Montaigne: The Endless Study... |
Common terms and phrases
admiration admit adorable apostle appear atheism Bâle beautiful become believe blessing character Christian church comprehend conscience conviction death deism deny discourse divine doctrine doubt doubtless duty earth egoism Ephesian eternal everything evil existence eyes fact faith Father feeble feel French language gifts give glory gospel grace happiness heart heaven Holy Spirit honor hope human idea individual infinite intellect interest Jesus Christ Jouffroy justice kingdom of heaven knowledge less light ligion live means mind Montaigne moral myste mysteries nature necessary never obedience obey object opinion ourselves Pantheism perfect perfect law perhaps persons philosophical possess principle prove reality reason receive reference relations religion religious render revelation salvation Saviour scepticism seek sense sentiment society soul speak sphere Switzerland thee things thou thought tion true truth Vaud Vinet virtue whole wisdom word
Popular passages
Page 74 - Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.
Page 76 - I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser, who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within ? my friend suggested : " But these impulses may be from below, not from above.
Page 73 - The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of that which must be, is that great nature in which we rest as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere ; that Unity, that Over-soul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other...
Page 397 - And the eye cannot say to the hand, ' I have no need of thee ' ; nor again the head to the feet,
Page xxx - Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect, yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought.
Page 230 - Instruction should proceed from the known to the unknown, from the simple to the complex, from concrete to abstract notions, from analysis to synthesis.
Page 286 - Do we make void the law through faith ? God forbid : yea, we establish the law.
Page 226 - Wherefore it behooved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
Page 77 - They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
Page 217 - And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting Gospel to preach to them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people...