Aldous Huxley : Some Reflections on Time
"In all the arts whose raw material is of a temporal nature, the primary aim of the artist is to spatialize time."
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InLibroVeritas
28 juil. 20236 min de lecture
Aldous Huxley : Why not stay at home ?
"What Epicurus, who never travelled except when he was banished, sought in his own garden, our tourists seek abroad."
InLibroVeritas
27 juil. 20238 min de lecture
Maine de Biran, The Introvert (by Aldous Huxley)
"My own sensibility reacts but little externally. It is occupied either by confused inward impressions, or by the ideas which strike me."
InLibroVeritas
26 juil. 20233 min de lecture
Aldous Huxley : The Nihilist Revolution
"Nothing could be more chimerical than the notion that Man is the same thing as the Economic Man."
InLibroVeritas
8 juin 20234 min de lecture
Aldous Huxley : Georges de Latour and Géricault
" By exhibiting common things in an uncommon light, its flame makes manifest the living mystery and inexplicable marvel of mere existence."
InLibroVeritas
27 août 20224 min de lecture
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
29 juil. 20224 min de lecture
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. 202211 min de lecture
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
26 juil. 20226 min de lecture
Aldous Huxley : "Accidie"
"Throughout the Middle Ages this demon was known as Acedia, or, in English, Accidie. Monks were still his favourite victims..."
InLibroVeritas
27 déc. 20213 min de lecture
"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
18 déc. 20216 min de lecture
Aldous Huxley : Retour au meilleur des mondes
"Dans le monde où nous vivons, d'immenses forces tendent vers l'établissement d'un pouvoir centralisé et d'une société enrégimentée."
InLibroVeritas
20 nov. 20219 min de lecture
Aldous Huxley : Religion and Temperament
"To the three physical components Sheldon gives the names of endomorphy, mesomorphy and ectomorphy."
InLibroVeritas
16 sept. 20213 min de lecture
Aldous Huxley : "Time and the Machine"
"The time of which we have knowledge is artificial, machine-made time."
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