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“soy una persona anticuada que cree que leer libros es el pasatiempo más hermoso que la humanidad ha creado.”
― Lecturas no obligatorias: Prosas
― Lecturas no obligatorias: Prosas
“Estar en casa es tremendamente peligroso. A cada paso que damos hay peligro de muerte o mutilación. Incluso me atrevería a decir que cuantas más comodidades civilizadoras guardamos en casa, mayores son las posibilidades de que nos suceda una catástrofe. Vivir en una caverna era más seguro que todo eso, claro, siempre y cuando no irrumpiera en ella un tigre dientes de sable en ausencia de la gente que se encargaba de cazar.”
― Lecturas no obligatorias: Prosas
― Lecturas no obligatorias: Prosas
“¡Cuántos libros se quita la gente de en medio con ocasión de las mudanzas! ¡Qué sería de la profesión de librero de viejo si la gente no cambiase de domicilio! Los dos tercios de mis fondos proceden de los que se mudan; el resto de los que, una vez leído un libro, se desprenden de él, o de los que, habiendo empezado una tesis, no quieren distraerse con libros que no son de su especialidad. A fin de cuentas, a poca gente le gusta conservar los libros.”
― La curiosidad prohibida. Leyendo "Las mil y una noches" (Noema nº 93)
― La curiosidad prohibida. Leyendo "Las mil y una noches" (Noema nº 93)
“The idea of mixing pigments and gum arabic together to make watercolor paint is very old. But at the beginning of the nineteenth century the English chemists W. Winsor and H. Newton were the first to add glycerin to the blend to make the paints maintain a semi-moist consistency when stored in paintboxes.”
― Urban Watercolor Sketching: A Guide to Drawing, Painting, and Storytelling in Color
― Urban Watercolor Sketching: A Guide to Drawing, Painting, and Storytelling in Color
“Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battle. The discovery of a new scientific truth will be more important than the squabbles of diplomats. Even the newspapers of our own day are beginning to treat scientific discoveries and the creation of fresh philosophical concepts as news. The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.
Progress along such lines will be impossible while nations persist in the savage practice of killing each other off. I inherited from my father, an erudite man who labored hard for peace, an ineradicable hatred of war.”
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Progress along such lines will be impossible while nations persist in the savage practice of killing each other off. I inherited from my father, an erudite man who labored hard for peace, an ineradicable hatred of war.”
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