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... direct the animal's instinct to satisfy his hunger . The general idea of an object of prey , combined with the visual sensation , forms a guide for the animal's instinct . The general idea , thought , or conception , is like a switchman ...
... direct the animal's instinct to satisfy his hunger . The general idea of an object of prey , combined with the visual sensation , forms a guide for the animal's instinct . The general idea , thought , or conception , is like a switchman ...
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... direct- ed . The lion is not pleased with the mere sight of the graceful gazelle , because it is not the sight of the gazelle he wishes for , but its flesh and blood . If he saw the gazelle without being able to approach it , the sight ...
... direct- ed . The lion is not pleased with the mere sight of the graceful gazelle , because it is not the sight of the gazelle he wishes for , but its flesh and blood . If he saw the gazelle without being able to approach it , the sight ...
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... direct our attention to those points in the object that are interesting to us , whereas we neglect or at most only superficially notice those features in which we take no interest . When we love an object , we see with interest ...
... direct our attention to those points in the object that are interesting to us , whereas we neglect or at most only superficially notice those features in which we take no interest . When we love an object , we see with interest ...
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... direct , practical value for the observer . Is the butcher interested in the fine anatomical struc- ture of the animal he is slaughtering ? Certainly not , he sees only what his trade demands , the amount of meat , fat , and bone he can ...
... direct , practical value for the observer . Is the butcher interested in the fine anatomical struc- ture of the animal he is slaughtering ? Certainly not , he sees only what his trade demands , the amount of meat , fat , and bone he can ...
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... direct their venom also against science and truth , and both in doing so bear witness to the fact that love and truth are one , just as love and beauty are one , and that the subversion of either includes that of the other . Deny love ...
... direct their venom also against science and truth , and both in doing so bear witness to the fact that love and truth are one , just as love and beauty are one , and that the subversion of either includes that of the other . Deny love ...
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A. H. Clough according action activity æsthetic Alving Anaxarchus antisopher artist ascetic ideal asceticism attain beauty become Borkman Brand Buddha called Christ complete conception creative Dead Awaken death delight desire disinterested divine earthly egoist endeavour Epimetheus eternal everything evil existence expression eyes father Faust fear feeling finite freedom Friedrich Nietzsche genius Ghosts Goethe Hamlet hand happiness heart heaven Hence Hesiod higher highest hope and fear human Ibsen idea imperfect impulse individual infinite inner instinct interest Jesus John Gabriel Borkman King Claudius Laertes live Lombroso Manfred manner means mental Mephistopheles mind moral Napoleon nature Nietzsche Nietzsche's Nirvâna noble object one's outward perfect Plutarch possess realise reality recognise revenge Rubek says Schopenhauer seeks self-seeking selfish sensation sense soul Spinoza spirit Stirner striving superman thee things thou thought true truth unity unto whole woman words Zeus
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Page 95 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 129 - But he answered and said unto him that told him; "Who is my mother? and who are my brethren ?" And he stretched forth his hand towards his disciples, and said ; " Behold, my mother, and my brethren.
Page 235 - Get thee to a nunnery; Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in. imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.
Page 112 - Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Page 88 - Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command...
Page 265 - Honour thy " 'father, and thy mother;' and, ' Whoso curseth father, or, " ' mother, let him die the death : ' " but, ye say, ' If a man " ' shall say to his father, or, mother, It is Corban,' (that is " to say, a gift,) ' by whatsoever thou mightest be profited "
Page 102 - tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all : Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows, what is't to leave betimes ?
Page 119 - Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep, while to my shame I see, The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds...
Page 258 - And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things.
Page 116 - Still am I call'd. — Unhand me, gentlemen. By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me!