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Maria Angelillo: I Mantra. Citazioni Preferite E Commento
Identification Number: 451
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La stessa forma assunta dalla maggior parte dei Tantra, e cioè quella di un dialogo fra Shiva e la dea, che interroga il dio come un discepolo farebbe con il suo maestro, dimostra la centralità della figura del guru in ambito tantrico. ^^Che questa interpretazione possa essere prevalsa e trovare il suo fondamento negli indirizzi e nella ortoprassi dell' Hinduismo scholastico, è possibile: e la mia inesistente esperienza sul terreno Indiano non mi permette di escluderlo nè punto nè poco.
Tuttavia, è anche noto come sia fatale avvedersi prima o poi «che lo Zen e i seguaci dello Zen erano due cose diverse» - e anzi io direi che non è possibile sostenere che ci si sarebbe davvero avvicinati almeno un poco allo Zen, se non si è fatta contestualmente questa scoperta: ovvero quella della incommensurabilità del dio rispetto al suo stesso tem... read more: click here Author: A Visitors: 7,420
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Oscar Wilde: The Soul Of Man (Under Socialism): Part 2
Identification Number: 450
Preview: Within the last few years two other adjectives, it may be mentioned, have been added to the very limited vocabulary of art- abuse that is at the disposal of the public. One is the word 'unhealthy,' the other is the word 'exotic.' The latter merely expresses the rage of the momentary mushroom against the immortal, entrancing, and exquisitely lovely orchid. It is a tribute, but a tribute of no importance. The word 'unhealthy,' however, admits of analysis. It is a rather interesting word. In fact, it is so interesting that the people who use it do not know what it means.
What does it mean? What is a healthy, or an unhealthy work of art? All terms that one applies to a work of art, provided that one applies them rationally, have reference to either its style or its subject, or to both together. From the point of view of style, a healthy work of art is one whose style recognises the beauty of the material it employs, be that material one of words or of bronze, of colour or of ivory, and ... read more: click here Author: A Visitors: 7,224
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Oscar Wilde: The Soul Of Man (Under Socialism): Part 1
Identification Number: 449
Preview: The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody. In fact, scarcely anyone at all escapes.
Now and then, in the course of the century, a great man of science, like Darwin; a great poet, like Keats; a fine critical spirit, like M. Renan; a supreme artist, like Flaubert, has been able to isolate himself, to keep himself out of reach of the clamorous claims of others, to stand 'under the shelter of the wall,' as Plato puts it, and so to realise the perfection of what was in him, to his own incomparable gain, and to the incomparable and lasting gain of the whole world. These, however, are exceptions. The majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism-- are forced, indeed, so to spoil them. They find themselves surrounded by hideous pove... read more: click here Author: A Visitors: 6,593
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Friedrich Schiller: Detached Reflections On Different Questions Of Aesthetics
Identification Number: 448
Preview: All the properties by which an object can become aesthetic, can be referred to four classes, which, as well according to their objective differences as according to their different relation with the subject, produce on our passive and active faculties pleasures unequal not only in intensity but also in worth; classes which also are of an unequal use for the end of the fine arts: they are the agreeable, the good, the sublime, and the beautiful.
Of these four categories, the sublime and the beautiful only belong properly to art. The agreeable is not worthy of art, and the good is at least not its end; for the aim of art is to please, and the good, whether we consider it in theory or in practice, neither can nor ought to serve as a means of satisfying the wants of sensuousness. The agreeable only satisfies the senses, and is distinguished thereby from the good, which only pleases the reason. The agreeable only pleases by its matter, for it is only matter that can affect the senses, ... read more: click here Author: A Visitors: 7,225
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Friedrich Schiller: Reflections On The Use Of The Vulgar Elements In Art Works
Identification Number: 447
Preview: I call vulgar (common) all that does not speak to the mind, of which all the interest is addressed only to the senses. There are, no doubt, an infinite number of things vulgar in themselves from their material and subject. But as the vulgarity of the material can always be ennobled by the treatment, in respect of art the only question is that relating to the vulgarity in form. A vulgar mind will dishonor the most noble matter by treating it in a common manner. A great and noble mind, on the contrary, will ennoble even a common matter, and it will do so by superadding to it something spiritual and discovering in it some aspect in which this matter has greatness. Thus, for example, a vulgar historian will relate to us the most insignificant actions of a hero with a scrupulousness as great as that bestowed on his sublimest exploit, and will dwell as lengthily on his pedigree, his costume, and his household as on his projects and his enterprises. He will relate those of his actions that ha... read more: click here Author: A Visitors: 6,778
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Friedrich Schiller: Of The Cause Of The Pleasure We Derive From Tragic Objects
