Pessimism: A History and a CriticismH.S. King, 1877 - 477 pagini |
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... seems clear , then , that if we wish fully to understand the new and speculative pessimism , we must study it in connection with the much older and unsystematised creed . Nor can we stop here . The meaning and origin of what I have ...
... seems clear , then , that if we wish fully to understand the new and speculative pessimism , we must study it in connection with the much older and unsystematised creed . Nor can we stop here . The meaning and origin of what I have ...
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... seems unnecessary and even ridiculous . The bulk of mankind pursue their various ends as a matter of course , and never raise the question whether the result will com- pensate for all the toil . The child gazes out into its far ...
... seems unnecessary and even ridiculous . The bulk of mankind pursue their various ends as a matter of course , and never raise the question whether the result will com- pensate for all the toil . The child gazes out into its far ...
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... seems to us now to be evil - for example , pain - is only evil in appearance . In reality it is a part of the right and good ordering of affairs . The illustrations of this method of disposing of the problem of evil form a curious ...
... seems to us now to be evil - for example , pain - is only evil in appearance . In reality it is a part of the right and good ordering of affairs . The illustrations of this method of disposing of the problem of evil form a curious ...
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... seems to show that the idea of human deteriora- tion though logically making for a pessimistic tone of mind , did not exert all the depressing influence of which it was capable . If we pass to the more speculative thought of the Greeks ...
... seems to show that the idea of human deteriora- tion though logically making for a pessimistic tone of mind , did not exert all the depressing influence of which it was capable . If we pass to the more speculative thought of the Greeks ...
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... seems to be pessimistic . Yet Christianity avoids the asceticism of India and of Alexandria . It does so by the doctrine that evil is not a permanent and indestruc- tible ingredient of existence . Evil did not arise , as in the THE ...
... seems to be pessimistic . Yet Christianity avoids the asceticism of India and of Alexandria . It does so by the doctrine that evil is not a permanent and indestruc- tible ingredient of existence . Evil did not arise , as in the THE ...
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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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