Cétait un rendez-vous |
On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck s...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:57:00 GMT |
Giordano Bruno |
"a man of universal intelligence and well versed in all sciences, but without a trace of religion." Twelve miles from Naples, on the northeastern slope of Mount Vesuvius, stands the...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:06:00 GMT |
Untitled |
I understand that there are some gifts we are not given twice, that one day I might regret everything that I had not done and had not lived now, when all things are possible.
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:23:00 GMT |
Georges Dumézil’s "Mythe et Épopée" |
Mythe et épopée (1971, 1973),1 that is "myth and epic," is a less apt title for volumes II and III than it was for the first volume. The first volume was primarily concerned with studying how e...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:20:00 GMT |
(More) Hierophanies |
"&Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane . . . In his encounters with the Sacred, man experiences a reality that do...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:04:00 GMT |
Reign of Quantity |
René Guénon and the "Reign of Quantity" René Guénon was a man who did not like biography, he had contempt for the cult of personality and believed that the age-old wisdom should stand or fall by its...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:00:00 GMT |
Ride the Tiger |
RIDE THE TIGER What does it mean to ride the tiger? Imagine a forest, dark, wet and foreboding. You hear a noise and see a huge tiger running towards you, slobbering, growling and obviously hungry....
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:56:00 GMT |
VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT* |
VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT* {Invoked or not invoked, the god is present} "&I could not say that I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something th...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:25:00 GMT |
The Secret Rose |
"&Far-off, most secret, and inviolate Rose, Enfold me in my hour of hours& The hour of thy great wind of love and hate. When shall the stars be blown about the sky, Like the sparks blown out ...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:03:00 GMT |
Portuguese slang expression origins |
Jean-Maurice-Baptiste Loison (1771-1816) was a Napoleonic General of Division, serving with distinction in Italy, Austerlitz, Portugal, Spain, Russia and Germany. A very brave soldier, he became...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:19:00 GMT |
