"Montaigne, The Wise Skeptic", by R.W. Emerson
"The wise skeptic wishes to have a near view of the best game and the chief players; what is best in the planet; art and nature..."
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InLibroVeritas
29 mai 20234 min de lecture
Bertrand Russell : What makes people unhappy ?
Animals are happy so long as they have health and enough to eat. Human beings, one feels, ought to be, but in the modern world they are not.
InLibroVeritas
20 mai 20235 min de lecture
Balzac, The Eccentric (by Stefan Zweig)
"No less remarkable than Balzac’s genius as a writer was his lack of aptitude for the role of society lion."
InLibroVeritas
18 mai 20232 min de lecture
Bertrand Russell : On Comets
"In our day, it is difficult to imagine a world in which everybody, high and low, educated and uneducated, was preoccupied with comets,"
InLibroVeritas
18 mai 20234 min de lecture
Bertrand Russell : Modern Homogeneity
"America is a man-made world; moreover it is a world which man has made by means of machinery."
InLibroVeritas
5 mai 20236 min de lecture
Søren Kierkegaard : "The Present Age" (1886)
"The present age is an age of publicity, the age of miscellaneous announcements: nothing happens but still there is instant publicity."
InLibroVeritas
30 mars 20236 min de lecture
A day in Balzac’s working life, by Stefan Zweig
"Let us take a day in Balzac’s working life, a day typical of thousands."
InLibroVeritas
27 janv. 20235 min de lecture
Rollo May : The Artist and The Neurotic
"As Otto Rank remarked, the neurotic is the “artiste manqué,” the artist who cannot transmute his conflicts into art."
InLibroVeritas
8 janv. 20235 min de lecture
R.D. Laing : Normal alienation
"The condition of alienation, of being asleep, .. is the condition of the normal man. "
InLibroVeritas
26 nov. 20224 min de lecture
Nietzsche and the morality of constraint (by Georg Brandes)
"At the outset the essential element of all morality is, in Nietzsche's view, simply this, that it is a prolonged constraint."
InLibroVeritas
5 nov. 20224 min de lecture
Francis Bacon : Of Truth
"What is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer."
InLibroVeritas
4 nov. 20224 min de lecture
Henry David Thoreau : On Reading
"For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man ?"
InLibroVeritas
23 oct. 20224 min de lecture
Schiller : On the aesthetic education of man (Letter VIII)
"Must philosophy therefore retire from this field, disappointed in its hopes ?"
InLibroVeritas
23 oct. 20223 min de lecture
Schiller : On the aesthetic education of man (Letter V)
"Man portrays himself in his deeds, and what a form it is that is depicted in the drama of the present day !"
InLibroVeritas
4 oct. 20226 min de lecture
The Life of Emerson (by Edna Henry Lee Turpin)
"As a school-boy he was quiet and retiring, reading a great deal, but not paying much attention to his lessons."
InLibroVeritas
25 sept. 20226 min de lecture
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. 20225 min de lecture
"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. 20224 min de lecture
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. 20226 min de lecture
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
10 sept. 20227 min de lecture
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. 20226 min de lecture
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. 20227 min de lecture
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. 20227 min de lecture
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 20225 min de lecture
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."
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