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VsebinaLJUBEZEN ......................................................... 9RESNICA ..........................................................12ŽIVLJENJE........................................................16MODROST.........................................................20ČLOVEK ...........................................................22ŽENSKA ...........................................................31SMRT ..............................................................34SVOBODA .........................................................38PRIJATELJSTVO .................................................41USODA ............................................................43ZLOBA, KRUTOST ...............................................46DENAR ............................................................47NESMRTNOST ....................................................49VERA, RELIGIJA..................................................50BOG ...............................................................52SREČA.............................................................53TRPLJENJE, NESREČNOST .....................................54POLICIJA..........................................................54POLITIKA .........................................................55DEMOKRACIJA ...................................................59DRŽAVA...........................................................60DRŽAVNIK, DIPLOMAT ..........................................61ČAST ..............................................................62URADNOST .......................................................63SUŽENJSTVO .....................................................64REVŠČINA, BOGASTVO..........................................65KONSISTENTNOST ...............................................68ŠOLA, IZOBRAŽEVANJE.........................................67

OPTIMIZEM, PESIMIZEM.........................................69POŠTENOST, ISKRENOST .......................................70LAŽ ................................................................71SLAVA .............................................................72HEROJSTVO ......................................................73VOJNA ............................................................74ZGODOVINA ......................................................77STRAH ............................................................80MAŠČEVANJE, JEZA, NASILJE, SOVRAŠTVO.................82ZAKONI, PRAVILA ...............................................84PRAVICA ..........................................................87MNENJE...........................................................88UPANJE ...........................................................90ZNANOST .........................................................91TALENT, GENIJ ..................................................94GLASBA ...........................................................97ZDRAVNIK ........................................................98STROKOVNJAK...................................................99LITERATURA ................................................... 100ALKOHOL, ODVISNOST ....................................... 102MATEMATIKA................................................... 103POEZIJA ........................................................ 104UMETNOST ..................................................... 106NOVINARSTVO ................................................. 107MLADOST, STAROST .......................................... 108POROKA, ZAKONSKO ŽIVLJENJE ............................ 109OGLAŠEVANJE ................................................. 112DOMIŠLJIJA .................................................... 113OPOMBE ........................................................ 114

LJUBEZENLjubezen je modrost bedakov in norost modrecev.Samuel Johnson 1Kdor se boji ljubezni, se boji življenja, in kdor se bojiživljenja, je že na tričetrt mrtev.Bertrand Russell 2Kjer vlada ljubezen, ni potrebe po moči, kjer paprevladuje moč, manjka ljubezni. Sta senci ena druge.Carl Gustav Jung 3Za večino ljudi izkušnja ljubezni ne pomeni ničposebnega.Boris Pasternak 4Ljubiti, pomeni, da ti ni treba nikoli reči, da ti je žal.Erich Segal 5Večnost je zaljubljena v izdelovanje časa.William Blake 69

Brez ljubezni so ljudje le tujci, in obrazi le galerije slikin govorjenje le prazno pozvanjanje činel.Francis Bacon 7Kdor se upa ljubiti, mora znati tudi trpeti.Anthony Trollope 8Najbolj nas lahko prizadanejo tisti, ki jih ljubimo.Francis Beaumont 9Podoba, ki si jo poskušam ustvariti o sebi, da bi se imelrad, je precej drugačna od podobe, ki jo poskušamustvariti o sebi drugim, da bi me imeli radi.Wystan Hugh Auden 10Življenje je podobno ljubezni – vsi razumski razlogi soproti njej, vsi zdravi vzgibi pa njej v prid.Samuel Butler 11Ljubezen, kakršno pozna današnja družba, ni nič drugegakot izmenjava dveh fantazij in stik dveh teles.Nicolas-Sébastien Chamfort 12Ljubezen je kot ošpice; vsi jih moramo preboleti.Jerome K. Jerome 1310

