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Herr Schäfer, demande le principal, vous connaissez bien ce livre, ce Chamberlain ? — Pas plus que je ne souhaite connaître quelque pseudo-historien que ce soit. C’est un vulgarisateur de l’œuvre d’Arthur de Gobineau, ce raciste français dont les livres sur la supériorité fondamentale des races aryennes ont influencé Wagner. Gobineau comme Chamberl
... See moreIrvin Yalom • Le Problème Spinoza (Littérature) (French Edition)
... See moreThe aspect of Scott Buchanan’s life to which this memoir relates began, for me at least, with a college lecture he gave in October of 1944.
The lecture was a flight of high speculative fancy in which he tried to imagine the features of a Republic of Learning joined with a political republic.
If man is a political animal, his virtues compromised and
The devotion to an altered state of mind propels puer fantasy toward altering the mind of the state by setting fires of rebellion. The calling from the eternal world demands that this world here be turned upside down, to restore its nearness to the moon; lunacy, love, poetics. Flower power, Woodstock, Berkeley, the cry of the students of Paris ’68:
... See moreJames Hillman • The Soul's Code
'Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.'
Aldous Huxley • Brave New World: Aldous Huxley's Most Popular Dystopian Classic Novel: Aldous Huxley's Most Popular Classic Novel
But the Church wasn’t Blake’s only target. He found the same passion for order among scientists, their need to mansplain everything squeezing the mystery and magic out of the universe. He longed for them . . . To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Paradoxalement, c’est en portant son individualité à son point d’incandescence que l’homme parvient à l’universel et qu’il devient grand. Montaigne fut ainsi, Emerson aimait beaucoup Montaigne.
Michel Onfray • Vivre une vie philosophique (French Edition)
where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a contempt of law;