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InLibroVeritas
26 juin 20211 min de lecture
Emil Cioran : Entretiens et documentaires
[Emil Cioran, né le 8 avril 1911 à Resinár, alors en Autriche-Hongrie (actuelle Rășinari, en Roumanie), et mort le 20 juin 1995 à Paris.]


InLibroVeritas
26 juin 20217 min de lecture
Nietzsche : Souvenirs d'enfance (Noël ; La Musique)
"C’est avec le commencement de mes vacances qu’ont débuté ces réjouissances de Noël que je veux dépeindre."


InLibroVeritas
25 juin 20216 min de lecture
Cioran on Litterature and Music (Interview)
"The truly great writers are those who have a feel for the subterranean. .. The great novelists are the true psychologists."


InLibroVeritas
25 juin 202111 min de lecture
Lewis Mumford : Diagnosis of our times
"We have reached a point in history where man has become his own most dangerous enemy."


InLibroVeritas
18 juin 202121 min de lecture
Arthur Schopenhauer : Curriculum Vitae
"Je délaissai mes obligations et jour après jour je ne pensai qu’à gagner du temps, pour pouvoir me consacrer aux livres une fois chez moi."


InLibroVeritas
17 juin 20217 min de lecture
Søren Kierkegaard : "The wild goose" and other parables
"There was once a wild goose. In the autumn, about the time for migration, it became aware of some tame geese."


InLibroVeritas
14 juin 20218 min de lecture
Marie-Madeleine Davy : "La recherche de soi"
"Celui qui part à la recherche de lui-même, semblable — nous l’avons vu — à un pèlerin, se voue à une marche incessante."


Irène de Palacio
14 juin 20215 min de lecture
Cioran et l'élan poétique du "Livre des leurres"
"Toute ma vie je m’enfuirai vers un monde où les hommes ont l’illusion d’être, pour qu’un autre monde m’étreigne plus fort..."


InLibroVeritas
14 juin 20218 min de lecture
"Le voyage de l'âme", par Marie-Magdeleine Davy
"La recherche de la connaissance de soi se présente comme une démarche à accomplir. Elle transforme l’homme en pèlerin."


InLibroVeritas
11 juin 20215 min de lecture
Amiel on Arthur Schopenhauer
"This pre-established harmony between the theory of Schopenhauer and my own natural man causes me pleasure mingled with terror."


InLibroVeritas
9 juin 20219 min de lecture
"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
4 juin 20218 min de lecture
Le pessimisme de Leopardi, par Remy de Gourmont
"En prose comme en vers, c'est un pessimiste de nature, plus que de raisonnement. Sa sensibilité parle, plutôt que son intelligence."


InLibroVeritas
25 mai 20215 min de lecture
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 202112 min de lecture
"Nietzsche's Seventh Solitude", by Stefan Zweig
"A void surrounded him, an awe-inspiring silence; no hermit or anchorite in the desert was ever more abandoned."


InLibroVeritas
20 mai 20218 min de lecture
"A Fairy World", by Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Maïa ! Is she indeed the true goddess ? Hindoo wisdom long ago regarded the world as the dream of Brahma."


InLibroVeritas
17 mai 20214 min de lecture
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 20215 min de lecture
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
10 mai 20217 min de lecture
Socrate et la sagesse indienne
"Selon une tradition antique remontant à Aristoxène de Tarente, un visiteur indien aurait fréquenté à Athènes le futur maître de Platon."


InLibroVeritas
9 mai 20214 min de lecture
Diogène, disciple d'Antisthène (par Paul Hervieu)
« Je m'appelle Diogène ; si tu veux, nous vivrons ensemble : tu seras le maître et moi le disciple. »


InLibroVeritas
9 mai 20217 min de lecture
Henry David Thoreau : Mind and Nature
"There is, no doubt, a perfect analogy between the life of the human and that of the vegetable, both of the body and the mind."


InLibroVeritas
8 mai 20215 min de lecture
"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
6 mai 20216 min de lecture
"My Silent Confidant", by Søren Kierkegaard
"Who am I ? How did I get into the world ? Why was I not asked about it ?"


InLibroVeritas
5 mai 20218 min de lecture
"The Monotonization of the World" (Stefan Zweig, 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
4 mai 20211 min de lecture
Les Humanités ou l’utilité de l'inutile (Conférences de Nuccio Ordine)
["Nourrir le corps, Nourrir l'esprit" / "Eloge de la lenteur" / "Philosophie, science et vie chez Giordano Bruno"]


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