Georges Duhamel citáty
Georges Duhamel
Datum narození: 30. červen 1884
Datum úmrtí: 13. duben 1966
Další jména: Georges Benjamin Duhamel
Georges Duhamel byl francouzský spisovatel a myslitel, představitel konzervativního směru francouzské kultury.
Občanským povoláním byl lékař a výrazně ho ovlivnila zkušenost frontového chirurga za první světové války. Roku 1906 spoluzaložil uměleckou skupinu Abbaye de Créteil. Roku 1935 byl zvolen členem Francouzské akademie. Wikipedia
Citáty Georges Duhamel
„I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.“
— Georges Duhamel, kniha Scènes de la vie future
Scènes de la vie future (1930), p. 52
„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.“
Zdroj: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 20
„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.“
Zdroj: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. ix
„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.“
Zdroj: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 18
„… 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
„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.“
Zdroj: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. vii
„For many people in the future, radio will take the place of an inner life.“
Zdroj: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 35
„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.“
Zdroj: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 35
„Culture is at once the expression and the reward of an effort, and any system of civilization which tends to relax effort will suffer a corresponding depreciation of culture.“
Zdroj: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 22
„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.“
Zdroj: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 42
„… the cinema and the radio and the effect they have had in weakening the impulse to spiritual effort“
Zdroj: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 24
