Saramago, opiniones
José Saramago, Premio Nobel de Literatura 1998. Recopilación de entrevistas, declaraciones y pequeños fragmentos de sus libros.
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Marinaleda' s policy : common sense and common welfare
Cooperativa Marinaleda
To Capitalist Folly, Town in Spain Offers Reply. The New York Times. By VICTORIA BURNETT
Published: April 23, 2009
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
quotes by Oscar Wilde
QUOTES by Oscar Wilde. Source
Men
"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."
"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."
"Men become old, but they never become good."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
"I delight in men over seventy, they always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. "
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"How many men there are in modern life who would like to see their past burning to white ashes before them!"
-- “An Ideal Husband”
"A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
"Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors and all the bachelors live like married men."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
"I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
Women
"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
"Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood."
-- “The Sphinx Without a Secret”
"It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
"I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!"
-- “An Ideal Husband”
"I don't think there is a woman in the world who would not be a little flattered if one made love to her. It is that which makes women so irresistibly adorable."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth, I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"Women give to men the very gold of their lives. But they invariably want it back in such very small change."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
"I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
"I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
People
"People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately."
-- Letter from Paris, dated May 1900
"The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner of later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature."
-- “The Decay of Lying”
"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing."
-- “The Soul of Man Under Socialism”
"Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification."
-- “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime”
"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Life
"Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it."
-- “Vera, of The Nihilists”
"The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"Life is never fair...And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."
-- “An Ideal Husband”
"You must not find symbols in everything you see. It makes life impossible."
-- “Salome”
"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."
-- “The Duchess of Padua”
"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
-- “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime”
Love
"Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
-- “An Ideal Husband”
"A kiss may ruin a human life."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
"Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
"Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Men
"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."
"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."
"Men become old, but they never become good."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
"I delight in men over seventy, they always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. "
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"How many men there are in modern life who would like to see their past burning to white ashes before them!"
-- “An Ideal Husband”
"A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
"Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors and all the bachelors live like married men."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
"I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
Women
"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
"Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood."
-- “The Sphinx Without a Secret”
"It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
"I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!"
-- “An Ideal Husband”
"I don't think there is a woman in the world who would not be a little flattered if one made love to her. It is that which makes women so irresistibly adorable."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth, I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"Women give to men the very gold of their lives. But they invariably want it back in such very small change."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
"I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
"I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
People
"People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately."
-- Letter from Paris, dated May 1900
"The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner of later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature."
-- “The Decay of Lying”
"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing."
-- “The Soul of Man Under Socialism”
"Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification."
-- “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime”
"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Life
"Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it."
-- “Vera, of The Nihilists”
"The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"Life is never fair...And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."
-- “An Ideal Husband”
"You must not find symbols in everything you see. It makes life impossible."
-- “Salome”
"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."
-- “The Duchess of Padua”
"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
-- “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime”
Love
"Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
-- “An Ideal Husband”
"A kiss may ruin a human life."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”
"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
"Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
"Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Monday, July 12, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Don Quijote de la Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quijote de la Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes. (Centro Virtual Cervantes)
Saturday, June 19, 2010
José Saramago (16 november 1922- 18 june 2010)
José Saramago, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1998 has died. He was wrote one of the books that impressed me most, called Ensaio sobre a Cegueira/ Ensayo sobre la Cegera/ Blindness (1995). I read this book in Portuguese when I was in high school. I began to read it slowly to understand the language and the meanings of the text. Once I could read more quickly, I still remained reading it slowly to prolong the pleasure.Years after, in 1998, I could attend a conference he gave in the XVI Semana Gallega de Filosofía. I remember very well his soft and strong voice, the nice and comfortable atmosphere that he created in that crowed theater, where people of all the ages shared the most small space,on the floor, sharing seats...All we seemed hungry, hungry to listen and to "see" by his words and the meanings we could obtain from them.
Plot of the novel in wikipedia
parragraphs of Ensaio sobre a cegueira in Portuguesse.