Ljubezen primitivcev ni dosti boljša od ljubezni odličnihgospe. Nevednost in prostodušnost sta lahko enakoutrujajoči kot koketnost.Mihail Lermontov 14Ni je bolj iskrene ljubezni, kot je ljubezen do hrane.George Bernard Shaw 15Z ljubeznijo je enako kot z drugim razkošjem. Dokler sije ne moreš privoščiti, nimaš do nje nikakršne pravice.Anthony Trollope 16Ljubim veličastnost človeškega trpljenja.Alfred de Vigny 17Bil sem otrok in ona bila je otrok,V tem kraljestvu ob morju;A ljubila sva se z ljubeznijo, ki bila je več kot ljubezen –Jaz in moja Annabel Lee.Edgar Allan Poe 18Odsotnost je za ljubezen to, kar je za ogenj veter;majhnega ugasne, a razplamti velikega.De Bussy-Rabutin 1911

RESNICAVse velike resnice se začenejo kot blasfemije.George Bernard Shaw 20Popolnih resnic ni; vse resnice so le polresnice. Čeverjamemo, da so popolne, smo priklicali hudiča.Alfred North Whitehead 21»Kaj je resnica?« je rekel posmehljivo Pilat in odšel, neda bi počakal na odgovor.Francis Bacon 22Osvobajoče resnice ljudje najraje preslišijo.Herbert Agar 23Če desetletje za desetletjem ljudje ne smejo govoritiresnice, se človeški um tako spremeni, da lažje prepoznamarsovca kot sočloveka.Aleksander Solženitsin 24Vsi imajo resnico na ustih, a le redki v srcih.George Berkeley 2512

Resnice nikoli ne govori tisti, ki hoče nekaj imeti.Elizabeth Bowen 26Kdor z vsem svojim bitjem verjame, da resnica obstaja,ima dušo mučenika in razum advokata.Walter Bagehot 27Resnica obstaja, izumljati je treba le laži.Georges Braque 28Na svetu so večinoma bedaki in prevaranti; tako eni kotdrugi so neozdravljivi nasprotniki resnice.George Villiers 29Resnica je kot bakla: bolj ko jo treseš, bolj gori.William Hamilton 30Resnica je pokrajina brez poti. Ne moreš se ji približatipo nobeni poti, z nobeno religijo, z nobeno sekto.Jiddu Krishnamurti 31Nerazumne resnice so lahko bolj škodljive kot razumnenapake.T. H. Huxley 3213

Resnica je redko nedolžna in nikoli preprosta.Oscar Wilde 33Ne vem, kakšen sem v očeh sveta, a sam sebi se zdim kotdeček, ki se je igral na morski obali in se veselil, ko jekdaj pa kdaj našel kak bleščeč kamenček ali školjko, kista bila lepša od drugih, medtem ko mu je neizmerniocean resnice še naprej ostal neznan.Isaac Newton 34Resnica nima ure. Zato je zanjo je vedno pravi čas, šenajbolj takrat, ko se zdi, da so okoliščine najmanjprimerne.Albert Schweitzer 35Laž bo obšla svet še preden si resnica obuje čevlje.C. H. Spurgeon 36Običajna usoda novih resnic je, da so na začetkuherezije, na koncu pa vraže.T. H. Huxley 37Ni novih resnic, so le resnice, ki so jih med iskanjemprezrli.Mary McCarthy 3814

Resnice, ki so se postarale, so obnemogle innezanesljive; včasih jih lahko še nekaj časa umetnoohranjamo pri življenju, a v njih ni več življenja.Peter Demianovič Ouspensky 39Eno najljubših vodil mojega očeta je bilo razlikovanjemed dvema vrstama resnic: med globokimi resnicami, kijih prepoznamo po tem, da je njihovo nasprotje pravtako globoka resnica, in plehkostmi, katerih nasprotja soočitno absurdna.Niels Bohr 4015