Identification Number: 446
Preview: Whatever pains some modern aesthetics give themselves to establish, contrary to general belief, that the arts of imagination and of feeling have not pleasure for their object, and to defend them against this degrading accusation, this belief will not cease: it reposes upon a solid foundation, and the fine arts would renounce with a bad grace the beneficent mission which has in all times been assigned to them, to accept the new employment to which it is generously proposed to raise them. Without troubling themselves whether they lower themselves in proposing our pleasure as object, they become rather proud of the advantages of reaching immediately an aim never attained except mediately in other routes followed by the activity of the human mind. That the aim of nature, with relation to man, is the happiness of man,--although he ought of himself, in his moral conduct, to take no notice of this aim,-- is what, I think, cannot be doubted in general by any one who admit... read more: click here Author: A Visitors: 5,895
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Friedrich Schiller: On The Tragic Art
Identification Number: 445
Preview: The state of passion in itself, independently of the good or bad influence of its object on our morality, has something in it that charms us. We aspire to transport ourselves into that state, even if it costs us some sacrifices. You will find this instinct at the bottom of all our most habitual pleasures. As to the nature itself of the affection, whether it be one of aversion or desire, agreeable or painful, this is what we take little into consideration. Experience teaches us that painful affections are those which have the most attraction for us, and thus that the pleasure we take in an affection is precisely in an inverse ratio to its nature. It is a phenomenon common to all men, that sad, frightful things, even the horrible, exercise over us an irresistible seduction, and that in presence of a scene of desolation and of terror we feel at once repelled and attracted by two equal forces. Suppose the case be an assassination. Then every one crowds round the narrator and shows a... read more: click here Author: A Visitors: 6,325
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Rainer Maria Rilke: Lettere A Un Giovane Poeta. Citazioni Preferite In Italiano
Identification Number: 441
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Non vi lasciate dominare dall' ironia (...) e se vi sentite troppo in confidenza con essa, rivolgetevi allora a grandi e gravi oggetti, davanti ai quali essa si fa piccola e inerme. Cercate la profondità delle cose: fin laggiù l'ironia non scende mai - e quando sfiorate così il margine della grandezza, saggiate nello stesso tempo se questo modo di vedere nasca da una necessità del vostro essere. Ché sotto l'influsso di cose gravi essa o cadrà da voi (se è qualcosa d'accidentale) o s' irrobustirà (se veramente v'appartiene come innata) a serio strumento e s'allineerà nell' ordine dei mezzi, con cui voi dovete elaborare la vostra arte. ^^Questa apparente indisposizione di Rilke verso l'ironia, o il keep smiling, non credo abbia tanto la natura di una avversione preconcetta, quanto l'intenzione di saggiare una vocazione che troppo facilmente, allorquando falsa o parzialmente inautentica, si può presentare sotto le troppo convenienti e facili vesti del talento umor... read more: click here Author: A Visitors: 8,644
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Ananda K. Coomaraswamy: La Danza Di Siva: Citazioni Preferite In Italiano
Identification Number: 439
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L' evoluzione, il sentiero della ricerca, il pravrittimarga, è caratterizzato dalla autoaffermazione; il movimento verso l'interno, l'involuzione, il sentiero del ritorno, il nivrittimarga, dalla progressiva realizzazione del Sè. (...) I brahamani evitano l'uso teologico dei termini "bene" e "male", e preferiscono parlare di "conoscenza" e "ignoranza" (vidya e avidya) e delle tre qualità di sattva, rajas e tamas. (...) Può forse esserci realizzazione del Sè laddove non c'è mai stata autoaffermazione? (...) I desideri repressi generano pestilenza. ^^Sussiste un evidente portato freudiano nella ultima osservazione, poichè se essa pertiene a pieno titolo ai più caratteristici insegnamenti canonici sia vedici che buddhisti, essa si profila anche ed in tutto e per tutto come una conclusione psicoanalitica ante-litteram ovvero come una constatazione metafisica tramandataci da epoche assai remote e destinata... read more: click here Author: A Visitors: 7,241
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Alberto Savinio: Maupassant E "L' Altro". Citazioni Preferite.
Identification Number: 434
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l'uomo di qualche levatura non è "completo" se non è duca o eccellenza, conte o commendatore, professore o cavaliere; e se tale egli non è viene a trovarsi nella condizione di quel personaggio di Wells che aveva perduto il suo peso specifico, e per timore di partire in cielo come un palloncino da bambini, usciva di casa con una valigia per mano piena di sassi.^^Il Wells cui si riferisce è Herbert George Wells.
Questa osservazione dei titoli professionali, nobiliari od accademici che vengono impiegati per conferire peso a chi altrimenti non ne ha e impedirgli di vaporizzarsi in cielo con conseguenze non maggiori di quelle d'una voluta di fumo, mi ricorda la osservazione di alcuni testi Zen (mi pare riportata da Suzuki): «Un uomo vero senza titoli». In pochi si appagano di possedere questo come "titolo" - quasi che non fosse possibile (e ... read more: click here Author: A Visitors: 10,078
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