Georges Duhamel Quotes

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When I say, Beware of the radio if you want to improve your mind, … I am warning the public against their worst enemy, conformity.

Georges Duhamel
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Georges Duhamel
The book is one of the springs of creative individualism, that individualism which, in these uncertain times, remains the guardian angel of human society. For five hundred years the book has been, for the solitary mind, an incomparable instrument of uplift and liberation.

Georges Duhamel
I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

Georges Duhamel
Radio, on the other hand, is now the chief agent of imperialism. It does not purify the spirit of man, does not, like the book, bring him back to the sanctuary of solitude, but throws him to the lions, subtly preparing his mind for the blood and chains of public sacrifice.

Georges Duhamel
Is it possible to create a maintain a true culture, a strong and flourishing culture, through the medium of pictoral and oral apparatus?

Georges Duhamel
What a teacher imparts by word of mouth is nothing in comparison with what he teaches us to get for ourselves from books.

Georges Duhamel
… the cinema and the radio and the effect they have had in weakening the impulse to spiritual effort

Georges Duhamel
The burden of experience is a sorrowful one. It is always sorrowful to have sufficient memory to discern the future.

Georges Duhamel
Sometimes he comes up out of the depths and speaks. He talks of death with an imaginative lucidity which sounds like actual experience. Sometimes he sees it.... And as he gazes, his pupils suddenly distend. But he will not, he cannot make up his mind.... He wants to suffer a little longer.

Georges Duhamel