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... thing has things greater and smaller by its side , but God is the absolutely greatest and smallest ; in accordance with the principle of the coinci- dentia oppositorum , the absolute maximum and the absolute minimum coincide . That ...
... thing has things greater and smaller by its side , but God is the absolutely greatest and smallest ; in accordance with the principle of the coinci- dentia oppositorum , the absolute maximum and the absolute minimum coincide . That ...
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... things , though he is all . He is pure affirmation ; all without him is composed , as it were , of being and nothing , and can neither be nor be known independently : negatio non nihil est , alias nec esset nec in- telligeretur , sed ...
... things , though he is all . He is pure affirmation ; all without him is composed , as it were , of being and nothing , and can neither be nor be known independently : negatio non nihil est , alias nec esset nec in- telligeretur , sed ...
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... things , knowledge is decep- tive , especially the philosophy of the day , which clings to tradition , which fills the memory with learned note - stuff , but leaves the understanding void and , instead of things , interprets ...
... things , knowledge is decep- tive , especially the philosophy of the day , which clings to tradition , which fills the memory with learned note - stuff , but leaves the understanding void and , instead of things , interprets ...
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... things . Perfect knowledge , it is true , can be hoped for only when subject and object correspond to each other . But how is finite man to grasp the infinite universe ? Experience , the basis of all knowledge , gropes about the outer ...
... things . Perfect knowledge , it is true , can be hoped for only when subject and object correspond to each other . But how is finite man to grasp the infinite universe ? Experience , the basis of all knowledge , gropes about the outer ...
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... things , consists in activity ; that , consequently , the soul is always active , being conscious of its own harmony at least in a confused way , even when not conscious of external propor- tions ; further , the doctrine that nature ...
... things , consists in activity ; that , consequently , the soul is always active , being conscious of its own harmony at least in a confused way , even when not conscious of external propor- tions ; further , the doctrine that nature ...
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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.