Atheism in Philosophy: And Other EssaysRoberts brothers, 1884 - 390 páginas |
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... moral satisfactions , above sensual delights ; still insisting that bodily sensation is the origin and ground of all our feelings , and that every mental experience of joy or pain must be referred to the body at last . 36 PHILOSOPHIC ...
... moral satisfactions , above sensual delights ; still insisting that bodily sensation is the origin and ground of all our feelings , and that every mental experience of joy or pain must be referred to the body at last . 36 PHILOSOPHIC ...
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... moral rectitude the true solution of his problem . A well - ordered life is the answer required to the question where and how to win the satisfaction which instinct prompts us to seek , and which Nature declares to be the true and only ...
... moral rectitude the true solution of his problem . A well - ordered life is the answer required to the question where and how to win the satisfaction which instinct prompts us to seek , and which Nature declares to be the true and only ...
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And Other Essays Frederic Henry Hedge. moral life . Such a life is blessedness : and that blessedness is capable of no increase ; duration adds nothing to it . Therefore , on ethical , as well as physical grounds , Epicurus rejected the ...
And Other Essays Frederic Henry Hedge. moral life . Such a life is blessedness : and that blessedness is capable of no increase ; duration adds nothing to it . Therefore , on ethical , as well as physical grounds , Epicurus rejected the ...
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... moral sentiments in the person of an imagi- nary " wise man , " whom they invested with all the attributes commended by that philosophy . " The wise man , " they said , " lives , like the gods , a blessed life , lifted above the power ...
... moral sentiments in the person of an imagi- nary " wise man , " whom they invested with all the attributes commended by that philosophy . " The wise man , " they said , " lives , like the gods , a blessed life , lifted above the power ...
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... moral defect ; not , as often happens , from the bondage of appetite , but from want of heart . Emerson says our success is through the affections . Schopen- hauer was a signal illustration of the truth of that remark . There was a root ...
... moral defect ; not , as often happens , from the bondage of appetite , but from want of heart . Emerson says our success is through the affections . Schopen- hauer was a signal illustration of the truth of that remark . There was a root ...
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Página 308 - Juda's land The dreaded Infant's hand ; The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyn ; Nor all the gods beside Longer dare abide, Not Typhon huge ending in snaky twine : Our Babe, to show His Godhead true, Can in His swaddling bands control the damned crew.
Página 147 - How it the purple flower does slight, Scarce touching where it lies ; But, gazing back upon the skies, Shines with a mournful light, like its own tear, Because so long divided from the sphere. Restless it rolls and unsecure, Trembling lest it grow impure, Till the warm sun pities its pain, And to the skies exhales it back again.
Página 303 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Página 220 - God can, if he pleases, superadd to matter a faculty of thinking, than that he should superadd to it another substance with a faculty of thinking...
Página 107 - Then old age and experience, hand in hand, Lead him to death and make him understand After a search so painful and so long, That all his life he has been in the wrong.
Página 124 - Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats and fishes, and society, and the cheerful glass, and candle-light, and fireside conversations, and innocent vanities, and jests, and irony itself — do these things go out with life...
Página 180 - Then we shall rest, and we shall see ; we shall see, and we shall love ; we shall love, and we shall praise.
Página 109 - tis not in The harmony of things, — this hard decree, This uneradicable taint of sin, This boundless upas,* this all-blasting tree, Whose root is earth, whose leaves and branches be The skies which rain their plagues on men like dew — Disease, death, bondage — all the woes we see, 1132 And worse, the woes we see not — which throb through The immedicable soul, with heart-aches ever new.
Página 88 - All bodies with which we are acquainted, when raised into the air and quietly abandoned, descend to the earth's surface in lines perpendicular to it. They are therefore urged thereto by a force or effort, which it is but reasonable to regard as the direct or indirect result of a consciousness and a will existing somewhere, though beyond our power to trace, which force we term gravity...
Página 124 - tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy...