Life of Antisthenes (c. 445-365 BCE)
"When he was asked what advantage he had ever derived from philosophy, he replied: “The advantage of being able to converse with myself"."
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13 janv. 20215 min de lecture
Life of Diogenes of Sinope, The Cynic (404‐323 BC)
[Extracts] "Time makes even bronze grow old : but thy glory, Diogenes, all eternity will never destroy..."
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5 janv. 20213 min de lecture
Blaise Pascal : On Diversions
"When I have set myself now and then to consider the various distractions of men, the toils and dangers to which they expose themselves..."
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1 janv. 20211 min de lecture
"On My Painting", by Max Beckmann
[Extracts] “Art is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make.”
― Max Beckmann
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31 déc. 20208 min de lecture
Nietzsche : The Great Health
"Life, to us, that means constantly transforming all that we are into light and flame..."
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30 déc. 20201 min de lecture
"To Imagination", by Emily Brontë
"When weary with the long day's care
And earthly change from pain to pain
And lost, and ready to despair
Thy kind voice calls me back again"
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30 déc. 20207 min de lecture
Huysmans on the "De Profundis"
"A slow and mournful chant arose, the "De Profundis"."
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29 déc. 20205 min de lecture
Théophile Gautier : Portrait of Baudelaire
[Extract] "Charles Baudelaire was then an almost unknown genius, preparing himself in the shadow for the light to come..."
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28 déc. 20204 min de lecture
Oscar Wilde : Sorrow wears no mask
"There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth."
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28 déc. 20201 min de lecture
Oscar Wilde : Narcissus and the Pool
"When Narcissus died, the pool of his pleasure changed from a cup of sweet waters into a cup of salt tears."
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28 déc. 20209 min de lecture
"Bohemia", by Mikhail Bulgakov
"If someone asked me what I deserve, I would say in all honesty before God that I deserve hard labor. Not because of Tiflis, however..."
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26 déc. 20206 min de lecture
"Vanka", by Anton Chekhov
[Text] "Vanka Zhukov, a boy of nine, who had been for three months apprenticed to Alyahin the shoemaker, was sitting up on Christmas Eve..."
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16 déc. 20201 min de lecture
William James : Letters to Henri Bergson
[Letters] "O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy..."
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9 déc. 20205 min de lecture
Giacomo Leopardi: Panegyric of Birds
[Essay] "Birds are naturally the most joyful creatures in the world...."
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4 déc. 20205 min de lecture
Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters on Cézanne's paintings
"... the old master to whom one might well apply the words he himself used to describe Pissarro: humble and colossal."
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25 nov. 20208 min de lecture
Self-Actualization : Personality Traits (Abraham Maslow)
"Cant, guile, hypocrisy, front, face, playing a game, trying to impress in conventional ways: these are all absent in themselves."
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25 nov. 20203 min de lecture
Abraham Maslow : Self-Actualization and Creativeness
"Every person is, in part, 'his own project', and makes himself."
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15 nov. 20203 min de lecture
William James : Philosophical insights
"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being." William James
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12 nov. 20208 min de lecture
Auguste Rodin on Art and Literature
[Book] "Today, mankind believes itself able to do without Art. It does not wish to meditate, to contemplate, to dream..."
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3 nov. 20203 min de lecture
Hermann Hesse : The Wisdom of Trees
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers..."
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3 nov. 20205 min de lecture
"Consider the Lilies", by Søren Kierkegaard
"So what can the anxiety-ridden person learn from the lilies ?"
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