Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 36
... wisdom these facts or questions of time , serve them . Facts encumber them , tyrannize over them , and make the men of routine , the men of sense , in whom a literal obe- dience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by ...
... wisdom these facts or questions of time , serve them . Facts encumber them , tyrannize over them , and make the men of routine , the men of sense , in whom a literal obe- dience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by ...
Page 58
... wisdom never to rely on your mem- ory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judgment into the thou- sand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your metaphysics you have denied personality to ...
... wisdom never to rely on your mem- ory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judgment into the thou- sand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your metaphysics you have denied personality to ...
Page 64
... wisdom as Intui- tion , whilst all later teachings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not ...
... wisdom as Intui- tion , whilst all later teachings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not ...
Page 65
... wisdom and which cannot be denied without im- piety and atheism . We lie in the lap of immense intelligence , which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity . When we discern jus- tice , when we discern truth , we do ...
... wisdom and which cannot be denied without im- piety and atheism . We lie in the lap of immense intelligence , which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity . When we discern jus- tice , when we discern truth , we do ...
Page 66
... wisdom , old things pass away , means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , one as much as an- other . All things are ...
... wisdom , old things pass away , means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , one as much as an- other . All things are ...
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