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."
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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
- 27 août
- 6 Min
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
- 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"."
InLibroVeritas
- 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
- 8 août
- 3 Min
Hermann Hesse : Demian (Prologue)
"What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days."
InLibroVeritas
- 6 août
- 3 Min
Cinderella's Name
"The syllables Ella occurring in Cinderella, are the Greek Ele, which means shiner or giver of light."
InLibroVeritas
- 4 août
- 12 Min
Cinderella's Garment
"Her supernatural and mystical dresses seem to symbolise the awakening, growth, and final apotheosis of Wisdom within the mind."
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
- 21 juil.
- 2 Min
Ernest Hemingway : Banquet speech, 1954
"For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment."
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
- 13 juil.
- 6 Min
Søren Kierkegaard : "Gnothi Seauton"
"One must know oneself before knowing anything else."
InLibroVeritas
- 19 juin
- 8 Min
Goethe : Letters to Zelter
"Wealth and rapidity are what the world admires, and what everyone strives to attain."
InLibroVeritas
- 8 juin
- 4 Min
Aldous Huxley : Georges de Latour and Géricault
" By exhibiting common things in an uncommon light, its flame makes manifest the living mystery and inexplicable marvel of mere existence."
InLibroVeritas
- 7 juin
- 4 Min
Horace : Hoc Erat In Votis
"This used to be my wish: a bit of land,
A house and garden with a spring at hand, And just a little wood."
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. "
InLibroVeritas
- 2 juin
- 6 Min
George Orwell : The Sporting Spirit
"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play."
