A Student's History of Philosophy

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Macmillan, 1907 - 511 pages
 

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Page 369 - There are some philosophers who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our SELF ; that we feel its existence, and its continuance in existence ; and are certain, beyond the evidence of a demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity. . . . For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble
Page 235 - restless spirit ; or a tarasse for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the creator, and the relief of man's estate.
Page 235 - to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men. As if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a restless spirit ; or a tarasse for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a
Page 235 - and delight, sometimes for ornament and reputation, sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction, and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men. As if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a
Page 335 - Secondly, such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities, ie, by the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colors, sounds, tastes, etc., these I call secondary qualities.
Page 247 - The desires and other passions of men are in themselves no sin ; no more are the actions that proceed from those passions, till they know a law that forbids them, which, till laws be made, they cannot know ; nor can any law be made till they have agreed upon the person that shall make it.
Page 334 - is not in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged understanding, by any quickness or variety of thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the ways before mentioned : nor can any force of the understanding destroy those that are there.
Page 403 - The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders,
Page 246 - journey, he arms himself, and seeks to go well accompanied; when going to sleep, he locks his doors; when even in his house, he locks his chests ; and this when he knows there be laws and public officers armed to revenge all injuries shall be done him.
Page 340 - It is evident that the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge, therefore, is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of

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