“Provavelmente, só num mundo de cegos as coisas serão o que verdadeiramente são”
“O medo cega, disse arapariga dos óculos escuros, São palavras certas, já éramos cegos no momento em que cegámos, o medo nos cegou, o medo nos fará
continuar cegos, Quem está a falar, perguntou o médico, Um
cego, respondeu a voz, sou um cego, é o que temos aqui. Então
perguntou o velho da venda preta, Quantos cegos serão precisos para
fazer uma cegueira. Ninguém lhe soube responder.”
“ (…) o mundo está cheio de cegos vivos, Eu acho que vamos morrer todos, é
uma questão de tempo, Morrer sempre foi uma questão de tempo, disse o médico,
Mas morrer só porque se está cego, não deve haver pior maneira de morrer,
Morremos de doenças, de acidentes, de acasos, E agora morreremos também porque
estamos cegos, quero dizer, morreremos de cegueira e de cancro, de cegueira e de
tuberculose, de cegueira e de sida, de cegueira e de enfarte, as doenças poderão
ser diferentes de pessoa para pessoa, mas o que verdadeiramente agora nos está a
matar é a cegueira, Não somos imortais, não podemos escapar à morte, mas ao
menos devíamos não ser cegos, disse a mulher do médico, Como, se esta cegueira é
concreta e real, disse o médico, Não tenho a certeza, disse a mulher”
“Por que foi que cegámos, Não sei, talvez um dia se chegue a conhecer a
razão, Queres que te diga o que penso, Diz, Penso que não cegámos, penso
que estamos cegos, Cegos que vêem, Cegos que, vendo, não vêem.”
BLINDNESS, By Jose Saramago. Comments of Bob Corbett, October 2001
Also appended remarks from George Snedeker, December 2001
Jose Saramago's reaction when he first saw the movie Blidness (2008), based on his novel, "Ensaio sobre a cegueira" (1995) and directed by Fernando Meirelles
Plot of the novel in wikipedia
parragraphs of Ensaio sobre a cegueira in Portuguesse.
“Provavelmente, só num mundo de cegos as coisas serão o que verdadeiramente são”
“O medo cega, disse arapariga dos óculos escuros, São palavras certas, já éramos cegos no momento em que cegámos, o medo nos cegou, o medo nos fará
continuar cegos, Quem está a falar, perguntou o médico, Um
cego, respondeu a voz, sou um cego, é o que temos aqui. Então
perguntou o velho da venda preta, Quantos cegos serão precisos para
fazer uma cegueira. Ninguém lhe soube responder.”
“ (…) o mundo está cheio de cegos vivos, Eu acho que vamos morrer todos, é
uma questão de tempo, Morrer sempre foi uma questão de tempo, disse o médico,
Mas morrer só porque se está cego, não deve haver pior maneira de morrer,
Morremos de doenças, de acidentes, de acasos, E agora morreremos também porque
estamos cegos, quero dizer, morreremos de cegueira e de cancro, de cegueira e de
tuberculose, de cegueira e de sida, de cegueira e de enfarte, as doenças poderão
ser diferentes de pessoa para pessoa, mas o que verdadeiramente agora nos está a
matar é a cegueira, Não somos imortais, não podemos escapar à morte, mas ao
menos devíamos não ser cegos, disse a mulher do médico, Como, se esta cegueira é
concreta e real, disse o médico, Não tenho a certeza, disse a mulher”
“Por que foi que cegámos, Não sei, talvez um dia se chegue a conhecer a
razão, Queres que te diga o que penso, Diz, Penso que não cegámos, penso
que estamos cegos, Cegos que vêem, Cegos que, vendo, não vêem.”
BLINDNESS, By Jose Saramago. Comments of Bob Corbett, October 2001
Also appended remarks from George Snedeker, December 2001
Jose Saramago's reaction when he first saw the movie Blidness (2008), based on his novel, "Ensaio sobre a cegueira" (1995) and directed by Fernando Meirelles
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Richard Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007)
Richard Rorty, Edited by Charles Guignon & David R. Hiley, 2003
Rorty, R. Objectivity, Relativism and Truth. Philosophical Papers (1991)
Richard Rorty (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
wikipedia
Rorty, Richard Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, 1979
Rorty, Richard (1989) Contingency, Irony and Solidarity
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