Pessimism: A History and a Criticism, Volume 1H. S. King, 1877 - 477 pages |
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... enjoyment . The busy man stretches forth his eager hand from day to day to seize some fresh possession , or to shape some new achievement , and in his well filled consciousness there is no room for the question , What is it all worth ...
... enjoyment . The busy man stretches forth his eager hand from day to day to seize some fresh possession , or to shape some new achievement , and in his well filled consciousness there is no room for the question , What is it all worth ...
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... enjoyment , is to be found in the Persian astronomer poet , Omar Khayyam . In the following passage we have a fine poetic expression of intellectual despair in view of the mystery of man's origin and ultimate destiny : With them 2 the ...
... enjoyment , is to be found in the Persian astronomer poet , Omar Khayyam . In the following passage we have a fine poetic expression of intellectual despair in view of the mystery of man's origin and ultimate destiny : With them 2 the ...
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... enjoyment of man . Thus the Deity is praised as the eternally rich master of the feast ' ( Speisemeister ) because of the palatable quality of the various kinds of fruit and esculent animals ; and where this virtue of edibility is ...
... enjoyment of man . Thus the Deity is praised as the eternally rich master of the feast ' ( Speisemeister ) because of the palatable quality of the various kinds of fruit and esculent animals ; and where this virtue of edibility is ...
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... enjoyment . Man's nature is not of the sort to grow still and be pacified anywhere in possession and enjoyment . ' He shows , too , how nature has failed to provide for all the conditions necessary to human felicity . On the other hand ...
... enjoyment . Man's nature is not of the sort to grow still and be pacified anywhere in possession and enjoyment . ' He shows , too , how nature has failed to provide for all the conditions necessary to human felicity . On the other hand ...
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... enjoyment meets us in his liking for Rossini's music - a fact , by the bye , which is especially curious , inasmuch as Schopenhauer is regarded as the philosophic antecedent of Wagner , while Wagnerism is opposed before all things to ...
... enjoyment meets us in his liking for Rossini's music - a fact , by the bye , which is especially curious , inasmuch as Schopenhauer is regarded as the philosophic antecedent of Wagner , while Wagnerism is opposed before all things to ...
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