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... selfish " will . " Goethe observes : " The first and last thing that is demanded of genius is love of truth . " No one will deny that both Schopenhauer and Goethe are entitled to speak with some authority in this matter , for each of ...
... selfish " will . " Goethe observes : " The first and last thing that is demanded of genius is love of truth . " No one will deny that both Schopenhauer and Goethe are entitled to speak with some authority in this matter , for each of ...
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... selfish will . -- — Now , does the lion behave subjectively or objectively on perceiving the gazelle ? Subjectively , it is clear . According to Schopenhauer , by subjectivity is meant " the tendency of the mind directed to one's own ...
... selfish will . -- — Now , does the lion behave subjectively or objectively on perceiving the gazelle ? Subjectively , it is clear . According to Schopenhauer , by subjectivity is meant " the tendency of the mind directed to one's own ...
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... selfish business - interest in it ; he has only seen that there is " money in it . " In looking at the forest , he dwelt upon it only as long as was necessary for him to calculate its possible advantage to himself . The shifting lights ...
... selfish business - interest in it ; he has only seen that there is " money in it . " In looking at the forest , he dwelt upon it only as long as was necessary for him to calculate its possible advantage to himself . The shifting lights ...
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... selfish interest , he becomes narrowed and confined , therefore , in the use of his senses by his natural selfishness . Whatever does not minister to his self - seeking , he neither sees nor hears ; it has no exist- ence for him . He is ...
... selfish interest , he becomes narrowed and confined , therefore , in the use of his senses by his natural selfishness . Whatever does not minister to his self - seeking , he neither sees nor hears ; it has no exist- ence for him . He is ...
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... selfish , personal interest in the object , but only an ideal , objective one ; that he is in fact a man of genius , at least during those moments of objective con- templation . The genius is distinguished from the ordinary , average ...
... selfish , personal interest in the object , but only an ideal , objective one ; that he is in fact a man of genius , at least during those moments of objective con- templation . The genius is distinguished from the ordinary , average ...
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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!