Bertrand Russell : The Role of Individuality
"The great men who stand out in history have been partly benefactors of mankind and partly quite the reverse."
InLibroVeritas
- il y a 4 jours
- 7 Min
"Triangular Desire in Cervantes, Flaubert and Stendhal", by René Girard
"Don Quixote, in Cervantes' novel, is a typical example of the victim of triangular desire, but he is far from being the only one."
InLibroVeritas
- il y a 6 jours
- 2 Min
Georges Duhamel : In Defense of Letters
"The book is one of the springs of creative individualism, that individualism which remains the guardian angel of human society."
InLibroVeritas
- 11 mai
- 6 Min
George Orwell : The redeeming feature of poverty
I lived in the Coq d'Or quarter for about a year and a half. One day, in summer, I found that I had just four hundred and fifty francs left.
InLibroVeritas
- 7 mai
- 4 Min
"Books v. Cigarettes", by George Orwell
"I have said enough to show that reading is one of the cheaper recreations: after listening to the radio probably the cheapest."
InLibroVeritas
- 6 mai
- 6 Min
Sigmund Freud : The Purpose of Human Life
"Foremost among the satisfactions we owe to the imagination is the enjoyment of works of art."
InLibroVeritas
- 25 avr.
- 5 Min
Carl Jung : The achievement of personality
"The achievement of personality means nothing less than the optimum development of the whole individual human being."
InLibroVeritas
- 22 avr.
- 4 Min
Jerry Mander : Arguments for the Elimination of Television
"TV addresses people in the midst of the confusion, isolation, and passivity that it has created in their minds."
InLibroVeritas
- 15 avr.
- 7 Min
Bertrand Russell : The Wisdom of Renunciation
"To every man comes, sooner or later, the great renunciation."
InLibroVeritas
- 30 mars
- 4 Min
Carl Jung : The Morality of Society
"It is a notorious fact that the morality of society as a whole is in inverse ratio to its size..."
InLibroVeritas
- 9 mars
- 7 Min
Albert Camus’ speech at the Nobel Banquet (Stockholm, 1957)
"The writer cannot put himself today in the service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it."
InLibroVeritas
- 6 mars
- 4 Min
"The harm that good men do", by Bertrand Russell
"We all know what we mean by a ‘good’ man..."
InLibroVeritas
- 22 févr.
- 6 Min
"Paul Verlaine", by Stefan Zweig
"The works of great artists are silent books of eternal truths."
InLibroVeritas
- 14 févr.
- 7 Min
Alchemy and Introversion
"Introversion accordingly presents two possibilities, either to gain what the mystic work seeks, or to lose oneself."
InLibroVeritas
- 12 févr.
- 4 Min
Sylvia Plath : Loneliness of the Soul
"Now I know what loneliness is, I think."
InLibroVeritas
- 31 janv.
- 4 Min
"The Need to Know and the Fear of Knowing", by Abraham Maslow
"Freud’s greatest discovery is that the great cause of much psychological illness is the fear of knowledge of oneself."
InLibroVeritas
- 28 janv.
- 5 Min
"Alienation as a Disease of Modern Man", by Erich Fromm
"In the nineteenth century, one could say : “God is dead.” In the twentieth, one must say that man is dead."
InLibroVeritas
- 21 janv.
- 4 Min
"A nice cup of tea", by George Orwell
"Here are my own eleven rules, every one of which I regard as golden."
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
- 21 nov. 2021
- 5 Min
David Hume : Delicacy Of Taste And Delicacy Of Passion
"One that has well digested his knowledge both of books and men, has little enjoyment but in the company of a few select companions."
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
- 1 nov. 2021
- 10 Min
Cosmopolitan View of Nietzsche (by Ananda Coomaraswamy)
"The “Will to Power” has nothing to do with tyranny — it is opposed alike to the tyranny of the autocrat and the tyranny of the majority."
InLibroVeritas
- 31 oct. 2021
- 4 Min
Flaubert, A "Literary Monk" (by Emile Faguet)
"His pride, his timidity and sensitiveness made of Flaubert a shy, lonely, grumpy misanthrope."
InLibroVeritas
- 20 oct. 2021
- 2 Min
Pablo Neruda : Ode to Arthur Rimbaud
"Now, this October you will turn a hundred, harrowing friend. May I speak to you ? I’m alone..."
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
