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... reason could he possibly have . The philosopher is sometimes tempted to reject them when they will not square with his theories . The oared- boat of Common - sense , which keeps to the river or lake or land - locked bay , may ply hither ...
... reason could he possibly have . The philosopher is sometimes tempted to reject them when they will not square with his theories . The oared- boat of Common - sense , which keeps to the river or lake or land - locked bay , may ply hither ...
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... reason cannot reconcile , we may still believe reconcileable . Aristotle , a model of intellectual sobriety , saw this very clearly . He could not understand the coexistence of opposite inclinations in the same soul ; 2 ATTEMPTS AT TRUTH .
... reason cannot reconcile , we may still believe reconcileable . Aristotle , a model of intellectual sobriety , saw this very clearly . He could not understand the coexistence of opposite inclinations in the same soul ; 2 ATTEMPTS AT TRUTH .
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... reason our only resource is to suppose that the premisses on both sides are inadequate that in each case there is some element left out of sight which is essential to catholicity . A further distinction may also be observed between ...
... reason our only resource is to suppose that the premisses on both sides are inadequate that in each case there is some element left out of sight which is essential to catholicity . A further distinction may also be observed between ...
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... reason or feeling , whether it be more properly an affair of the head or the heart . This dis- pute may be settled to the satisfaction of both claimants . Neither the head alone nor the heart alone is sufficient . The two must be wed ...
... reason or feeling , whether it be more properly an affair of the head or the heart . This dis- pute may be settled to the satisfaction of both claimants . Neither the head alone nor the heart alone is sufficient . The two must be wed ...
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... reason comes light , from feeling life and motion . The function of reason is to bring particular cases under a general principle ; that of feeling to decide upon the principle , and so determine action . Reason is the rudder of feeling ...
... reason comes light , from feeling life and motion . The function of reason is to bring particular cases under a general principle ; that of feeling to decide upon the principle , and so determine action . Reason is the rudder of feeling ...
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Page 245 - WHY should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die,* Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh...
Page 11 - The internal sanction of duty, whatever our standard of duty may be, is one and the same, — a feeling' in our own mind; a pain, more or less intense, attendant on violation of duty, which, in properly cultivated moral natures, rises in the more serious cases into shrinking from it as an impossiLility.
Page 52 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Page 235 - ... for every fact of consciousness, whether in the domain of sense, of thought, or of emotion, a certain definite molecular condition is set up in the brain...
Page 59 - The gravity, solidity, age, and probity of so great an emperor, who through the whole course of his life, conversed in a familiar manner, with his friends and courtiers, and never affected those extraordinary airs of divinity assumed by Alexander and Demetrius.
Page 243 - God! — Know of a truth that only the Time-shadows have perished, or are perishable; that the real Being of whatever was, and whatever is, and whatever will be, is even now and forever.
Page 140 - The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would she have heart to endure for the life of the worm and the fly ? She desires no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a summer sky : Give her the wages of going on, and not to die.
Page 248 - Back to thy hell ! Thou hast no power upon me, that I feel; Thou never shall possess me, that I know: What I have done is done; I bear within A torture which could nothing gain from thine : The mind which is immortal makes itself Requital for its good or evil thoughts...
Page 225 - But the principle or inclination in one case is self-love ; in the other, hatred or love of another. There is then a distinction between the cool principle of self-love, or general desire of our own happiness, as one part of our nature, and one principle of action ; and the particular affections towards particular external objects, as another part of our nature, and another principle of action.
Page 193 - It is therefore evident there can be no substratum of those qualities but spirit; in which they exist, not by way of mode or property, but as a thing perceived in that which perceives it.