I Sorels Hovedværk Réflexions sur la violence citeres disse Ord af Renan: «En umaadelig moralsk og maaske ogsaa intellektuel Nedgang vil blive Resultatet den Dag, Religionen forsvinder fra Verden. Vi kan undvære Religionen, fordi andre har den for os. De, der ikke tror, føres med af den mere eller mindre troende Masse. Men den Dag […]
Egypt’s might is tumbled down Down a-down the deeps of thought; Greece is fallen and Troy town, Glorious Rome hath lost her crown, Venice’ pride is nought. But the dreams their children dreamed Fleeting, unsubstantial, vain Shadowy as the shadows seemed Airy nothing, as they deemed, These remain. Mary Coleridge, Egypt’s might is tumbled down […]
Intellectuel = celui qui se dédouble. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. Albert Camus Carnets, 1935
Skogene brant – men de flettet armene om hverandres hals som rosebuketter folk løp i ly han sa i hans kones hår var det skjul dekket av ett teppe hvisket de skamløse ord de forelskedes litani Når det ble svært ille sprang de inn i hverandres øyne og lukket dem hardt igjen så hardt at […]
Kaldt blått som en stein hvor vinger hvesses av opphøyde såre ujordiske engler skridende oppad glansens stige og over skyggenes blokker synker de langsomt inn i den innbilte himmel men kommer straks etter frem på himmelens annen side på øynenes annen side si ikke at det ikke er sant at det ikke fins engler nedsenket […]
Da min eldste bror kom hjem fra krigen hadde han en sølvstjerne i pannen og under stjernen en avgrunn en granatsplint traff ham ved Verdun eller kanskje Tannenberg (han husker ingen enkeltheter) han talte meget på mange tungemål men best syntes han om historiens språk inntil utmattelse kalte han sine falne kamerater på bena Roland […]
I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a Sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil-willers. Elizabeth I, speech to Parliamentary deputation at Richmond, 12 november 1586.
Go down yonder Gabriel put your foot on the land and sea now blow your trumpet boy until you hear from me There ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down there ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down when you hear that trumpet sound gonna get up out of the ground there ain’t […]
Man tends to regard the order he lives under as natural. The houses he passes on his way to work seem more like rocks rising out of the earth than like products of human hands. He considers the work he does in his office or factory as essential to the harmonious functioning of the world. […]
It was only towards the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and abstruse books of philosophy. Their bread, their work, their private lives began to depend on this or that decision in disputes […]
