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InLibroVeritas
18 juil. 20215 min de lecture
"The Plight of the Individual in Modern Society", by Carl Jung
"The bigger the crowd the more negligible the individual becomes."
InLibroVeritas
2 juil. 20214 min de lecture
"Man — Wolf or Sheep ?", by Erich Fromm
"There are many who believe that humans are sheep; there are others who believe that humans are wolves."
InLibroVeritas
25 juin 202111 min de lecture
Lewis Mumford : Diagnosis of our times
"We have reached a point in history where man has become his own most dangerous enemy."
InLibroVeritas
23 juin 20216 min de lecture
Kafka's "Prison Cell" (by Pietro Citati)
"Thus, little by little, the Bachelor built his own prison. He suffered from it. He felt he was entirely imprisoned within himself..."
InLibroVeritas
12 juin 20214 min de lecture
Hermann Hesse : The Path of Solitude
"Zarathustra has gone a long way on the path of solitude. He has attended the school of suffering."
InLibroVeritas
12 juin 20216 min de lecture
Hermann Hesse : "Action and Suffering"
“What ought we to do ?” you ask me. You ask me time and time again, and yourselves as well. “Doing” — action — is so important to you..."
InLibroVeritas
9 juin 20219 min de lecture
"Nietzsche, Don Juan of the Intellectual World", by Stefan Zweig
"Nietzsche, therefore, never set up house with knowledge so as to economise and preserve; he built no spiritual home over his head."
InLibroVeritas
8 juin 20217 min de lecture
The Poet and The Magic of Orpheus
"The achievement of this Orphic poetry is to create the peace, trust, and sensitivity in which man can listen to this music of nature..."
InLibroVeritas
7 juin 20217 min de lecture
Henry Miller : Rimbaud and Van Gogh
"Of that band of martyrs, .. the one whose tragedy most closely approaches Rimbaud's is Van Gogh."
InLibroVeritas
25 mai 20215 min de lecture
Ralph Waldo Emerson : Man and Nature
"In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child."
InLibroVeritas
23 mai 202112 min de lecture
"Nietzsche's Seventh Solitude", by Stefan Zweig
"A void surrounded him, an awe-inspiring silence; no hermit or anchorite in the desert was ever more abandoned."
InLibroVeritas
20 mai 20215 min de lecture
"The Art of Solitude", by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
« “No man is an island,” said John Donne. I feel we are all islands — in a common sea. »
InLibroVeritas
17 mai 20214 min de lecture
Petrarch's Melancholy
"S. Augustine. : You are the victim of a terrible plague of the soul — melancholy ; which the moderns call accidie..."
InLibroVeritas
16 mai 20215 min de lecture
Emil Cioran : A Portrait of Civilized Man
"Civilization, our drug, has so poisoned us that our dependence on it is an addiction, a mixture of ecstasy and curse."
InLibroVeritas
8 mai 20215 min de lecture
"The Solitude of Absorption", by W. R. Alger
"In fact, for solid happiness and peace, there are none more favored than those blessed with a master-passion and a monopolizing work."
InLibroVeritas
5 mai 20218 min de lecture
"The Monotonization of the World" (Stefan Zweig, 1925)
"The same book in the hand, the same pen between the fingers, the same conversation on the lips, and the same automobile instead of feet."
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
30 avr. 20216 min de lecture
Chris Hedges : The Illusion of Happiness
"Transformational Positivity, he says, is the future of organizational change. Optimism can and must become a permanent state of mind."
InLibroVeritas
10 avr. 20213 min de lecture
Victor Hugo : Prometheus and Hamlet
"Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is interior."
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
6 avr. 20214 min de lecture
James Hollis : The Experience of Desuetude
"When we are depressed we may say we are dispirited; we have lost the energy for the journey..."
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
31 mars 20216 min de lecture
Rollo May : Understanding and coping with anxiety
"Anxiety is inescapable, anxiety is a part of all our lives. Anxiety is the source of all creativity."
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