them. Werner Heisenberg (1901 –1976), nemški matematik in fizik, Der Teilund das Ganze (1969), 17. pogl.447 Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to theutmost possible degree. Ezra Pound (1885 – 1972), amer. pesnik, How ToRead (1931), 2. del448 All that is literature seeks to communicate power; all that is notliterature, to communicate knowledge. Thomas De Quincey (1785 – 1859),angl. esejist in kritik, London Magazine, januar - julij 1823449 A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitudeof false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that forevery human being there is a diversity of existences, that the singleexistence is itself an illusion in part… it promises us meaning, harmony,and even justice. Saul Bellow (1915 - ), amer. pisatelj, govor ob sprejemuNobelove nagrade, l. 1976, v: The American Scholar Summer 1977, št. 46,str. 25450 A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent. Logan PearsallSmith (1865 – 1946), amer. pisatelj, Afterthoughts (1931) - Art and Letters451 Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pureand very dead. Sinclair Lewis (1885 – 1951), amer. pisatelj, govor obprejemu Nobelove nagrade, 12.12.1930. The American Fear of Literature, vH. Frenz, Literature 1901 - 1967 (1969), str. 285452 True literature can exist only where it is created not by diligent andtrustworthy officials, but by madmen, heretics, dreamers, rebels andsceptics. But when a writer must be sensible - there can be no bronzeliterature, there can only be a newspaper literature, which is read today,and used for wrapping soap tomorrow. Jevgenij Zamjatin (1884 – 1937),ruski pisatelj, Essays (1970) - I am Afraid (1921)453 Alcohol is a very necessary article - It makes life bearable to millionsof people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober.It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane personwould do at eleven in the morning. George Bernard Shaw, irski dramatik,Major Barbara (1907), 2. dejanje454 Jede Form von Süchtigkeit ist von übel, gleichgültig, ob es sich umAlkohol oder Morphium oder Idealismus handelt. Carl GustavJung (1875 – 1961), švicarski psiholog, Erinnerungen, Träume, Gedanken(1962), 12. pogl.455 Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able tocontend. Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626), Essays (1625) - Of Studies456 J’aimais, et j’aime encore, les mathématiques pour elles-męmescomme n’admettant pas l’hypocrisie et le vague. I used to lovemathematics for its own sake, and I still do, because it allows for nohypocrisy and no vagueness. Stendhal (Henri Beyle, 1783 – 1842), fr.pisatelj, La Vie d’Henri Brulard (1890), 10. pogl.149

457 Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never knowwhat we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970), brit. filozof in matematik, Mysticism andLogic (1918), 4. pogl.458 it is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents anearthquake. Lord Byron (George Gordon, 1788 – 1824), angl. pesnik,pismo Annabella Milbanke, 29.11.1813, v L. A. Marchand (ured.), Byron’sLetters and Journals, 3. zvez. (1974)459 Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes itsorigin from emotion recollected in tranquillity. WilliamWordsworth (1770 – 1850),angl. pesnik, Lyrical Ballads (1802), predgovor460 Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the GrandCanyon and waiting for the echo. Don Marquis (1878 – 1937), amer.pesnik in novinar, v E. Anthony, Rare Don Marquis (1962), str. 1461 More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetryto interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. Without poetry, ourscience will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with us forreligion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Matthew Arnold (1822– 1888), angl. pesnik in esejist, Essays in Criticism Second Series (1888) -The Study of Poetry462 Prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the bestorder. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834), pesnik, kritik, filozof, TableTalk (1835) 12.7.1827463 She that with poetry is won,Is but a desk to write upon. Samuel Butler (1612 – 1680), angl.pesnik,Hudibras, 2. del, (1664), 1. spev, vrst. 591464 La poésie est une chose aussi précise que la géométrie. GustaveFlaubert (1821 – 1880), fr. pisatelj, pismo Louise Colet, 14.8.1853, v M.Nadeau (ured.), Correspondence 1853 - 1856 (1964)465 Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost ininterpretation. Robert Frost (1874 – 1963), amer. pesnik, v LouisUntermeyer, Robert Frost (1964), str. 1466 Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. John Wain (1925 - ), BBCradijski prenos, 13.1.1976467 Le poète est semblable au prince des nuéesQui hante la tempęte et se rit de l’archer;Exilé sur le sol, au milieu des huées,Ses ailes de géant l’empęchent de marcher.The poet is like the prince of the clouds, who rides out the tempest and laughsat the archer. But when he is exiled on the ground, amidst the clamour, hisgiant’s wings prevent him from walking. Charles Baudelaire (1821 – 1867),fr. pesnik in kritik, Les fleurs du mal (1857) L’Albatross, Spleen et idéal št. 2150

