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February 20 - February 23, 2020
Indian
On Indian Philosophy
Critique
On German Philsophy and what is left to do - Did shopenhauer read this and complete the circle of German philosophy
excellent.
Indian Death Dirge,
for in truth all is influence except ourselves.
this
On Napoleon, the books about him
disinterestedly,
On Management
Bourrienne,
inborn
On Napoleon
continued he, gaily, “pay your respects. What book do you think Napoleon carried in his field library?— my ‘Werther!
Politique, for instance, we find the Old Testament, the New Testament, the Koran; by which we see from what point of view Napoleon regarded religious matters.
Roman Elegies,
too,
On Speakin
Peter the Great,
Ségur,
Fichte
equally
On illness
Cooper’s
Lavater,
History of Napoleon by Walter Scott.
Bignon,
A book about Napoleon
Samson,
which
On Milton
Milton
Globe
Temps,
Gu...
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Bentham.
keep
Beautiful Quote
six-and-thirty
on tragical situations
Leibnitz,
Memoirs of St. Simon.
Victor Hugo, Alfred de Vigny, Emile Deschamps,
Achilleis,
St. Beuve, Ballanche, Victor Hugo, Balzac, Alfred de Vigny, Jules Janin,
“Mérimée,
Béranger
On Bergener
Göttling
Priest Propertius
to
Beautiful Passage
Iphigenia,
David,
Le Rire de Mirabeau.
Campe
which
On Goethes path in Life
sharpen
On improvement
Voss’s “Luise
Euripides
“It is remarkable,” said I, “that, of all talents, the musical shows itself earliest; so that Mozart in his fifth, Beethoven in his eighth, and Hummel in his ninth year, astonished all near them by their performance and compositions.”
Musical Talent shows itself earliest
Goethe then told me of the book of a young natural philosopher, which he could not help praising, on account of the clearness of his descriptions, while he pardoned him for his teleological tendency. “It is natural to man,” said Goethe, “to regard himself as the final cause of creation, and to consider all other things merely in relation to himself so far as they are of use to him. He makes himself master of the vegetable and animal world, and while he claims other creatures as a fitting diet, he acknowledges his God, and praises His goodness in this paternal care. He takes milk from the cow,
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