Georges Duhamel citáty

„Příroda je v lásce falešný hráč: přihrává hňupům nejlepší ženy.“

—  Georges Duhamel

„Láska, která se bojí překážek, je horší neúcty, horší nevěry, horší nelásky.“

—  Georges Duhamel

„Raději živé chyby než mrtvou dokonalost.“

—  Georges Duhamel

„Uchvátili jste do svých prstů doušek unikající vody; nezdá se, že by si toho oceán povšiml.“

—  Georges Duhamel

„Milovat předpokládá u ženy schopnost opisovat z deníku muže.“

—  Georges Duhamel

„Láska, která neriskuje svou zkázu, je neplodná.“

—  Georges Duhamel

„Větrnost spočívá v tom, že v malichernostech můžeme být proti sobě, ve velkých věcech při sobě.“

—  Georges Duhamel

„Nepoužívej klasických citátů - provádíš tím exhumaci babičky v přítomnosti milenky.“

—  Georges Duhamel

„Radio and cinema are daily playing a more and more important part, not only in the amusements of the twentieth-century man but also in the visible formation of his character.“

—  Georges Duhamel

Zdroj: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 20

„One of my friends whom I hold in high esteem admitted to me the other day that when he wants to work nowadays … he has to turn on his radio. The droning of the loudspeaker—so he says—puts him in a favorable frame of mind and ideas pour out. I cannot help but thinking that this is not the act of a true musician. For thought has a rhythm of its own, which must either clash with the rhythm from outside and lose energy, or else submit to the outer impulse in restless slavery.“

—  Georges Duhamel

Zdroj: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 34

„Books are the friends of solitude. They develop individuality and freedom. In solitary reading a man who is seeking himself has some chance of finding himself.“

—  Georges Duhamel

Zdroj: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 42

„In books may be found the recipes for manufacture of a steam-engine alongside the recipes for daily living—the prescriptions for the mind and the heart.“

—  Georges Duhamel

Zdroj: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 18

„What a teacher imparts by word of mouth is nothing in comparison with what he teaches us to get for ourselves from books.“

—  Georges Duhamel

Zdroj: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 43

„… a pastime for helots, a diversion for uneducated, wretched, worn-out creatures who are consumed by their worries, … a spectacle which requires no concentration and presupposes no intelligence,… which kindles no light in the heart and awakens no hope other than the ridiculous one of someday becoming a ‘star’ in Los Angeles.“

—  Georges Duhamel, kniha Scènes de la vie future

describing cinema, Scènes de la vie future (1930), p. 58

„M. André Mayer … made an astonishing confidence not long ago. “The laboratories,” he said, “are working at this moment with splendid results. In physics and biology, for example, we can predict new and very important discoveries. What is humanity going to do with the power which will soon be put into its hands? Humanity is not yet ready to receive this power. It is not in a state to make good use of it.” The events of the moment prove that this power, of which we know very little yet, and which is announced to us with such proper reserve, has little chance of serving the cause of man straight away. It will more probably be employed, or rather confiscated, for the benefit of the ambitious, the impudent, and the reckless.“

—  Georges Duhamel

Zdroj: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. xii

„It is an extraordinary thing that this civilization, which wears out our nerves and exacts an almost painful effort from us in all our doings, should be at great pains to spare the mass of people that intellectual effort which is the only measure of true culture.“

—  Georges Duhamel

Zdroj: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p.

„A book exhales a subtle odor of spirituality throughout the place it adorns.“

—  Georges Duhamel

Zdroj: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 19

„If the public gets out of the habit of reading they will not come back to it. We shall enter a new phase of our history from which there is no turning back.“

—  Georges Duhamel

Zdroj: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. ix

„For many people in the future, radio will take the place of an inner life.“

—  Georges Duhamel

Zdroj: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 35