 | Leon Roth - 1924 - 160 pages
...and, in the following chapter (p. 109), of the understanding as being ' passive, an awareness in the soul of the essence and existence of things, so that...that affirms or denies, in us, something of itself '. If thought and rea'ity are the same, it makes little difference By ridding himself of the passive... | |
 | Anne Dufourmantelle - 2007 - 142 pages
...in the soul, of essence and existence; so that it is not we who ever affirm or deny anything about a thing but it is the thing itself that affirms or denies something. It is thought that thinks us, and not the other way around! Since no affirmation and no... | |
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For we have said that the understanding is purely passive; it is an awareness, in the soul, of the essence and existence of things; so that it is never we who affirm or deny something of a thing, but it is the thing itself that affirms or denies, in us,... 