The World as Will and Idea: Containing the criticism of the Kantian philosophy and the supplements to the first book and part of the second book of volume IRoutledge & Kegan Paul, 1886 - Idea (Philosophy) |
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absolutely abstract conceptions abstract knowledge according accordingly already antinomy apodictic appears apprehended arises Aristotle Arrian assertion becomes belongs body brain brutes cause ception certainly CHIG conditioned connection consciousness consequently contrary copula Critique of Pure Descartes directly distinct doctrine edition effect entirely error essential everything example existence experience explained exposition expressed external world fact faculty false function fundamental further given Goethe hand idea inner intellect intuitive intuitive knowledge judgment Kant Kant's Kantian kind knowledge of perception law of causality logical matter means merely metalogical metaphysics MICHI mind motives nature nerves never object organism origin perceived pheno phenomena phenomenon philosophy Plato possible predicate present principle of sufficient priori proof proposition Pure Reason recognise reflection regard relation says Scholasticism sensation sense sophisms space spinal cord sufficient reason table of judgments theism things thinking thought tion transcendental true truth uncon understanding UNIV whole words
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Page 282 - ... that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of. I will leave him and suddenly contrive the means of meeting between him and my daughter. — My honourable lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you. Ham. You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal, — except my life, except my life, except my life.
Page 258 - No more — no more — Oh ! never more on me The freshness of the heart can fall like dew, Which out of all the lovely things we see Extracts emotions beautiful and new, Hived in our bosoms like the bag o' the bee : Think'st thou the honey with those objects grew ? • Alas!
Page 273 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
Page 98 - He used to thank the gods for three things ; that he was born a reasonable creature, and not a beast ; a man, and not a woman ; a Greek, and not a Barbarian.
Page 374 - The uneasiness which keeps the never-resting clock of metaphysics in motion, is the consciousness that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence.
Page 446 - His acute observation of human life made him remark, " Sir, there is nothing by which a man exasperates most people more, than by displaying a superior ability of brilliancy in conversation. They seem pleased at the time ; but their -envy makes them curse him at their hearts.
Page 364 - By metaphysics I understand all knowledge that pretends to transcend the possibility of experience, thus to transcend nature or the given phenomenal appearance of things, in order to give an explanation of that by which, in some sense or other, this experience or nature is conditioned ; or, to speak in popular language, of that which is behind nature, and makes it possible.
Page 22 - But the height of audacity, in serving up pure nonsense, in stringing together senseless and extravagant mazes of words, such as had previously only been heard in madhouses, was finally reached in Hegel, and became the instrument of the most barefaced general mystification that has ever taken place, with a result which will appear fabulous to posterity, and will remain as a monument of German stupidity.
Page 22 - Is always for the wise, no less than fools, a mystery. The art is old and new, for verily All ages have been taught the matter, — By Three and One, and One and Three, Error instead of Truth to scatter. They prate and teach, and no one interferes ; All from the fellowship of fools are shrinking. Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking ! THE WITCH (continues).
Page 382 - With naturalism, then, or the purely physical way of looking at things, we shall never attain our end ; it is like a sum that never comes out. Causal series without beginning or end, fundamental forces which are inscrutable, endless space, beginningless time, infinite divisibility of matter, and all this further conditioned by a knowing brain, in which alone it exists just like a dream, and without which it vanishes — constitute the labyrinth in which naturalism leads us ceaselessly round.