468 Art is born of humiliation. Wystan Hugh Auden (1907 – 1973), angl.pesnik, v Stephen Spender World Within World (1951), 2. pogl.469 Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work ofart to its content, and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art.Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable. Susan Sontag (1933 -), amer. pisateljica, Evergreen Review, dec. 1964470 Kunst-Werke sind von einer unendlichen Einsamkeit und mit nichtsso wenig erreichbar als mit Kritik. Nur Liebe kann sie erfassen undhalten und kann gerecht sein gegen sie. Works of art are of an infinitesolitariness, and nothing is less likely to bring us near to them than criticism.Only love can apprehend and hold them, and can be just towards them.Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926), nemški pesnik, Briefe an einen jungenDichter (1929), 23.4.1903471 On peut calculer la valeur d’un homme d’après le nombre de sesennemis et l’importance d’une oeuvre du mal qu’on en dit. You cancalculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and theimportance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. GustaveFlaubert (1821 – 1880), fr. pisatelj, pismo Louise Colet, 14.6.1853, v M.Nadeau (ured.), Correspondence 1853 - 1856 (1964)472 It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much moremoney writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it.Wystan Hugh Auden, 1907 – 1973, angl. pesnik, The Dyer’s Hand (1963),predgovor473 The only qualities for real success in journalism are ratlike cunning, aplausible manner and a little literary ability....The capacity to steal otherpeople’s ideas and phrases. Nicholas Tomalin, Sunday Times Magazine,26.10.1969474 All newspaper and journalistic activity is an intellectual brothel fromwhich there is no retreat. Lev Nikolajevič Tolstoj (1828 – 1910), ruskipisatelj, pismo V. P. Mešerskemu, 22.8.1871, v Letters (ured. R. F.Christian, 1978), 1. zvez.475 Die Zeitungsschreiber haben sich ein hölzernes Capellchen erbaut,das sie auch den Tempel des Ruhms nennen, worinn sie den ganzen TagVorträte anschlagen und abnehmen und ein Gehämmer machen, dassman sein eignes Wort nicht hört. The journalists have constructed forthemselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame,in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such ahammering you can’t hear yourself speak. Georg ChristophLichtenberg (1742 – 1799), nemški znanstvenik in dramski kritik, v A.Leitzmann, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Aphorismen (1904), str. 1476 Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. HerbertAsquith (1852 – 1928), brit. politik, ministr. preds. (1908 – 1916), Observer,15.4.1923477 JUDGE: You are extremely offensive, young man.151

SMITH: As a matter of fact, we both are, and the only differencebetween us is that I am trying to be, and you can’t help it. F. E. Smith(1872 – 1930), brit. politik in odvetnik, v 2nd Earl of Birkenhead Earl ofBirkenhead (1933), 1. zvez., 9. pogl.478 Old-age, a second child, by Nature cursed/ With more and greaterevils than the first,/ Weak, sickly, full of pains; in ev’ry breath/ Railing atlife, and yet afraid of death. Charles Churchill (1731 – 1764), angl. pesnik,Gotham (1764) 1. knj., 215. vrst479 Youth and Hope - those twin realities of this phantom world! SamuelTaylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834), angl. pesnik, kritik, filozof, Table Talk(1835), 10.7.1834480 Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit. Margaret Cavendish (pribl. 1624 –1674),angl. grofica, Plays (1662), Nature’s Three Daughters, 2. del, 5. dejanje, 20.prizor481 Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage isnatural to a cockatoo. George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950), irski dramatik,Getting Married (1911), predgovor, Hearth and Home482 In married life three is company and two none. Oscar Wilde (1854 –1900), angl. – irski. dramatik in pesnik, The Importance of Being Earnest(1895), 1. dejanje483 Verheiratet sein verlangt immer und überall die feinste Kunst derUnaufrichtigkeit zwischen Mensch und Mensch. Vicki Baum (1888 –1960), nem. pisateljica, Zwischenfall in Lohwinckel (1930), str. 140484 It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a stateof marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remainingin that connection, and the restraints which civilized society imposes toprevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together. SamuelJohnson (1709 – 1784), angl. pesnik, kritik, leksikograf, Boswell Life, 2.zvez., str. 1 (3.3.1772)485 MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of amaster, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. AmbroseBierce (1842 – pribl. 1914), amer. pisatelj, The Devil’s Dictionary (1911), str.213486 Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.William Congreve (1670 – 1729), angl. dramatik, The Old Bachelor (1693),5. dejanje, 10. prizor487 Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and theconstancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chainwere broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole socialfabric would fly asunder. You can’t have the argument both ways. If theprisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950), irski dramatik, Man and Superman(1903), 3. dejanje152

