In Libro Veritas

Many texts and essays on Philosophy, Psychology, Litterature and Arts on

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"Flaubert experienced from childhood on an unquestionable fondness for privacy and solitude. A well-heated room, books and leisure seemed to the young Gustave the most desirable conditions for happiness."

https://t.co/8WZh4sHDR3

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"Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath."

Mary Wollstonecraft
Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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"How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind."

Mary Wollstonecraft

Letters

[In Libro Veritas @InlibroV]

“Man has to fight for every atom of the truth, and has to pay for it almost everything that the heart, that human love, that human trust cling to. Greatness of soul is needed for this business: the service of truth is the hardest of all services.”

Nietzsche, The Antichrist

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"There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge."

Roger Bacon
Opus Majus

[MΛЯIПΛ @oscillate23]

This is a 17th-century French engraving entitled Miroir de la pécheresse (Mirror of the Sinner), created around 1690 by Jacques Chiquet.

[my name is nobody @infinita_fiori]

why, oh why do i have to be this bird-fish thing that throws itself into the air to seek the sun? thus, without breath above, and without warmth below, there and here, i ever remain an exile all the same!

adam mickiewicz, 1832
tr. mateusz stróżyński and j. singh boparai

[Democritus Sr @DemocritusSr]

Edward Young, from “Night-Thoughts” #poetry

[Edmund @Kulambq]

'... colorful abysses full of fairy-tale deeds ...'

Hermann Hesse

[Vague @Vagualam]

Flaubert encore, 1857.

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

“The proximity of truly great minds, and also the proximity of truly great, independent, courageous hearts, casts me down one minute and raises me up the next.”

— Hölderlin (letter to Neuffer, 1794)

(trans. Charlie Louth)

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

“In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single life span, to watch the great impersonal universe at work again and again…”

— Mary Ruefle, Planet on the Table

[Karl Popper Quotes @QuotePopper]

"Error correction is the most important method in technology and learning in general."

––Karl Popper, All Life is Problem Solving.

[Literarium @Literarium12]

from Franz Kafka's "Letters to Felice"

[In Libro Veritas @InlibroV]

"One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patterns at the right moment."

Hart Crane
A Second Flowering

[Democritus Sr @DemocritusSr]

Michel de Montaigne, “On the Art of Conversation” (To keep in mind here 😉)

[Michel Lara @VeraCausa9]

Edward Bulwer-Lytton once advised: "In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The Classic literature is always modern." That is, scientific progress isn't contingent on human ethics, for we can always draw moral lessons from ancient literature.