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... existence , that it is one and the same being and action which manifests itself abso- lutely in God , relatively and in a limited way in the system of creation . It was chiefly three modern ideas which led the Cusan on from dualism to ...
... existence , that it is one and the same being and action which manifests itself abso- lutely in God , relatively and in a limited way in the system of creation . It was chiefly three modern ideas which led the Cusan on from dualism to ...
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... existence , from which he rises to the certitude of God's existence . On this first certain truth of my own ex- istence there follow three others : my nature consists in the three functions of power , knowledge , and volition ; I am ...
... existence , from which he rises to the certitude of God's existence . On this first certain truth of my own ex- istence there follow three others : my nature consists in the three functions of power , knowledge , and volition ; I am ...
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... existence not only of a general harmony , but of definitely fixed proportions . Herewith the philosophical application of mathematics loses that obscure mystical character which had clung to it since the time of Pythagoras , and had ...
... existence not only of a general harmony , but of definitely fixed proportions . Herewith the philosophical application of mathematics loses that obscure mystical character which had clung to it since the time of Pythagoras , and had ...
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... existence of God beyond doubt , by reasoning from the order in nature ( " slight tastes of phi- losophy may perchance move one to atheism but fuller draughts lead back to religion " ) ; but the doctrines of Christianity are matters of ...
... existence of God beyond doubt , by reasoning from the order in nature ( " slight tastes of phi- losophy may perchance move one to atheism but fuller draughts lead back to religion " ) ; but the doctrines of Christianity are matters of ...
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... existence of the thinker . I can doubt everything except that I doubt , and that , in doubting , I am . Even if a superior being sought to de- ceive me in all my thinking , he could not succeed unless I existed , he could not cause me ...
... existence of the thinker . I can doubt everything except that I doubt , and that , in doubting , I am . Even if a superior being sought to de- ceive me in all my thinking , he could not succeed unless I existed , he could not cause me ...
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Page 243 - Even if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him, so Voltaire said — 'si dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait 1'inventer.
Page 570 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 565 - If two or more instances in which the phenomenon occurs have only one circumstance in common, while two or more instances in which it does not occur have nothing in common save the absence of that circumstance, the circumstance in which alone the two sets of instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.
Page 564 - ... a series of feelings which is aware of itself as past and future; and we are reduced to the alternative of believing that the mind, or Ego, is something different from any series of feelings, or possibilities of them, or of accepting the paradox that something which ex hypothesi is but a series of feelings, can be aware of itself as a series.
Page 117 - Of God, (2) Of the Nature and Origin of the Mind, (3) Of the Origin and Nature of the Affects, (4) Of Human Bondage, or of the Strength of the Affects, (5) Of the Power of the Intellect, or of Human Liberty. By BENEDICT DE SPINOZA. Translated from the Latin by WILLIAM HALE WHITE, los.
Page 576 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Page 71 - A man that hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others; for men's minds will either feed upon their own good, or upon others...
Page 71 - I CANNOT call Riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, im-pedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue. It cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march; yea and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory.
Page 236 - that the thoughts of which I am conscious, are the thoughts of a being which I call myself, my mind, my person...
Page 378 - And thus the real does not contain more than the possible. A hundred real dollars do not contain a penny more than a hundred possible dollars.