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

„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

„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.

„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

„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

„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

„If humanity were to lose its libraries, not only would it be deprived of certain treasures of art, certain spiritual riches, but, more important still, it would lose its recipes for living.“

—  Georges Duhamel

Zdroj: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), pp. 17-18

„Use your radio, but know how to distrust it—and do not let a day go by without reading and meditation if you want to save your soul, that soul which is yours and yours alone.“

—  Georges Duhamel

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

„The instinct to synthesize is a good one so long as it is concerned with elements that are capable of forming a whole. But today the man in the street is fed, morally as well as physically, on a mass of debris which has no resemblance to a nourishing diet. There is no method in this madness, which is the very negation of culture.“

—  Georges Duhamel

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

„The book is one of the springs of creative individualism, that individualism which, in these uncertain times, remains the guardian angel of human society. For five hundred years the book has been, for the solitary mind, an incomparable instrument of uplift and liberation.“

—  Georges Duhamel

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

„Radio, on the other hand, is now the chief agent of imperialism. It does not purify the spirit of man, does not, like the book, bring him back to the sanctuary of solitude, but throws him to the lions, subtly preparing his mind for the blood and chains of public sacrifice.“

—  Georges Duhamel

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

„Is it possible to create a maintain a true culture, a strong and flourishing culture, through the medium of pictoral and oral apparatus?“

—  Georges Duhamel

Zdroj: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 21