as a rousing adventure story on one level and as a timeless metaphor for a spiritual quest on another."
InLibroVeritas
- 19 oct. 2020
- 1 Min
Freud’s Debt to Nietzsche and Schopenhauer
[Article] "The parallels between Freud’s concepts and those of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche are too specific to be coincidental. (...)"
InLibroVeritas
- 18 oct. 2020
- 5 Min
Anton Chekhov: An Artist of Life
"Tolstoy called Chekhov, and rightly so, "an artist of life". (...)"
InLibroVeritas
- 18 oct. 2020
- 6 Min
Hamlet : A Case of Madness ?
"Hamlet's mind," the critic says, "is constantly occupied with the world within, and abstracted from the world without."
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
