Une condamnation de la vie de la part du vivant n’est finalement que le symptôme d’une espèce de vie déterminée : sans qu’on se demande en aucune façon si c’est à tort ou à raison. Il faudrait prendre position en dehors de la vie et la connaître d’autre part tout aussi bien que quelqu’un qui l’a traversée, que plusieurs et même tous ceux qui y ont passé, pour ne pouvoir que toucher au problème de la valeur de la vie : ce sont là des raisons suffisantes pour comprendre que ce problème est en dehors de notre portée. Si nous parlons de la valeur, nous parlons sous l’inspiration, sous l’optique de la vie : la vie elle-même nous force à déterminer des valeurs, la vie elle-même évolue par notre entremise lorsque nous déterminons des valeurs…
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Related En admettant que l’on ait compris ce qu’il y a de sacrilège dans un pareil soulèvement contre ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE La raison nous impose des limites bien trop étroites et nous invite à ne vivre que le connu - enco... C.G. JUNG Des jugements, des appréciations de la vie, pour ou contre, ne peuvent, en dernière instance, jama... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Il est incertain où la mort nous attende, attendons-la partout. La préméditation de la mort est p... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE L'objectivité, vécue dans ce rêve et dans ces visions, relève de l'individuation accomplie. Elle... C.G. JUNG Si, bien avant la puberté, et parfois même dès sa toute petite enfance, elle nous apparaît déj�... SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Cette qualité de la joie n’est-elle pas le fruit le plus précieux de la civilisation qui est nô... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY L'idée préconçue entrave et endommage la libre et pleine manifestation de la vie psychique, que j... C.G. JUNG La vie est un voyage solitaire et, être mariée n'y change rien. D'ailleurs je pense que le fait de... AGATHE COLOMBIER HOCHBERG On dit père grec, mère suisse-française... On me demande, mais alors, quelle est votre patrie? Je... GEORGES HALDAS Du reste, la majorité des orientalistes ne sont et ne veulent être que des érudits ; tant qu’il... RENé GUéNON Avec quelque spontanéité que nous obéissions à la voix qui nous dicte cette abnégation, nous se... ÉMILE DURKHEIM – Bah alors, c’est ce que je dis, avec la dotation qu’on a, ajouta Făneață puis il se leva... CăLIN TORSAN C’est ainsi que, par exemple, l’idée de l’Infini, qui est en réalité la plus positive de to... RENé GUéNON Nous consommons ressources naturelles, énergie et matières premières comme si elles étaient des ... MARCEL LéGER Si nous avons accordé à l'Amérique le privilège de l'histoire cumulative, n'est-ce pas, en effet... CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Comment des sociétés contemporaines, restées ignorantes de l'électricité et de la machine à va... CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Nous sommes tous des naufragés de l'âme vois-tu, la peinture n'est que le reflet de ce chagrin, an... OLIVIER WEBER En ce moment, je me sépare tant soit peu de moi-même et vais à la rencontre de la personne qui s'... VIRGINIA WOOLF La règle d'or de la conduite est la tolérance mutuelle, car nous ne penserons jamais tous de la m�... MAHATMA GANDHI Tu as tout à apprendre, tout ce qui ne s'apprend pas: la solitude, l'indifférence, la patience, le... GEORGES PEREC L'amour altruiste est la joie de partager la vie de ceux qui nous entourent, compagne, enfants, pare... MATTHIEU RICARD D’où viennent ces influences mystérieuses qui changent en découragement notre bonheur et notre ... GUY DE MAUPASSANT Quant à nous, nous respectons çà et là et nous épargnons partout le passé, pourvu qu'il consen... VICTOR HUGO Les tentatives faites pour connaître la richesse et l'originalité des cultures humaines, et pour l... CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Comment pouvaient-ils accepter que l'histoire de leur vie s'efface sous le souffle d'une bombe? Alor... JEAN BARBE Voilà bien la famille : même celui qui n'a pas sa place dans le monde, qui n'est ni célèbre ni r... ROBERT MUSIL Le premier symbole où nous reconnaissons l'humanité dans ses vestiges est la sépulture, et le tru... JACQUES LACAN Je savais qu'un afflux inespéré d'énergie l'avait levé de son lit, lui avait donné la force de ... MURIEL BARBERY Qu'est-ce que le roman, en effet, sinon cet univers où l'action trouve sa forme, où les mots de la... ALBERT CAMUS Qu’est-ce qui peut seul être notre doctrine ? — Que personne ne donne à l’homme ses qualité... