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George Orwell : The Flat Earth theory
"The average man, says Shaw, can advance not a single reason for thinking that the earth is round."

InLibroVeritas
25 juin3 min de lecture


Emil Cioran : "Disintegration" / "I Do Not Know"
"At this moment I do not believe in anything and I have no hope."

InLibroVeritas
19 juin3 min de lecture


Emil Cioran : The Décor of Knowledge
"As for the great problems, we have no advantage over our ancestors or our more recent predecessors: men have always known everything, at least in what concerns the Essential."

InLibroVeritas
18 juin6 min de lecture


Emil Cioran : Déclin des civilisations
"Le rôle des périodes de déclin est de mettre une civilisation à nu, de la démasquer, de la dépouiller de ses prestiges et de l’arrogance liée à ses accomplissements."

InLibroVeritas
17 juin5 min de lecture


H.L. Mencken : Psychologists in a Fog
"THE SO-CALLED science of psychology is now in chaos, with no sign that order is soon to be restored. "

InLibroVeritas
4 juin4 min de lecture


H.L. Mencken : On Living in Baltimore
"I believe that this feeling for the hearth, for the immemorial lares and penates, is infinitely stronger in Baltimore than in New York — that it has better survived there, indeed, than in any other large city of America."

InLibroVeritas
2 juin7 min de lecture


Ashyaghosha : The Way of Tranquillity and The Way of Wisdom
"Those who are practising ‘stopping’ should retire to some quiet place and there, sitting erect, earnestly seek tranquilize and concentrate the mind."

InLibroVeritas
26 mai5 min de lecture


Carl Jung : The Origin of the Hero
"The psychic life-force, the libido, symbolizes itself in the sun or personifies itself in figures of heroes with solar attributes."

InLibroVeritas
23 mai5 min de lecture


Carl Jung : Myths and Dreams
"Myth is certainly not an infantile phantasm, but one of the most important requisites of primitive life."

InLibroVeritas
20 mai6 min de lecture


Carl Jung : Return To The Simple Life
"The return to the simple life can be regarded as an unhoped-for piece of good fortune even though it demands considerable self-sacrifice and is not undertaken voluntarily."

InLibroVeritas
15 mai5 min de lecture


Viktor Frankl : Existential frustration and Logotherapy
"Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy."

InLibroVeritas
4 mai5 min de lecture


Hermann Hesse : A Discontented Disciple (Sheldon Kopp)
"This tale begins when Siddhartha, the beautiful son of a Brahman priest, finds that though he makes everyone else happy, he is not happy himself."

InLibroVeritas
30 avr.7 min de lecture


H.D. Thoreau : The Horse and Man
"The more I considered, the more the man seemed akin to the horse."

InLibroVeritas
27 avr.4 min de lecture


H.D. Thoreau : Journal, December 1841
"One does not soon learn the trade of life. That one may work out a true life requires more art and delicate skill than any other work."

InLibroVeritas
18 avr.5 min de lecture


Horace, the Philosopher of Life
"A great source of the richness of personality which constitutes Horace's chief appeal lies in his contemplative disposition."

InLibroVeritas
26 mars10 min de lecture


D. H. Lawrence : Enslaved by Civilisation
"The one thing men have not learned to do is to stick up for their own instinctive feelings, against the things they are taught."

InLibroVeritas
17 mars7 min de lecture


Robert Louis Stevenson : On the Choice of a Profession
"YOU WRITE to me, my dear sir, requesting advice at one of the most momentous epochs in a young man’s life."

InLibroVeritas
28 févr.8 min de lecture


Robert Louis Stevenson : Pulvis Et Umbra
"The design in most men is one of conformity; here and there, in picked natures, it transcends itself and soars on the other side..."

InLibroVeritas
28 févr.6 min de lecture


Samuel Johnson : Le paresseux
"Le temps est de toutes les propriétés celle qu’il faut le plus garantir contre l’invasion."

InLibroVeritas
24 févr.3 min de lecture


Socrates, The Sociable Hermit
"The aim of the wise man was no longer the plaudits of the masses but autarkeia, or self-sufficiency."

InLibroVeritas
3 févr.3 min de lecture


Bertrand Russell in Prison
"Altogether, it was rather like being in a somewhat spartan study centre - or perhaps even more like being in a monastery."

InLibroVeritas
29 janv.6 min de lecture


Joseph Brodsky : In Praise of Boredom
In a manner of speaking, boredom is your window on time. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.

InLibroVeritas
14 janv.5 min de lecture


John Burroughs : The Art of Seeing Things
"There is nothing in which people differ more than in their powers of observation."

InLibroVeritas
8 janv.6 min de lecture


"In Wordworth's Country", by John Burroughs
"Falls and cascades are a great feature all through this country, as they are a marked feature in Wordsworth's poetry."

InLibroVeritas
7 janv.4 min de lecture
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