A STUDY IN THR PRINCIPLES OF PERSONALITY |
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... gives as much pleasure as a costly diet , when once the pain due to want is removed ; and bread and water confer the highest pleasure when they are brought to hungry lips . To habitu- ate self , therefore , to plain and inexpensive diet ...
... gives as much pleasure as a costly diet , when once the pain due to want is removed ; and bread and water confer the highest pleasure when they are brought to hungry lips . To habitu- ate self , therefore , to plain and inexpensive diet ...
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... Give me then health , Apollo ; give Sound mind ; on gotten goods to live Contented ; and let song engage An honoured , not a base , old age . " For a lesson from the new Epicurean testament we cannot do better than turn to the sensible ...
... Give me then health , Apollo ; give Sound mind ; on gotten goods to live Contented ; and let song engage An honoured , not a base , old age . " For a lesson from the new Epicurean testament we cannot do better than turn to the sensible ...
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... give milk for a longer time than her system will bear . Even- tually the accumulating reaction tells . There comes exhaustion running , it may be , into illness caused by depletion ; occasionally ending in death , and THE EPICUREAN ...
... give milk for a longer time than her system will bear . Even- tually the accumulating reaction tells . There comes exhaustion running , it may be , into illness caused by depletion ; occasionally ending in death , and THE EPICUREAN ...
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... give himself when his sensations prompted he has now to take in long measure . The extra earnings laid by for the benefit of his family are quickly swept away by costly journeys in aid of recovery and by the many expenses which illness ...
... give himself when his sensations prompted he has now to take in long measure . The extra earnings laid by for the benefit of his family are quickly swept away by costly journeys in aid of recovery and by the many expenses which illness ...
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... gives us the pure and undiluted article as a final gospel of life . The fact that it has proved such a fad during the past few years is striking evidence of the husky fare on which our modern prodigals can be content to feed . " Come ...
... gives us the pure and undiluted article as a final gospel of life . The fact that it has proved such a fad during the past few years is striking evidence of the husky fare on which our modern prodigals can be content to feed . " Come ...
Termos e frases comuns
abstract law aims appetites and passions Aristotelian Aristotle Aristotle's asceticism become better BOWDOIN COLLEGE calls Cecil Rhodes Chris Christ Christian Scientists Christian Spirit church clinical thermometer comes condition courage Dæmon deed deeper democracy desire devotion doctrine earth elements endure Epictetus Epicurean Epicurus essential evil external things Father feel friends friendship give happiness heart heaven higher honour human individual intellectual interests Jesus keep lives master means ment mental mind moral nature Neoplatonism ness never noble one's ourselves pain perfect philosophy Plato pleasure political practical principle reason recognise relation rich righteousness ring of Gyges sacrifice says seek selfish slavery social end soul Spirit of love Stoic Stoicism subordination teaching temperance Testament thee Theologia Germanica Thou shalt thought tion true truth universal law unrighteousness vice vidual virtue welfare whole wisdom woman words wrong
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Página 100 - Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
Página 54 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Página 63 - I must again repeat what the assailants of utilitarianism seldom have the justice to acknowledge, that the happiness which forms the utilitarian standard of what is right in conduct is not the agent's own happiness but that of all concerned. As between his own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator.
Página 63 - ... the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact, we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good : that each person's happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons.
Página 198 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Página 138 - Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils, — no, nor the human race, as I believe, — and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.
Página 16 - A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
Página 16 - I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd, " I Myself am Heav'n and Hell...
Página 198 - What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union ; and what I forbear I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Página 56 - Now, it is an unquestionable fact, that those who are equally acquainted with, and equally capable of appreciating and enjoying both, do give a most marked preference to the manner of existence which employs their higher faculties.