Karl Jaspers : Hamlet and the Problem of Truth
"Hamlet's knowledge and his desire for knowledge set him apart from the world. In it, he cannot be of it. He acts the part of a madman."
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31 oct.6 min de lecture
Hojoki: An Account of My Hut (Kamo No Chōmei, 1212)
"Where can one be, what can one do, to find a little safe shelter in this world, and a little peace of mind ?"
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30 oct.4 min de lecture
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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25 oct.6 min de lecture
Carl Gustav Carus on Art and Beauty
"Let us freely and wholeheartedly yield to inner impulse, ranging in thought over every part of beauty's realm."
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22 oct.6 min de lecture
George Orwell : Pleasure Spots
"Much of what goes by the name of pleasure is simply an effort to destroy consciousness."
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20 oct.4 min de lecture
J.W. Goethe : Nature
"NATURE ! We are encompassed and embraced by her — powerless to withdraw, yet powerless to enter more deeply into her being."
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14 oct.6 min de lecture
Stefan Zweig : Heinrich von Kleist's likeness
"His shell was too hard—and this was the tragedy of his existence. He was reserved to excess, and kept everything locked up within himself."
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11 oct.5 min de lecture
Abraham Cowley : The Danger of Procrastination
"I am glad that you approve and applaud my design of withdrawing myself from all tumult and business of the world..."
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11 oct.7 min de lecture
"Of Solitude", by Abraham Cowley (1668)
"... solitude can be well fitted and set right but upon a very few persons."
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30 sept.5 min de lecture
The Majesty of Calmness (by William George Jordan)
"Calmness is the rarest quality in human life. It is the poise of a great nature, in harmony with itself and its ideals."
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24 sept.4 min de lecture
Thomas Carlyle : Advice to Young Men
"For one thing, you may be strenuously advised to keep reading."
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23 sept.10 min de lecture
"Marcel Proust’s Tragic Life Course", by Stefan Zweig
"And, just like Saint-Simon, seemingly a shallow courtier at the king’s court, secretly he becomes the actor and judge of an entire epoch."
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20 sept.8 min de lecture
Stendhal : An Ego and the World (Stefan Zweig)
"At first he noticed merely that he was different from the ruck, that he was more delicately poised, more sensitive, more keen-sighted."
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18 sept.8 min de lecture
Stendhal : Love of Falsehood and Delight in Truth (Stefan Zweig)
"FEW have lied more arrantly or quizzed the world with greater delight than Stendhal; few have told the truth with more profundity than he."
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15 sept.7 min de lecture
"The Refuge", by Hermann Hesse (1917)
"MANY YEARS a favorite wish has accompanied me. This favorite wish was a pretty one, — a refuge."
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5 sept.9 min de lecture
"On Vanity and Vanities", by Jerome K. Jerome (1886)
" I fear we are most of us like Mrs. Poyser's bantam cock, who fancied the sun got up every morning to hear him crow."
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5 sept.7 min de lecture
Lewis Mumford : Mass-Sport or The Spectacle of Efficiency
"Sport presents three main elements: the spectacle, the competition, and the personalities of the gladiators."
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28 août6 min de lecture
"On Little Joys", by Hermann Hesse
'I believe what we lack is joy. The ardor that a heightened awareness imparts to life,.."
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28 août6 min de lecture
"Home From the Sea", by J.B. Priestley
"Thus it was not long before I began to see the world as long-voyage sailors must always have seen it."
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27 août3 min de lecture
"Man and the Night", by Paul Valéry
"We can count these stars, and yet we cannot believe that we exist as far as they are concerned."
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27 août2 min de lecture
"The Lesson of a Tree", by Walt Whitman
"Go and sit in a grove or woods, with one or more of those voiceless companions, and read the foregoing, and think."
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25 août6 min de lecture
"On A Faithful Friend", by Virginia Woolf
"So we say farewell to a dear and faithful friend, whose virtues we remember — and dogs have few faults."
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23 août11 min de lecture
“Words Fail Me”, by Virginia Woolf
"Words, then, are not useful. Let us now enquire into their other quality, their positive quality, that is, their power to tell the truth."
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21 août5 min de lecture
The Myth of the "Night Sea Journey" (Jolande Jacobi)
"Jung has on various occasions referred to the myth of the "night sea journey" cited by Frobenius, which he named the "whale dragon myth"."
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