Tag: Aphorisms

Free Download Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings (Audiobook)
English | December 28, 2021 | ASIN: B09BK7L4M3 | M4B@128 kbps | 15h 12m | 846 MB
Author: Walter Benjamin | Editor: Peter Demetz | Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin’s writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and provides travelogues of various cities, including Moscow under Stalin.
Benjamin moves seamlessly from literary criticism to autobiography to philosophical-theological speculations, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest and most versatile writers of the 20th century.

Free Download Meera Grimes, "Aphorisms of Masquism"
English | ISBN: 1527500098 | 2017 | 199 pages | PDF | 840 KB
This book represents the monumental work of Swami R. Vaidyanathan (1913-1990), who was a research student at Cambridge under Lord Rutherford from 1934 to 1938. Through nine aphorisms, it presents a complete and unique philosophy. It is an independent work, not based on any book or person or symbol, and offers a new view of a way of living and a new conception of self-regarding. Though the main aim of this philosophy is the reduction of human suffering and the promotion of world welfare, the foundation it gives to establish the philosophy to achieve that aim represents a complex network of ideas that are all amazingly interwoven and interrelated.

Free Download Franz Kafka, "The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka"
English | ISBN: 0691205922 | 2022 | 256 pages | PDF | 4 MB
A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature―featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka’s acclaimed biographer

Free Download The Grain of Wheat: Aphorisms By Hans Urs von Balthasar
1995 | 142 Pages | ISBN: 0898705401 | EPUB | 1 MB
Hans Urs von Balthasar This volume is unique among the works of the great theologian and spiritual writer von Balthasar for it is a collection of short, personal and very readable reflections and aphorisms that are the fruit of his prayer and study over the course of his life on the central themes of the Christian spiritual life. Balthasar’s style-intimate, lucid, precise and yet poetic, along with the intensity of his contemplative vision-invites every reader to meditate deeply on the fullness and dynamism of Christian truths in all their splendor. In addition to his own meditations, Balthasar also includes quotes and thoughts from some 30 saints and spiritual writers including Augustine, Francis de Sales, John of the Cross, Elizabeth of the Trinity, Teresa of Avila, Fenelon, Therese of Lisieux and more. These rich, thought-provoking gems provide wonderful meditations for laity by one of the masters of the spiritual life. "Every careful reader of Hans Urs von Balthasar will discover that the precious alchemy of his thought results from the deeply fruitful marriage he achieves between keen intelligence and ardent piety, which is the very heart of the Christian intellectual endeavor. Balthasar proves to be one of the scant few thoroughly reliable teachers and pathfinders in the thicket of late-twentieth-century life because he himself exemplifies the truth of his own aphorism that only the one whose eyes can encompass much may be said to have an integrated vision." -Dr. Erasmo Leiva, From the Foreword