Pessimism: A History and a CriticismH.S. King, 1877 - 477 pagini |
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... Intelligence and as action of blind force - Relation of our problem to that of Scep- ticism - Problem not solved by adopting the view of the world as beauty and harmony - Nor by adopting the view of the world as the realisation of a ...
... Intelligence and as action of blind force - Relation of our problem to that of Scep- ticism - Problem not solved by adopting the view of the world as beauty and harmony - Nor by adopting the view of the world as the realisation of a ...
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... intelligence ( vous ) , as by Anaxagoras , now to a reconciliation of conflicting impulses , as by Heraclitus , and now to a beneficent formative principle- love - as by Empedocles , and in this way a final optimistic solution was in a ...
... intelligence ( vous ) , as by Anaxagoras , now to a reconciliation of conflicting impulses , as by Heraclitus , and now to a beneficent formative principle- love - as by Empedocles , and in this way a final optimistic solution was in a ...
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... Intelligence persuading necessity to be fashioned according to excellence1 ; and in his notion of a future and perfect state for the soul . It may be said , indeed , that these ideas constitute a system of optimism which has hardly been ...
... Intelligence persuading necessity to be fashioned according to excellence1 ; and in his notion of a future and perfect state for the soul . It may be said , indeed , that these ideas constitute a system of optimism which has hardly been ...
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... intelligence , which is infinite , and which is immanent in the infinite universe , constituting its sustaining activity . The infinite All contains an infinite number of worlds , each of which is perfect in its kind , and the totality ...
... intelligence , which is infinite , and which is immanent in the infinite universe , constituting its sustaining activity . The infinite All contains an infinite number of worlds , each of which is perfect in its kind , and the totality ...
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... intelligence , and his lively sense of irony , he could not well overlook the facts which tell or seem to tell on the other side . In some places , indeed , he writes in a thoroughly pessimistic vein , as when he says , ' Le bonheur n ...
... intelligence , and his lively sense of irony , he could not well overlook the facts which tell or seem to tell on the other side . In some places , indeed , he writes in a thoroughly pessimistic vein , as when he says , ' Le bonheur n ...
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Pagina 17 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
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Pagina 321 - Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and— sans End! Alike for those who for TODAY prepare, And those that after some TOMORROW stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries, 'Fools, your Reward is neither Here nor There.
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Pagina 16 - Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
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Pagina 24 - Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, 'Tis something better not to be.
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