„Tengo demasiado respeto a la idea de un Dios como para hacerlo responsable de un mundo tan absurdo.“
Fuente: Citado en Rius. Herejes, ateos y malpensados. Editorial Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2014. ISBN 978-60-7312-496-6. p. 57.
Frases de Georges Duhamel
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Georges Duhamel
Fecha de nacimiento: 30. Junio 1884
Fecha de muerte: 13. Abril 1966
Otros nombres: Georges Benjamin Duhamel
Georges Duhamel, nació en París, Francia, el 30 de junio de 1884 y falleció en Valmondois, Seine-et-Oise, Francia, el 13 de abril de 1966.
Escritor y poeta francés. Famoso a partir de su Crónica de los Pasquier, fue elegido miembro de la Academia Francesa en 1935, de la que fue secretario a perpetuidad entre 1944 y 1946. Luego fue presidente y uno muy activo en lo tocante a la renovación de la Alianza Francesa de posguerra. Georges Duhamel es también el padre del célebre compositor francés Antoine Duhamel. Wikipedia
Frases Georges Duhamel
„Si quieres hallar en cualquier parte amistad, dulzura y poesía, llévalas contigo.“
Fuente: Sarmiento, J. M. Mil y un frases célebres. Editorial Planet House Editorials, 2016.
„Nunca he engañado a mi mujer. No es ningún mérito: la amo.“
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.
„El horror a la vida social es una prueba de inteligencia, de tendencia a la espiritualidad.“
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.“
Fuente: Bol Cecilio; OLLIRUM LEUGIM. Mis conversaciones con ellos. Editor Bubok 2010. ISBN 978-84-9009-634-5. p. 371.
„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 My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.“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
„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.“
Fuente: 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.“
Fuente: 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.“
Fuente: 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, libro 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.“
Fuente: 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.“
Fuente: 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.“
Fuente: 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.“
Fuente: 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.“
Fuente: 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“
Fuente: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 24
„What a teacher imparts by word of mouth is nothing in comparison with what he teaches us to get for ourselves from books.“
Fuente: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 43
„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.“
Fuente: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 34
