books: essays aphorisms     books:     Essays aphorisms      Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings Walter Benjamin Schocken, 1986 A Portable Benjamin There is much to love about Walter Benjamin. His is a supple, syncretic, synthetic mind, and his prose just sings-even in translation. Because Benjamin roamed about in whole territorities of thought, it's nearly impossible to draw together a representative selection ...             The Quotable Osler (Medical Humanities) (Medical Humanities) (Medical Humanities) William Osler American College of Physicians, 2003 A must for "Osler Lovers" I know three of the medical doctors (All members of the Osler Society) who assembled these choice selections uttered and (mostly) penned by Sir William Osler . . who seems to have felt strongly on only one controversial subject = that men seldom did any worthwhile ...             The Quotable Osler, Deluxe Edition Mark, M.d. Silverman, ... American College of Physicians, 2008 This newly revised and updated deluxe leather bound edition features the addition of fifty new quotes, forty of which have never before been published, as well as a chronology of Osler s life! The Quotable Osler is the ideal resource for those seeking an apt quote for an article, presentation, or for those wanting to sample Osler s ...             The Waste Books (New York Review Books Classics) Georg Christoph Lichtenberg NYRB Classics, 2000 Refreshing Lichtenberg truly observes and thinks, forgive my cliched phrase, with a child's wonder. Thinking and Observing are, for him, downright entertainment not, as for most of us, labour-work. Even such strict critics as Schopenhauer and Nietszche have to off-hat to this ...             On Love/Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays A. R. Orage Weiser Books, 1998 Conscious Love and Mental Gymnastics Alfred Richard Orage (1873-1934) was the well known editor of 'The New Age', a literary magazine in London, when he started correspondence with P.D. Ouspensky in 1914, eventually met him in London in 1921 and moved to France in 1922 to study with G. I. Gurdjieff at The ...             Maxims (Penguin Classics) La Rochefoucauld Penguin Classics, 1982 The 'Maxims' as a Classic of 'Crooked Wisdom.' The famous Indian classic, Kautilya's 'Arthasastra,' a treatise which deals with the attainment of worldly ends, distinguishes between two kinds of wisdom - Straight and Crooked. To the former belong (to use Western examples) such works as 'The Imitation of Christ' ...             On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript Robert K. Merton Harcourt, 1985 Academia Transfixed 'On the Shoulders of Giants' (which shall hereafter be referred to as OTSOG) is the quintessential study of the nature of academicism. It is thinly disguised as a dissertation into the origin (and originality) of Newton's famous aphorism 'If I have seen farther, it is ...             Oxford Book of Aphorisms Oxford University Press, USA, 2003 An excellent collection Like most collections of aphorisms this one is rich in helpful thoughts. These thoughts inspire and give birth to new thoughts. 1) Aphorisms of others ideally inspire aphorisms of our own. 2) Aphorisms help make our minds more interesting. 3) It is senseless to read ...             Essays and Aphorisms (The Penguin Classics) Arthur Schopenhauer Penguin Classics, 1973 with persistance and arrogance, brain and bile ... Schopenhauer's father committed suicide. Son Arthur had been very devoted to his father Heinrich Floris. The high-sensitive son could not deal with the fact, that his mother Johanna had preferred to talk with Goethe in her Weimar Literary Salon instead of helping her ...             ESSAYS IN THE HISTORY OF LIBERTY (Selected Writings of Lord Acton) JOHN EMERICH E DALBERG-ACTON Liberty Fund Inc., 1985             Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms Karl Kraus University Of Chicago Press, 1990 Wit and Wisdom For curmudgeons, the best part of the book -- which is largely comprised of six sections of aphorisms, 26 pages of Introduction, and three pages of bibliography -- is the last section entitled "Lord, forgive them...." The title of this section is based on the last one ...             ESSAYS IN THE STUDY AND WRITING OF HISTORY (Selected Writings of Lord Acton, Vol 2) JOHN EMERICH E DALBERG-ACTON Liberty Fund Inc., 1986 Volume 2 brings together Acton's distinguished writings on history. Included is his famous Inaugural Lecture at Cambridge: The Study of History. Writing on many diverse topics, Acton argues that history demonstrates progress and unity through the story of liberty and that the study of history should be impartial, based on archival research, and ...             Aphorisms (Green Integer 52) Cýýsar Vallejo Green Integer, 2002 Pensees, quips, epigrams and notes from the master poet. Brief to very brief poetic meditations on a variety of subjects through the prism of the master Latin American poet's heavy heart: various pointed comments follow a trip to the Soviet Union. In an excellent translation by poet Stephen Kessler.             Weird Emptiness: Essays and Aphorisms Alex Stein Wings Press, 2007 In highly polished prose filled with humor and perception, this individual take on what it means to be a writer offers insight into aesthetics, metaphysics, ethics, and logic. The witty aphorisms and essays draw from the author?s influences?Blake, Cervantes, Kierkegaard, Neitzsche, Baudelaire, and Kafka?and comment on the writing process. This ...             A Companion to Aphorisms & Quotations for the Surgeon Tfm Publishing, 2008 Since its publication, about four years ago, the best-seller, "Aphorisms & Quotations for the Surgeon", has found its place in surgeons' personal and public libraries. Surgeons are using the book to 'decorate' their lectures or manuscripts with relevant smart or entertaining entries; some like to quote from the book during teaching rounds or ...          products you might be interested in search for books autobiographical, half-truths, one-and-a-half, psychological, quotations, reflections      toavi.com    web we recommend with persistance and arrogance, brain and bile ... randomly chosen book: IOU