488 If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’dnever marry. O. Henry (William Sydney Porter, (1862 – 1910), amer. piseckratkih zgodb, Four Million (1906) - Memoirs of a Yellow Dog489 One fool at least in every married couple. Henry Fielding (1707 –1754),angl. pisatelj, Amelia (1751), 9. knj., 4. pogl.490 Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally,grab a chump. Tap his forehead first, and if it rings solid, don’t hesitate.All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains. P. G.Wodehouse (1881 – 1975), angl. pisatelj, od leta 1955 amer. državljan, TheAdventures of Sally (1920), 10. pogl.491 We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but likeother married couples they sometimes live apart. Saki (Hector HughMunro, 1870 – 1916), škotski pisatelj, The Unbearable Bassington (1912),13. pogl.492 The reasons why so few marriages are happy, is, because young ladiesspend their time in making nets, not in making cages. Jonathan Swift(Dean Swift, 1667 – 1745), angl.-irski pisatelj, Thoughts on Various Subjects(1711)493 Prostitution. Selling one’s body to keep one’s soul: this is the meaningof the sins that were forgiven to the woman because she loved much: onemight say of most marriages that they were selling one’s soul to keepone’s body. Compton Mackenzie (1883 – 1972), angl. pisatelj, TheAdventures of Sylvia Scarlett (1918), 2. knj., 5. pogl.494 Marriage is the waste-paper basket of the emotions. Sidney Webb(Baron Passfield, 1859 – 1947), angl. social. Politik, v Bertrand RussellAutobiography (1967), 1. zvez., 4. pogl.495 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting humanintelligence long enough to get money from it. Stephen Leacock (1869 –1944), kand. humorist, Garden of Folly (1924) - The Perfect Salesman496 You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. NormanDouglas (1868 – 1952), pisatelj škotsk. rodu, South Wind (1917), 6. pogl.497 Plain lies are dangerous: the only weapons left him [the advertiser]are the suggestio falsi and the suppressio veri, and his use even of thesewould be very much more circumscribed if one person in ten had everbeen taught how to read....Those who prefer their English sloppy haveonly themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery ofvocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds....The moral of allthis...is that we have the kind of advertising we deserve. Dorothy L.Sayers (1893 – 1957), angl. pisatelj., Spectator, 19.11.1937 - The Psychologyof Advertising498 Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. GeorgeOrwell (Eric Blair, 1903 – 1950), angl. pisatelj, pripisano153

499 Vision or Imagination is a Representation of what Eternally Exists,Really and Unchangeably. William Blake 1757 –1827, angl. pesnik, AVision of the Last Judgement (1810)500 Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art, as of life.Joseph Conrad (Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski, 1857 – 1924), angl.pisatelj (roj. na Poljskem), Some Reminiscences (1912), 1. pogl.501 Glückseligkeit ist nicht ein Ideal der Vernunft, sondern derEinbildungstraft. Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804), nemški filozof, Fundamental Principles of theMetaphysics of Ethics (1785), 2. pogl.154

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