Frases de 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.

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

—  Georges Duhamel

„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.

„Tengo demasiado respeto a la idea de un Dios como para hacerlo responsable de un mundo tan absurdo.“

—  Georges Duhamel

Fuente: Citado en Rius. Herejes, ateos y malpensados. Editorial Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2014. ISBN 978-60-7312-496-6. p. 57.

„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.

„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

„… 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

„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

„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.“

—  Georges Duhamel

Fuente: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 34

„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

„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

„Aristocracy of the mind … is the only true aristocracy in my opinion. It is the essence, the very life of a well-built society.“

—  Georges Duhamel

Fuente: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 41

„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.

„When I say, “Beware of the radio if you want to improve your mind,” … I am warning the public against their worst enemy, conformity.“

—  Georges Duhamel

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

„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

„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

„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.“

—  Georges Duhamel

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

„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

„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