Frases de Georges Duhamel

„Si la civilización material no está primero en el corazón de los hombres, es inútil esperar que ella exista.“

—  Georges Duhamel

„Si quieres hallar en cualquier parte amistad, dulzura y poesía, llévalas contigo.“

—  Georges Duhamel

Fuente: Sarmiento, J. M. Mil y un frases célebres. Editorial Planet House Editorials, 2016.

„El horror a la vida social es una prueba de inteligencia, de tendencia a la espiritualidad.“

—  Georges Duhamel

Fuente: Diccionario de citas. Colaborador Luis Señor. Editorial Espasa Calpe, 2007. ISBN 978-84-6702-374-9. p. 485.

„Cuando una mujer ama a un hombre se le conoce enseguida: no sabe hablar de otra cosa.“

—  Georges Duhamel

Fuente: Bol Cecilio; OLLIRUM LEUGIM. Mis conversaciones con ellos. Editor Bubok 2010. ISBN 978-84-9009-634-5. p. 371.

„Nunca he engañado a mi mujer. No es ningún mérito: la amo.“

—  Georges Duhamel

Fuente: Gil, Vanessa. Las perlas de Sofía: citas para estudiosos de la vida. Editor Corona Borealis, 2016. ISBN 978-84-1546-528-7. p. 193.

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

—  Georges Duhamel

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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

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

„I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.“

—  Georges Duhamel, libro Scènes de la vie future

Scènes de la vie future (1930), p. 52

„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.“

—  Georges Duhamel

Fuente: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 22

„… the cinema and the radio and the effect they have had in weakening the impulse to spiritual effort“

—  Georges Duhamel

Fuente: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 24