Baltasar Gracián y Morales S.J. (Spanish: [baltaˈsaɾ ɣɾaˈθjan]; 8 January 1601 – 6 December 1658), better known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher.

Baltasar Gracián was a philosopher and writer known as the leading Spanish exponent of conceptism (conceptismo), a style of dealing with ideas that involves the use of terse and subtle displays of exaggerated wit. After studying at Calatayud and …

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The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Spanish: Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia) is a book written in 1647 by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, better known as Baltasar Gracian. [1] It is a collection of 300 maxims , each with a commentary, on various topics giving advice and guidance on how to live fully, advance socially, and be a better person, that ...

THE ART OF WORLDLY WISDOM BY BALTHASAR GRACIAN TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH BY JOSEPH JACOBS [1892] Scanned, Proofed, and formatted at sacred-texts.com, June 2005, by John Bruno

Gracian’s Agudeza y arte de ingenio (Wit and the Art of Inventiveness) (1643) was at once a poetic, a rhetoric and an anthology of the conceptist style. Gracian’s earliest works, El héroe (1637) and El político (1640) were treatises on the ideal qualities for political leaders.

2012年7月8日 · Considered by many to be Machiavelli’s better in strategy and insight, Gracian’s maxims give advice on how to flourish and thrive in a cutthroat world filled with cunning, duplicity, and power struggles, all while still maintaining your dignity, honor, and self-respect.

Baltasar Gracián y Morales, SJ (8 January 1601 – 6 December 1658), formerly Anglicized as Baltazar Gracian,[1] was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragón). His proto-existentialist writings were lauded by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom. Gracián's style, generically called conceptism, is characterized by ellipsis and the concentration of a maximum of significance in a minimum of form, an approach referred to in Spanish as agudeza (wit), and which is brought to its extreme in the Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia (literally Manual Oracle and Art …

2023年12月16日 · Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601–1658) was a Spanish Jesuit thinker and writer regarded as a master of Baroque “conceptist” prose and author of relevant philosophical and political works, the most influential of which, El Criticón, is considered the summit of the allegorical novel in Spanish.