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Nous savons qu'il advient dans nos vies des choses qui nous semblent totalement inconnues et totalem... C.G. JUNG À quoi bon écrire ? tout s'imprime en moi et c'est peut-être la pure poésie que de se laisser im... BLAISE CENDRARS Nous avons déjà parlé de la notion temporelle propre à chaque saison, l'été étant l'époque o... MARIE-CLAIRE DOLGHIN-LOYER Ce qui m'intéresse, c'est de savoir qui paie les Rédempteurs, pas de me débarrasser d'une poigné... GABRIEL KATZ [A propos du faux évolutionnisme] Il s'agit d'une tentative pour supprimer la diversité des cultur... CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Tel fut aussi le cas d'un Nietzsche, génie volcanique s'il en est ; ici encore - mais d'une façon ... FRITHJOF SCHUON Lorsque la sexualité disparaît, c'est le corps de l'autre qui apparaît, dans sa présence vagueme... MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ À s'accorder tant d'importance à soi-même, à s'agiter et à se débattre, on passe à côté de ... ETTY HILLESUM Il est également vrai qu'un échange est une transaction dans laquelle les deux contractants gagnen... ANTOINE DESTUTT DE TRACY On peut s’expliquer facilement par là un fait que nous avons eu fréquemment l’occasion de cons... RENé GUéNON La civilisation occidentale s'est entièrement tournée, depuis deux ou trois siècles, vers la mise... CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Le voyageur sait qu'il n'y a plus de bouts du monde. Ils sont tous atteints, balisés, photographié... JEAN-DIDIER URBAIN Refuser de faire quelque chose parce qu'on l'a déjà fait, parce qu'on a déjà vécu l'expérience... MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Le fameux discours de Saint-Just a ainsi tous les airs d'une étude théologique. "Louis [XVI] étra... ALBERT CAMUS Il défendait une théorie : les couples ne fréquentent pas les célibataires. D'abord parce que le... LAURENT BETTONI Je me rappelais que mon père avait coutume de dire que le but de la vie c'est de se préparer à re... WILLIAM FAULKNER J’ai déjà dit que la Communauté juive s’était chargée de recruter les travailleurs pour le ... BERNARD GOLDSTEIN Vivre sans lecture c'est dangereux, il faut se contenter de la vie, ça peut amener à prendre des r... MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ et de fines rides d'expression lui encadrent la bouche, parenthèses renfermant toute une vie de mot... JODI PICOULT Quand il mangeait des babas ou des éclairs, il se sentait coupable jusqu'à l'âme, à cause de la ... BOILEAU-NARCEJAC Le développement des connaissances préhistoriques et archéologiques tend à étaler dans l'espace... CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Le génie de l'oeuvre de Rowling réside non seulement dans son art de raconter des histoires, mais ... BASSHAM GREGORY La monnaie est souvent mythifiée, conçue comme magique et obscure. Son ambivalence fondamentale fa... EMMANUEL TODD À l’époque primordiale, l’homme était, en lui-même, parfaitement équilibré quant au compl�... RENé GUéNON Voyager, c'est vivre dans toute la plénitude du mot; c'est oublier le passé et l'avenir pour le pr... ALEXANDRE DUMAS Les données scientifiques et ésotériques montrent l´importance du sommeil et des rêves dans la ... MARIE-FRANCE BEL Bellegarrigue revient en France en février 1848, la veille des événements qui vont mener au renve... ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE Caustique ? Vous voulez dire : méchant ? Oui, je suis un peu méchant, dit Settembrini. Mon regret ... THOMAS MANN La porte s’est ouverte tout de suite et est allée co - gner contre le mur. J’ai perçu un claqu... SYLVIE BéRARD La variété des manifestations de la vie suffit à l'éblouissement. Il n’y a qu'à jeter l’oei... SYLVAIN TESSON La mémoire garde trace de chaque étape d'un voyage au long cours. Comme si le mouvement avait le r... SYLVAIN TESSON [...] Sans entrer encore dans la question de la « composition du continu », on voit donc que le no... RENé GUéNON L’ambition des principaux profita de ces circonstances pour perpétuer leurs charges dans leurs fa... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU La parenté de l'égyptien ancien et du berbère n'est plus à démontrer. Bien que les affinités l... MOHAMMED CHAFIK Mais elle sait que rien ne sera plus pareil, plus d'interdit, fini le frisson du mensonge qui écras... SYLVIE LE BIHAN Tu joues ? Oui, c'est ça, tu joues, tu t'amuses avec les gens qui t'entourent, c'est très clair à... LAURENT BETTONI A une époque de sa vie, il y avait de cela de nombreuses années, elle avait perdu sa foi en Dieu. ... BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD — Ce n'est pas en Egypte que je vais, répondit le Martinet. Je vais à la maison de la Mort. La M... OSCAR WILDE Vous avez déjà perdu quelqu'un de proche? [...] Vous n'avez jamais l'impression que ces êtres-là... LAURENT GAUDé Pour la première fois de ma vie, ce "moi" semblait se partager et la découverte d'une telle dualit... FRANçOISE SAGAN Dans une vie de bohème on peut faire de poème. Comment serait la vie sans la douce... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Tu vois, Jo, cette petite étoile au bout de la casserole, elle est comme toi, si tu l'enlèves, la ... PANCOL KATHERINE - J’aidais justement Ghezumi et Kassergh à bâter l’hypocras : du vin au miel avec de la cannel... CYRILLE MENDES La Culture et l’État — qu’on ne s’y trompe pas — sont antagonistes : « État civilisé �... