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... necessary . I desire to return my sincere thanks for the suggestions which have come to me alike from public critiques and private communications . In some cases contradictory requests have conflicted - thus , on the one hand , I have ...
... necessary . I desire to return my sincere thanks for the suggestions which have come to me alike from public critiques and private communications . In some cases contradictory requests have conflicted - thus , on the one hand , I have ...
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... necessary and certain growth the knowledge of the one all - embracing truth , which is rich and varied beyond our conception . In order to energetic labor in the further progress of philosophy , it is necessary to imagine that the ...
... necessary and certain growth the knowledge of the one all - embracing truth , which is rich and varied beyond our conception . In order to energetic labor in the further progress of philosophy , it is necessary to imagine that the ...
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... necessary in religion to return from confessional distinctions to Christianity itself , and in philosophy , to abandon authority for the reason . We should not seek to be Lutherans or Calvinists , but simply Christians , and we should ...
... necessary in religion to return from confessional distinctions to Christianity itself , and in philosophy , to abandon authority for the reason . We should not seek to be Lutherans or Calvinists , but simply Christians , and we should ...
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... necessary . A re- ligion can be considered divine only when it is adapted to all , when it gains acceptance through miracles and virtue , and when it contradicts neither natural ethics nor the reason . Religion is union with God through ...
... necessary . A re- ligion can be considered divine only when it is adapted to all , when it gains acceptance through miracles and virtue , and when it contradicts neither natural ethics nor the reason . Religion is union with God through ...
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... necessary degeneration , interrupted at times by sudden restorations - thus the Deists , thus Machiavelli and Rous- seau . Everything degenerates , science itself only con- tributes to the fall - therefore , back to the happy begin ...
... necessary degeneration , interrupted at times by sudden restorations - thus the Deists , thus Machiavelli and Rous- seau . Everything degenerates , science itself only con- tributes to the fall - therefore , back to the happy begin ...
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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.