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... questions to ask which are unan- swerable . We must trust the perfection of the creation so far , as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds , the order of things can satisfy . Every man's ...
... questions to ask which are unan- swerable . We must trust the perfection of the creation so far , as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds , the order of things can satisfy . Every man's ...
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... question , whether the characters are not significant of themselves . Have mountains , and waves , and skies , no sig- nificance but what we consciously give them , when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts ? The word is emblematic ...
... question , whether the characters are not significant of themselves . Have mountains , and waves , and skies , no sig- nificance but what we consciously give them , when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts ? The word is emblematic ...
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... question of the absolute existence of nature still remains open . It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind , not to shake our faith in the stability of particu- lar phenomena , as of heat , water , azote ; but to lead us to ...
... question of the absolute existence of nature still remains open . It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind , not to shake our faith in the stability of particu- lar phenomena , as of heat , water , azote ; but to lead us to ...
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... questions only , the ideal theory answers . Idealism saith : matter is a phenomenon , not a substance . Idealism acquaints us with the total disparity between the evidence of our own being , and the evidence of the world's being . The ...
... questions only , the ideal theory answers . Idealism saith : matter is a phenomenon , not a substance . Idealism acquaints us with the total disparity between the evidence of our own being , and the evidence of the world's being . The ...
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... question occupies your in- tellect , nature brings it in the concrete to be solved by your hands . It were a wise inquiry for the closet , to compare , point by point , especially at remarkable crises in life , our daily history , with ...
... question occupies your in- tellect , nature brings it in the concrete to be solved by your hands . It were a wise inquiry for the closet , to compare , point by point , especially at remarkable crises in life , our daily history , with ...
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Página 16 - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and...
Página 247 - Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.
Página 35 - I was there ; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth ; when he established the clouds above ; when he strengthened the fountains of the deep ; when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment ; when he appointed the foundations of the earth, then I was by him, as one brought up with him ; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him...
Página 9 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Página 247 - They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child. I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or [his; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
Página 245 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genins.
Página 66 - We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity, for doubt, and for sensual indulgence. The dread of man and the love of man shall be a wall of defence and a wreath of joy around all.
Página 264 - For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under.
Página 245 - Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what thev thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.
Página 74 - Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his world.