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE C'est donc la proportion existante entre la somme des capitaux et celle des revenus qui détermine p... ADAM SMITH Un jour il y a plus de quatre milles années de cela, l'empereur Chen Nung voyageait avec son escort... MAXENCE FERMINE Personne n'est capable réellement de penser à personne, fût-ce dans le pire des malheurs. Car pen... ALBERT CAMUS Il n'y a que deux ou trois crimes à faire dans le monde, dit Curval, et, ceux-là faits, tout est d... MARQUIS DE SADE La classe des ouvriers modernes, qui ne vivent qu'à la condition de trouver du travail, et qui n'en... KARL MARX As-tu déjà été amoureux? C'est horrible non? Ca rend si vulnérable. Ca t'ouvre la poitrine et l... NEIL GAIMAN En effet: je mourais déjà. Je venais d'apprendre cette nouvelle horrible que tout humain apprend u... AMéLIE NOTHOMB N'ayez jamais peur de la vie, n'ayez jamais peur de l'aventure, faites confiance au hasard, à la ch... HENRY DE MONFREID Tu finiras sûrement par le trouver le truc qui leur fait si peur, à eux tous, à tous ces salauds ... LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE A qui écris-tu? -A toi. En fait, je ne t'écris pas vraiment, j'écris ce que j'ai envie de fa... ANNA GAVALDA Puis il réfléchit: la réalité ne coïncide habituellement pas avec les prévisions; avec une log... JORGE LUIS BORGES Le vin est la gaieté, dit-on ; comment cet océan de vin qui submerge la commune de Bercy n’égay... PAUL FéVAL PèRE La peur bloque la compréhension intelligente de la vie. JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Un mot exprime à lui seul ce double caractère, solitaire et inconnaissable, de toute chose au mond... CLéMENT ROSSET ô enfance du coeur humain qui ne vieillit jamais! voilà donc à quel degré de puérilité notre s... FRANçOIS-RENé DE CHATEAUBRIAND Il parvint à la reconnaitre au milieu du tumulte et, à travers les larmes de sa douleur irrémédi... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Lorsque, bien plus tard, au lycée, M. Laplane nous enseigna que la chouette était l'oiseau de Mine... MARCEL PAGNOL Les hommes extrêmement heureux, et les hommes extrêmement malheureux a , sont également portés �... MONTESQUIEU Est-ce que nous voyons la cent millième partie de ce qui existe ? Tenez, voici le vent, qui est la ... GUY DE MAUPASSANT Il y a des personnes à qui l'intention ne vaut rien, seul le hasard leur est propice. Le silence co... ERRI DE LUCA La tournée terminée, Tom et Roger pensèrent qu'après le succès de I Shot The Sheriff, ce serait... ERIC CLAPTON D'Adam nous sommes tous enfants,
La prove en est connue,
Et que tous, nos premier parents
... MARQUIS PHILIPPE EMANUEL DE COULANGES Ce n’est pas par goût de la souffrance que j’use mes semelles mais parce que la lenteur révèl... SYLVAIN TESSON La vie, c'est comme dessiner sans avoir de gomme pour effacer. MEISTER ECKHART Beaucoup de violences dans nos vies naissent de ce que nous nous empressons de tenter de résoudre... THOMAS D'ANSEMBOURG
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE My taste, which may be the opposite of a tolerant taste, is in this case very far from saying Yes in... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estima... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage to face what he already knows. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instinc... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Only ideas won by walking have any value. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of t... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experience... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own?...you must know what ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man? FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble educ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it;... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Succ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks f... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in ou... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first ti... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold? FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --he... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man is the cruelest animal. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would ke... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Invisible threads are the strongest ties. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty argumen... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a fun... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction – an intox... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerou... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that th... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Only sick music makes money today. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate indiv... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for t... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to com... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize t... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Actual philosophers ... are commanders and law-givers: they say FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. An... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 'Every man has his price . This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he ca... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs w... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the r... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among th... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, ind... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, bo... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who laughs best today, will also laughs last. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laug... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impote... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE