Quelques citations sur les secrets, en commençant par des proverbes:
"L'âme n’a point de secret que la conduite ne révèle." / "Qui médit de moi en secret me craint; qui me loue en face me méprise." / "Un flatteur est un ennemi secret." / "Si vous voulez que votre ennemi ne sache pas votre secret, ne le révélez pas à votre ami." / "Qui conçoit en secret accouche en public." / "Donne ton amour à ta femme, mais ton secret à ta mère ou à ta sœur." (proverbes)
"La vérité d'un homme c'estd'abord ce qu'il cache." / "Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides." (André Malraux) [à comparer à: "L'homme n'est pas ce qu'il cache, il est ce qu'il fait." (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)]
"I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone." (Rainer Maria Rilke)
"If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself." (George Orwell) [on pense à: "Si vous voulez que l'on garde votre secret, le plus sûr est de le garder vous-même." (Sénèque)]
"He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people." (Anton Chekhov)
"There are certain things in a man's past which he does not divulge to everybody but, perhaps, only to his friends. Again there are certain things he will not divulge even to his friends; he will divulge them perhaps only to himself, and that, too, as a secret. But, finally, there are things which he is afraid to divulge even to himself, and every decent man has quite an accumulation of such things in his mind. I can put it even this way: the more decent a man is, the larger will the number of such things be." (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
"Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands." (Sun Tzu)
"Rien ne pèse tant qu'un secret." / "Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret." (Jean de La Fontaine)
"Nothing in this world is hidden forever. The gold which has lain for centuries unsuspected in the ground, reveals itself one day on the surface. Sand turns traitor, and betrays the footstep that has passed over it; water gives back to the tell-tale surface the body that has been drowned. Fire itself leaves the confession, in ashes, of the substance consumed in it. Hate breaks its prison-secrecy in the thoughts, through the doorway of the eyes; and Love finds the Judas who betrays it by a kiss. Look where we will, the inevitable law of revelation is one of the laws of nature: the lasting preservation of a secret is a miracle which the world has never yet seen." (Wilkie Collins)
"We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful to neither wound nor pollute." (Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly)
"L'amour le plus discret Laisse par quelque marque échapper son secret." (Jean Racine)
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Carl Gustav Jung est cité ici:
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/wawa/blog/061121/lhumanite-souffre-dune-immense-carence-introspective
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