Philosophy and Life: And Other EssaysS. Sonnenschein, 1902 - 274 páginas |
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... become almost a commonplace to note . I shall mention two . In the first place , we are frequently told that it is an age of specialisation , and everybody knows that this is true . We have all got to live , and we must live under the ...
... become almost a commonplace to note . I shall mention two . In the first place , we are frequently told that it is an age of specialisation , and everybody knows that this is true . We have all got to live , and we must live under the ...
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... become insignificant when it is treated in this way . Art , for instance , when taken by itself and made its own object , is apt to become mere photography - perhaps something worse ; science and literature are apt to become pedantry ...
... become insignificant when it is treated in this way . Art , for instance , when taken by itself and made its own object , is apt to become mere photography - perhaps something worse ; science and literature are apt to become pedantry ...
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... become specialists in one branch of reality , to keep ourselves in touch with the whole to which it belongs . As Goethe said : " Sich dem Halben zu entwöhnen , Und im Ganzen Guten Schönen Resolut zu leben . " To do this on easy terms ...
... become specialists in one branch of reality , to keep ourselves in touch with the whole to which it belongs . As Goethe said : " Sich dem Halben zu entwöhnen , Und im Ganzen Guten Schönen Resolut zu leben . " To do this on easy terms ...
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... becomes very bad , they bestir themselves , and get things put a little right . But we do not require to go to America for the attempt to make half - truths pass current for whole truths . I noticed the other day that a duke , who was ...
... becomes very bad , they bestir themselves , and get things put a little right . But we do not require to go to America for the attempt to make half - truths pass current for whole truths . I noticed the other day that a duke , who was ...
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... becomes a more serious and interesting one . The ideal of general progress is another ethical ques- tion , which it has struck me that economists tend to ignore , to the detriment of their treatment of their own specific problem . What ...
... becomes a more serious and interesting one . The ideal of general progress is another ethical ques- tion , which it has struck me that economists tend to ignore , to the detriment of their treatment of their own specific problem . What ...
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Página 38 - Ah! if I could show you this! if I could show you these men and women, all the world over, in every stage of history, under every abuse of error, under every circumstance of failure, without hope, without help, without thanks, still obscurely fighting the lost fight of virtue, still clinging, in the brothel or on the scaffold, to some rag of honor, the poor jewel of their souls...
Página 48 - To be honest, to be kind — to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation — above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself — here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.
Página 135 - Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will see, if you look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette players have in front of them, over which they show the puppets.
Página 136 - At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows...
Página 136 - You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners. Like ourselves, I replied; and they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the caver True, he said; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
Página 135 - Behold! human beings living in an underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads.
Página 254 - The reef-constructing corals have indeed reared and preserved wonderful memorials of the subterranean oscillations of level; we see in each barrier-reef a proof that the land has there subsided, and in each atoll a monument over an island now lost. We may thus, like unto a geologist who had lived his ten thousand years and kept a record of the passing changes, gain some insight into the great system by which the surface of this globe has been broken up, and land and water interchanged.
Página 38 - Of all earth's meteors, here at least is the most strange and consoling: that this ennobled lemur, this hair-crowned bubble of the dust, this inheritor of a few years and sorrows, should yet deny himself his rare delights, and add to his frequent pains, and live for an ideal, however misconceived.
Página 255 - If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.
Página 136 - ... the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves; then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven and he will see the sky and the stars by night better than the sun or the light of the sun by day?