Reads tagged with “public domain”
The Poetry of Reality: Robert Louis Stevenson on What Makes Life Worth Living
“The true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing.”
How the Octopus Came to Earth: Stunning 19th-Century French Chromolithographs of Cephalopods
The art-science that captured the wonder of some of “the most brilliant productions of Nature.”
Practical Mysticism: Evelyn Underhill’s Stunning Century-Old Manifesto for Secular Transcendence and Seeing the Heart of Reality
“Because mystery is horrible to us, we have agreed for the most part to live in a world of labels; to make of them the current coin of experience, and ignore their merely symbolic character, the infinite gradation of values which they misrepresent.”
The Poetry of Science: A Victorian Portal to Wonder
“Truth cannot die; it passes from mind to mind, imparting light in its progress, and constantly renewing its own brightness during its diffusion. The True is the Beautiful; and the truths revealed to the mind render us capable of perceiving new beauties on the earth.”
Le Monde de la Mer: Stunning 19th-Century French Illustrations of the Wonders of the Sea
Dive into “the world of the sea in its luxury and its agitations.”
The Art of Human Connection: Pioneering Psychologist and Philosopher William James on the Most Important Attitude for Relationships
“Neither the whole of truth nor the whole of good is revealed to any single observer.”
Stunning Century-Old Illustrations of Tibetan Fairy Tales from the Artist Who Created Bambi
Soulful art from stories that speak “to the childhood of all times and all races.”
The Afterlives of the Soul: Sister Nivedita on Love and Death
“To the soul, time does not exist. Only her own great purpose exists, shining clear and steady through the mists before her.”
How to Savor Winter: A Century-Old Poetic Recipe for Bliss in the Bleakest Season
In praise of “the poetry of silence and darkness,” from which life emerges “fresher, fairer, sweeter for its long winter rest.”
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