Philosophy and Life: And Other EssaysS. Sonnenschein, 1902 - 274 páginas |
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... scientific discoverers , the great artists , novelists , religious teachers are really apt to forget that they are dealing only with a part of reality , but that the lesser leaders , and those of us who are not leaders at all , are very ...
... scientific discoverers , the great artists , novelists , religious teachers are really apt to forget that they are dealing only with a part of reality , but that the lesser leaders , and those of us who are not leaders at all , are very ...
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... scientific knowledge , of all human affections , of all secular consciousness . Its lesson ultimately is , that there is nothing essentially common or unclean ; that the holy is not parted off from the true and the good and the ...
... scientific knowledge , of all human affections , of all secular consciousness . Its lesson ultimately is , that there is nothing essentially common or unclean ; that the holy is not parted off from the true and the good and the ...
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... scientific measurement and that the art of life con- sists in the just appreciation of the pleasure value of objects of desire . As a devout Benthamite , Mill sought to perfect himself in this art and to become a kind of professor of it ...
... scientific measurement and that the art of life con- sists in the just appreciation of the pleasure value of objects of desire . As a devout Benthamite , Mill sought to perfect himself in this art and to become a kind of professor of it ...
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... scientific methods of study . Speaking of the Gold Coast negro , not ( one would have thought ) a very hopeful subject , Miss Kingsley wrote : - - " The true negro is , I believe , by far the better man than the Asiatic ; he is ...
... scientific methods of study . Speaking of the Gold Coast negro , not ( one would have thought ) a very hopeful subject , Miss Kingsley wrote : - - " The true negro is , I believe , by far the better man than the Asiatic ; he is ...
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... scientific method has been not less re- markable in all that concerns social life than in what concerns our material surroundings . One by one the great arts that have to do with the improvement of the conditions of social life and ...
... scientific method has been not less re- markable in all that concerns social life than in what concerns our material surroundings . One by one the great arts that have to do with the improvement of the conditions of social life and ...
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Página 140 - And if he is compelled to look straight at the light, will he not have a pain in his eyes which will make him turn away to take refuge in the objects of vision which he can see, and which he will conceive to be in reality clearer than the things which are now being shown to him ? True, he said.
Página 42 - 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 52 - 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 139 - 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 140 - 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 140 - 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 139 - 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 261 - 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 42 - 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 140 - ... 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?