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."
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Ressources et points de vue culturels
Anthologia met en ligne une sélection d'œuvres littéraires et artistiques ainsi que des articles critiques, pour redécouvrir la culture autrement.
InLibroVeritas
- 23 août
- 6 Min
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
- 5 Min
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
- 4 Min
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"."
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- 9 août
- 3 Min
The Doctrines of Pythagoras
"Mankind is divided into three classes: Lovers of wealth; lovers of honour, and lovers of wisdom ; this last, being highest."
InLibroVeritas
- 29 juil.
- 5 Min
"Rainbow Myths", by Carl B. Boyer
"The inaccessibility of the ends of the rainbow has encouraged the growth of countless legends."
InLibroVeritas
- 28 juil.
- 6 Min
Aldous Huxley : Why not stay at home ?
"What Epicurus, who never travelled except when he was banished, sought in his own garden, our tourists seek abroad."
InLibroVeritas
- 27 juil.
- 8 Min
Maine de Biran, The Introvert (by Aldous Huxley)
"My own sensibility reacts but little externally. It is occupied either by confused inward impressions, or by the ideas which strike me."
InLibroVeritas
- 27 juil.
- 3 Min
Aldous Huxley : The Nihilist Revolution
"Nothing could be more chimerical than the notion that Man is the same thing as the Economic Man."
InLibroVeritas
- 22 juil.
- 8 Min
Guy de Maupassant, by Joseph Conrad
"Maupassant's renown is universal, but his popularity is restricted. It is not difficult to perceive why."
InLibroVeritas
- 20 juil.
- 3 Min
Plotinus : The Inner Vision
"Nothing now remaining that can shatter that inner unity, nothing from without clinging to the authentic man."
InLibroVeritas
- 19 juil.
- 6 Min
Mircea Eliade : Rites of Initiation
"Initiatory death signifies the end at once of childhood, of ignorance, and of the profane condition."
InLibroVeritas
- 5 juin
- 4 Min
C.G. Jung : The archdemon of egoism
"The archdemon of egoism leads us along the royal road to that ingathering which religious experience demands."
InLibroVeritas
- 2 juin
- 9 Min
Miguel de Unamuno : For what did Don Quixote fight ?
"For what did Don Quixote fight ? For Dulcinea, for glory, for life, for survival. "
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- 2 juin
- 6 Min
George Orwell : The Sporting Spirit
"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play."
InLibroVeritas
- 29 mai
- 3 Min
G. K. Chesterton : The Mad Official
"Going mad is the slowest and dullest business in the world."
InLibroVeritas
- 29 mai
- 3 Min
"Montaigne, The Wise Skeptic", by R.W. Emerson
"The wise skeptic wishes to have a near view of the best game and the chief players; what is best in the planet; art and nature..."
InLibroVeritas
- 29 mai
- 4 Min
Bertrand Russell : What makes people unhappy ?
Animals are happy so long as they have health and enough to eat. Human beings, one feels, ought to be, but in the modern world they are not.
InLibroVeritas
- 20 mai
- 5 Min
Balzac, The Eccentric (by Stefan Zweig)
"No less remarkable than Balzac’s genius as a writer was his lack of aptitude for the role of society lion."
InLibroVeritas
- 18 mai
- 2 Min
Bertrand Russell : On Comets
"In our day, it is difficult to imagine a world in which everybody, high and low, educated and uneducated, was preoccupied with comets,"
InLibroVeritas
- 18 mai
- 4 Min
Bertrand Russell : Modern Homogeneity
"America is a man-made world; moreover it is a world which man has made by means of machinery."
InLibroVeritas
- 5 mai
- 6 Min
Søren Kierkegaard : "The Present Age" (1886)
"The present age is an age of publicity, the age of miscellaneous announcements: nothing happens but still there is instant publicity."
InLibroVeritas
- 30 mars
- 6 Min
A day in Balzac’s working life, by Stefan Zweig
"Let us take a day in Balzac’s working life, a day typical of thousands."
InLibroVeritas
- 27 janv.
- 5 Min
Rollo May : The Artist and The Neurotic
"As Otto Rank remarked, the neurotic is the “artiste manqué,” the artist who cannot transmute his conflicts into art."
