The Religious Aspect of Philosophy: A Critique of the Bases of Conduct and of Faith, Volume 3Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885 - 484 pages |
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accept actual Adeimantos agnosticism altruism answer Buddhism chapter conceived conception conflict conscience consciousness criticism desire doubt duty egoism emotion error ethical evil evolution existence experience expression external reality external world faith Faust feel Friedrich Schlegel give Glaucon happiness harmony hedonism Hegel higher highest human hypothesis ical idea idealist illusion individual infinite J. S. Mill Jesus judge judgment lives means ment Mephistopheles merely mind monism moral code moral ideal moral insight moral skepticism nature neighbor ness notion object once ourselves pain perfect philosophic skepticism philosophy physical fact pity Plato possible postulate present problem progress question rational real world realize reason relation religion religious rhinoceros rience Schopenhauer seek seems selfish separate simply skepticism soul spirit supposed sure thee Theism theoretic philosophy theoretical theory things thou thought tion true truth unity universal unselfish whole wholly worth
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Page 219 - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! That I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.
Page 219 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.
Page 116 - When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead — When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed. When the lute is broken, Sweet tones are remembered not; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot.
Page 340 - Now it is plain they have an existence exterior to my mind, since I find them by experience to be independent of it. There is therefore some other mind wherein they exist during the intervals between the times of my perceiving them, as likewise they did before my birth, and would do after my supposed annihilation.
Page 340 - When I deny sensible things an existence out of the mind, I do not mean my mind in particular, but all minds. Now it is plain they have an existence exterior to my mind, since I find them by experience to be independent of it.
Page 158 - He seems to thee a little less living than thou; his life is dim, it is cold, it is a pale fire beside thy own burning desires.... So, dimly and by instinct hast thou lived with thy neighbor, and hast known him not, being blind. Thou hast made [of him] a thing, no Self at all. Have done with this illusion...
Page 424 - Either there is no such thing as error, which statement is a fiat self-contradiction, or else there is an infinite unity of conscious thought to which is present all possible truth. For suppose that there is error. Then there must be an infinite mass of error possible. If error is possible at all, then as many errors are possible as you please, since, to every truth, an indefinite mass of error may be opposed. Nor is this mere possibility enough. An error is possible for us when we are able to make...
Page 121 - Thou didst not tempt me, and thou couldst not tempt me ; I have not been thy dupe nor am thy prey, But was my own destroyer, and will be My own hereafter. — Back, ye baffled fiends! The hand of death is on me — but not yours ! [The Demons disappear.