Tertium Organum: The Third Canon of Thought; a Key to the Enigmas of the WorldA. A. Knopf, 1922 - 336 pagini |
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Pagina viii
... moving planes . Angles and curves considered as motion . The third dimension as motion . The animal's two - dimensional view of our three - dimensional world . The animal as a real two - dimensional being . Lower animals as one ...
... moving planes . Angles and curves considered as motion . The third dimension as motion . The animal's two - dimensional view of our three - dimensional world . The animal as a real two - dimensional being . Lower animals as one ...
Pagina 35
... moving in a direction contained in it , a line will continue to be a line . The surface , moving in space , and leaving a tracing of its move- ment , the solid , moves also in a direction not contained in it . If it should move ...
... moving in a direction contained in it , a line will continue to be a line . The surface , moving in space , and leaving a tracing of its move- ment , the solid , moves also in a direction not contained in it . If it should move ...
Pagina 38
... moving in space , moves eternally in time . And equally in all cases , whether speaking of motion or absence of motion , we have in mind an idea of what was before , what now becomes , and what will follow after . In other words , we ...
... moving in space , moves eternally in time . And equally in all cases , whether speaking of motion or absence of motion , we have in mind an idea of what was before , what now becomes , and what will follow after . In other words , we ...
Pagina 41
... moving upon a plane , and recognize as really existing only the small circle lighted by our consciousness . Everything out of this circle , which we do not see , we negate ; we do not like to admit that it exists . We are moving upon ...
... moving upon a plane , and recognize as really existing only the small circle lighted by our consciousness . Everything out of this circle , which we do not see , we negate ; we do not like to admit that it exists . We are moving upon ...
Pagina 42
... moving ; it can see far beyond the limits of the circle enlightened by our usual consciousness ; it can see that not only does the line upon which we are moving exist , but also all lines perpendicular to it which we are intersecting ...
... moving ; it can see far beyond the limits of the circle enlightened by our usual consciousness ; it can see that not only does the line upon which we are moving exist , but also all lines perpendicular to it which we are intersecting ...
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Pagina 164 - Better to be the poor servant of a poor master," and to endure anything, rather than think as they do and live after their manner? Yes, he said, I think that he would rather suffer anything than entertain these false notions and live in this miserable manner.
Pagina 297 - One conclusion was forced upon my mind at that time, and my impression of its truth has ever since remained unshaken. It is that our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
Pagina 276 - He becomes conscious that this higher part is conterminous and continuous with a MORE of the same quality, which is operative in the universe outside of him, and which he can keep in working touch with, and in a fashion get on board of and save himself when all his lower being has gone to pieces in the wreck.
Pagina 277 - Let me then propose, as an hypothesis, that whatever it may be on its farther side, the "more" with which in religious experience we feel ourselves connected is on its hither side the subconscious continuation of our conscious life.
Pagina 163 - You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners. Like ourselves, I replied; and they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the caver True, he said; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
Pagina 162 - Behold ! human beings living in a sort of underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all across the den; they have been here from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them; for the chains are arranged in such a manner as to prevent them from turning round their heads.
Pagina 163 - And suppose further that the prison had an echo which came from the other side, would they not be sure to fancy when one of the passers-by spoke that the voice which they heard came from the passing shadow?
Pagina 299 - The truth is that we travel on a journey that was accomplished before we set out; and the real end of philosophy is accomplished, not when we arrive at, but when we remain in, our destination (being already there), — which may occur vicariously in this life when we cease our intellectual questioning.
Pagina 164 - ... and the years, and is the guardian of all that is in the visible world, and in a certain way the cause of all things which he and his fellows have been accustomed to behold ? Clearly, he said, he would first see the sun and then reason about him.
Pagina 163 - ... more real existence, he has a clearer vision - what will be his reply? And you may further imagine that his instructor is pointing to the objects as they pass and requiring him to name them - will he not be perplexed? Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him?