John Lubbock : The Love of Nature
"The love of Nature is a great gift, and if it is frozen or crushed out, the character can hardly fail to suffer from the loss."
InLibroVeritas
- 20 sept.
- 5 Min
"Contemplative habit of mind", by Bertrand Russell
"A contemplative habit of mind has advantages ranging from the most trivial to the most profound."
InLibroVeritas
- 15 sept.
- 4 Min
The Value of the Study of Dante (by Elizabeth Harrison)
“Behold then in this little play
A world-wide truth set free !
Easily may a symbol teach
What thy reason cannot reach.”
InLibroVeritas
- 11 sept.
- 6 Min
Shakespeare's knowledge of mankind, by A. Schlegel
"Shakespeare's knowledge of mankind has become proverbial: he has justly been called the master of the human mind."
InLibroVeritas
- 11 sept.
- 7 Min
Facts of Shakespeare's Life, by Mark Twain
"In the list as above set down, will be found every positively known fact of Shakespeare’s life, lean and meagre as the invoice is."
InLibroVeritas
- 10 sept.
- 6 Min
The Secret of Francis Bacon, W. T. Smedley
"One lives in one's genius, other things shall be (or pass away) in death."
InLibroVeritas
- 10 sept.
- 7 Min
Shakespeare and Bacon (by Dr. Gervinus )
"In the chapter on "His Age," Professor Gervinus pours out the results of a profound study of the writings attributed to both men."
InLibroVeritas
- 8 sept.
- 7 Min
Bertrand Russell : The Pilgrimage of Life
"When joy and pain are overcome, peace and love remain, and Wisdom softly whispers words of rest and calm."
InLibroVeritas
- 29 août
- 5 Min
William Hazlitt : Hamlet
"He is full of weakness and melancholy, but there is no harshness in his nature. He is the most amiable of misanthropes."
InLibroVeritas
- 27 août
- 4 Min
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."
InLibroVeritas
- 26 août
- 4 Min
Albert Einstein : Society and Personality
"Without creative personalities able to think and judge independently, the upward development of society is as unthinkable..."
InLibroVeritas
- 18 août
- 5 Min
Carl Jung : The Meaning of Self-Knowledge
"We are living in what the Greeks called the καιρός – the right time – for a “metamorphosis of the gods” ..."
InLibroVeritas
- 29 juil.
- 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.
- 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
- 28 juil.
- 6 Min
Benjamin Franklin : On Conversation
"To please in Conversation is an Art which all People believe they understand and practise, tho’ most are ignorant or deficient in it."
InLibroVeritas
- 26 juil.
- 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
- 21 juil.
- 5 Min
Joubert : The Author, Drawn by Himself
"I long to make wisdom current coin, that is to say to stamp it into maxims, proverbs, sentences, easy to retain, and to hand on."
InLibroVeritas
- 2 juil.
- 4 Min
Hermann Hesse : On Painting
"From all this desolation, .. I found my own form of escape through something I had never done before - by beginning to draw and paint."
InLibroVeritas
- 14 juin
- 6 Min
William Hazlitt : On Living to One’s Self
"He who lives wisely to himself and to his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat..."
InLibroVeritas
- 25 mai
- 7 Min
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
- 22 mai
- 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
- 20 mai
- 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."
