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InLibroVeritas
2 mai 20216 min de lecture
Karl Jaspers : The Philosophical Life
"Only transcendence can make this questionable life good, the world beautiful, and existence itself a fulfilment."


InLibroVeritas
1 mai 20215 min de lecture
Lewis Mumford : The Modern Metropolis
"Living thus, year in and year out, .. remote from the nature that is outside them, and no less remote from the nature that is within."


InLibroVeritas
29 avr. 20215 min de lecture
"De la philosophie", par Madame de Staël
"La philosophie, dont je crois utile et possible aux âmes passionnées d'adopter les secours, est de la nature la plus relevée."


InLibroVeritas
20 avr. 20215 min de lecture
Hermann Hesse : Hymn to Old Age
"Old age is a stage in our lives, ... it has its own face, its own atmosphere and temperature, its own joys and needs."


InLibroVeritas
15 avr. 20213 min de lecture
Lichtenberg : Aphorisms on Books, Reading and Truth
"I offer this book to you not as a lorgnette to observe others but as a mirror to observe yourself."


InLibroVeritas
14 avr. 20217 min de lecture
Portrait de Vauvenargues (par Paul Hazard)
"Le sort n'aimait pas Vauvenargues ; à moins qu'il ne lui préparât, par une vie toute pleine de misères, une plus éclatante revanche."


InLibroVeritas
13 avr. 20216 min de lecture
Emil Cioran : Man, that dissatisfied animal...
"If I could, I would choose every day another form, plant or animal, I would be all flowers one by one: weed, thistle, or rose..."

InLibroVeritas
12 avr. 20215 min de lecture
Nietzsche et Chamfort : L'amertume passionnée
"Le monde ne m’a rien offert de tel qu’en descendant en moi-même je n’aie trouvé encore mieux chez moi."

InLibroVeritas
12 avr. 20215 min de lecture
Nicolas Chamfort : Thoughts on society
"One wishes for laziness in wicked men and silence in fools."


InLibroVeritas
9 avr. 20215 min de lecture
Voltaire : "Du meilleur des mondes"
"Il me fit de très belles distinctions, assurant toujours .. que ce monde-ci est le meilleur de tous les mondes réellement impossibles."


InLibroVeritas
8 avr. 202110 min de lecture
Nietzsche : Letters to his friends
"Oh, dear friend, what a small amount of joy is mine and what a lot of my own smoke I have to consume !"


InLibroVeritas
7 avr. 20216 min de lecture
Alone on the High Seas of the Soul (by James Hollis)
"When we are not alone when we are on our own, then we have achieved solitude."


InLibroVeritas
5 avr. 20214 min de lecture
James Hollis : The Meaning of Life (Quotes)
“Success, peace, happiness, and distraction — pale before the question of whether or not one experiences this life as meaningful.”


InLibroVeritas
1 avr. 20215 min de lecture
The benefits of reading, by Jacques Barzun
"Reading can easily be nothing more than a way to kill time; but if it is calculated and intense, it is a steady extension of one's life."

InLibroVeritas
30 mars 20215 min de lecture
Giordano Bruno : The Virtues of the Zodiac
"May the Dragon of Envy be far from us, and the Swan of Imprudence, the Cassiopeia of Vanity, the Andromeda of Laziness..."


InLibroVeritas
29 mars 20213 min de lecture
Neil Postman : 1984, or Brave New World ?
"What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one."


Irène de Palacio
27 mars 20213 min de lecture
L'"invocation à l'insomnie" de Cioran
"On ne voit pas impunément dans les ténèbres, on n'en recueille pas sans danger l'enseignement..."


Irène de Palacio
26 mars 20216 min de lecture
Cioran, propos sur l'insomnie
"Mes insomnies, je leur dois le meilleur et le pire de moi-même."


InLibroVeritas
24 mars 20219 min de lecture
Nietzsche et la souffrance créatrice
"C’est de la douleur que naît toute beauté et toute grandeur d’âme, écrit Hölderlin."


InLibroVeritas
24 mars 20216 min de lecture
Solitude de Nietzsche
"Presque tous les grands hommes de l’humanité en ont fait l’expérience. Les grands créateurs ont été des êtres solitaires."


InLibroVeritas
21 mars 20214 min de lecture
Voltaire : Limits of the human mind
"What is thought ? where does it dwell ? how is it formed ?"


InLibroVeritas
21 mars 20215 min de lecture
Platon : Allégorie de la caverne
"Voilà précisément l’image de notre condition. L’antre souterrain, c’est ce monde visible: le feu qui l’éclaire, c’est la lumière du soleil"

InLibroVeritas
19 mars 20217 min de lecture
The Cat in Mythology, by Marie-Louise von Franz
"The white cat was a healer and a nurse. She destroyed poison, counteracted irritation and strengthened people's powers of recuperation."


InLibroVeritas
17 mars 20212 min de lecture
"Naga-Vagga" : L’éléphant
"Garde-toi des pensées vagabondes ! /
Elève-toi au-dessus de ce marécage de souffrance / Comme l’éléphant s’extrait de la boue."


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