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... understanding merely , and , on the other , by the inexhaustible extent of the field of philosophy . Back of the logical labor of proof and inference stand , as inciting , guiding , and hindering agents , psychical and historical forces ...
... understanding merely , and , on the other , by the inexhaustible extent of the field of philosophy . Back of the logical labor of proof and inference stand , as inciting , guiding , and hindering agents , psychical and historical forces ...
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... understanding and taste ; nay , nakedness , ugliness , and offensiveness seem to it to testify for , rather than against , the genuineness of truth . In its anxiety not to read human elements into nature , it goes so far as completely ...
... understanding and taste ; nay , nakedness , ugliness , and offensiveness seem to it to testify for , rather than against , the genuineness of truth . In its anxiety not to read human elements into nature , it goes so far as completely ...
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... understanding with con- vincing force . Philosophy is no longer willing to be the handmaid of theology , but must set up a house of her own . The watchword now becomes freedom and in- dependent thought , deliverance from every form of ...
... understanding with con- vincing force . Philosophy is no longer willing to be the handmaid of theology , but must set up a house of her own . The watchword now becomes freedom and in- dependent thought , deliverance from every form of ...
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... understanding can discriminate only when it is furnished by sensation with images of that which is to be discriminated , the reason can combine only when the under- standing has supplied the results of analysis as material for ...
... understanding can discriminate only when it is furnished by sensation with images of that which is to be discriminated , the reason can combine only when the under- standing has supplied the results of analysis as material for ...
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... understanding , and the understanding to sensibility , or he is related to thought as thought to life , and life to being . Nay , Nicolas makes even bolder statements than these , when he calls the universe a sensuous and mutable God ...
... understanding , and the understanding to sensibility , or he is related to thought as thought to life , and life to being . Nay , Nicolas makes even bolder statements than these , when he calls the universe a sensuous and mutable God ...
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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.