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."
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InLibroVeritas
26 août 20224 min de lecture
Albert Einstein : Society and Personality
"Without creative personalities able to think and judge independently, the upward development of society is as unthinkable..."
InLibroVeritas
17 août 20225 min de lecture
Carl Jung : The Meaning of Self-Knowledge
"We are living in what the Greeks called the καιρός – the right time – for a “metamorphosis of the gods” ..."
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
28 juil. 20226 min de lecture
Benjamin Franklin : On Conversation
"To please in Conversation is an Art which all People believe they understand and practise, tho’ most are ignorant or deficient in it."
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
14 juin 20226 min de lecture
William Hazlitt : On Living to One’s Self
"He who lives wisely to himself and to his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat..."
InLibroVeritas
25 mai 20227 min de lecture
Bertrand Russell : The Role of Individuality
"The great men who stand out in history have been partly benefactors of mankind and partly quite the reverse."
InLibroVeritas
22 mai 20227 min de lecture
"Triangular Desire in Cervantes, Flaubert and Stendhal", by René Girard
"Don Quixote, in Cervantes' novel, is a typical example of the victim of triangular desire, but he is far from being the only one."
InLibroVeritas
11 mai 20226 min de lecture
George Orwell : The redeeming feature of poverty
I lived in the Coq d'Or quarter for about a year and a half. One day, in summer, I found that I had just four hundred and fifty francs left.
InLibroVeritas
7 mai 20224 min de lecture
"Books v. Cigarettes", by George Orwell
"I have said enough to show that reading is one of the cheaper recreations: after listening to the radio probably the cheapest."
InLibroVeritas
6 mai 20226 min de lecture
Sigmund Freud : The Purpose of Human Life
"Foremost among the satisfactions we owe to the imagination is the enjoyment of works of art."
InLibroVeritas
25 avr. 20225 min de lecture
Carl Jung : The achievement of personality
"The achievement of personality means nothing less than the optimum development of the whole individual human being."
InLibroVeritas
22 avr. 20224 min de lecture
Jerry Mander : Arguments for the Elimination of Television
"TV addresses people in the midst of the confusion, isolation, and passivity that it has created in their minds."
InLibroVeritas
15 avr. 20227 min de lecture
Bertrand Russell : The Wisdom of Renunciation
"To every man comes, sooner or later, the great renunciation."
InLibroVeritas
30 mars 20224 min de lecture
Carl Jung : The Morality of Society
"It is a notorious fact that the morality of society as a whole is in inverse ratio to its size."
InLibroVeritas
6 mars 20224 min de lecture
"The harm that good men do", by Bertrand Russell
"A good man is one whose opinions and activities are pleasing to the holders of power."
InLibroVeritas
23 févr. 20226 min de lecture
"Paul Verlaine", by Stefan Zweig
"The works of great artists are silent books of eternal truths."
InLibroVeritas
15 févr. 20227 min de lecture
Alchemy and Introversion
"Introversion accordingly presents two possibilities, either to gain what the mystic work seeks, or to lose oneself."
InLibroVeritas
31 janv. 20224 min de lecture
Abraham Maslow : The Fear of Knowing
"Freud’s greatest discovery is that the great cause of much psychological illness is the fear of knowledge of oneself."
InLibroVeritas
29 janv. 20225 min de lecture
"Alienation as a Disease of Modern Man", by Erich Fromm
"In the nineteenth century, one could say : “God is dead.” In the twentieth, one must say that man is dead."
InLibroVeritas
22 janv. 20224 min de lecture
"A Nice Cup of Tea", by George Orwell
"Here are my own eleven rules, every one of which I regard as golden."
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'."
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