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InLibroVeritas
17 févr. 20244 min de lecture
Montaigne : Of belief and easiness of persuasion
"’Tis a presumption of great danger and consequence, besides the absurd temerity it draws after it, to contemn what we do not comprehend."


InLibroVeritas
4 févr. 20246 min de lecture
Jolande Jacobi : The Individuation Process
"The individuation process, as a universal law of life, exhibits an archetypal pattern which remains more or less constant and regular."


InLibroVeritas
2 févr. 20246 min de lecture
Jolande Jacobi : Individuation and the "change of life"
"The "change of life" is .. the urge and possibility for further spiritual and psychic development."


InLibroVeritas
26 janv. 20245 min de lecture
Karl Mannheim : Privacy and Inwardness in the Modern World
"Privacy and inwardness are perhaps the strongest means of individualization."


InLibroVeritas
22 janv. 20248 min de lecture
James Hollis : What is Healing ?
"This particular animal, the human, is the most complex and needs the longest length of protection before it is able to manage on its own."


InLibroVeritas
19 janv. 202414 min de lecture
Rollo May : "The Existentialist Experience"
Amidst this gray, dreary anonymity we know that we live in a world from which all the gracious marks of "presence" have been banished."


InLibroVeritas
7 janv. 20244 min de lecture
"On visiting bookshops", by Christopher Morley
"It is a curious thing that so many people only go into a bookshop when they happen to need some particular book."


InLibroVeritas
27 déc. 20236 min de lecture
Plato's Chariot Allegory (Phaedrus)
"Of the nature of the soul, though her true form be ever a theme of more than mortal discourse, let me speak briefly, and in a figure."


InLibroVeritas
23 déc. 20232 min de lecture
Emily Dickinson : Letter To Elizabeth Holland (20 January 1856)
"We cannot talk and laugh more, in the parlor where we met, but we learned to love for aye, there, so it is just as well."


InLibroVeritas
22 déc. 20236 min de lecture
Samuel Johnson : "Sapere aude"
" Many of our hours are lost in a rotation of petty cares, in a constant recurrence of the same employments."


InLibroVeritas
22 déc. 20235 min de lecture
Karl Kraus : In Praise of a Topsy-Turvy Life-Style
An old king in Shakespeare cautions:
“Make no noise, make no noise, draw the curtains .... we’ll go to supper i’ the morning.”


InLibroVeritas
20 déc. 20237 min de lecture
William Barrett : The Age of Nothingness
"Our time, said Max Scheler, is the first in which man has become thoroughly and completely problematic to himself."


InLibroVeritas
16 déc. 20235 min de lecture
Bolinbroke : Reflections on Exile
"Dissipation of mind, and length of time, are the remedies to which the greatest part of mankind trust in their afflictions."


InLibroVeritas
26 nov. 20237 min de lecture
"I began to lose me" : A letter to Carl Rogers
"I don't know how to explain who I am or why I am writing to you except to say that I have just read your book, On Becoming a Person, ..."


InLibroVeritas
23 nov. 20233 min de lecture
Empathic: An Unappreciated Way of Being (Carl Rogers)
"I would no longer be terming it a "state of empathy," because I believe it to be a process, rather than a state."


InLibroVeritas
22 nov. 20234 min de lecture
Carl Rogers : The tendency toward fulfillment
"To me it is meaningful to say that the substratum of all motivation is the organismic tendency toward fulfillment."


InLibroVeritas
25 oct. 20235 min de lecture
Soulful and Spirited Temperaments
People with a soulful psychological temperament are receptive, reflective, often deliberate and slow.


InLibroVeritas
25 sept. 20233 min de lecture
William Faulkner : Nobel Prize Speech, 1949
"Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it."


InLibroVeritas
31 août 20239 min de lecture
The Solitary Summer (by Elizabeth von Arnim)
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"- Last night after dinner, when we were in the garden, I said,"I want to be alone for a whole summer, and get to the very dregs of life."


InLibroVeritas
27 août 20236 min de lecture
Yoshida Kenkō : Essays in Idleness
"One’s education must first of all be directed to a thorough knowledge of the classics and an understanding of the teachings of the sages."


InLibroVeritas
23 août 20236 min de lecture
Leo Strauss : What Is Liberal Education ?
"Liberal education is literate education of a certain kind: some sort of education in letters or through letters."


InLibroVeritas
18 août 20235 min de lecture
Balzac and Stendhal (by Stefan Zweig)
"Balzac realised even from the early volumes the particular quality of Stendhal’s intelligence and his mastery of psychology."

InLibroVeritas
10 août 20234 min de lecture
Plutarch : On Osiris
"For the king and lord Osiris, they represent by an eye and a sceptre, and some even interpret the name as "Many-eyed"."


InLibroVeritas
9 août 20233 min de lecture
The Doctrines of Pythagoras
"Mankind is divided into three classes: Lovers of wealth; lovers of honour, and lovers of wisdom ; this last, being highest."
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