The Man of Genius |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 70
Page 34
... turns out by the thousand every day , is , as we have said , not capable , at least not continuously so , of observation that in every sense is wholly disinterested , as contem- plation , strictly so - called is . He can turn his atten ...
... turns out by the thousand every day , is , as we have said , not capable , at least not continuously so , of observation that in every sense is wholly disinterested , as contem- plation , strictly so - called is . He can turn his atten ...
Page 40
... turn the crank of the little dynamo vigorously , the electric incandescent lamp radiates the brightest light . The light that reaches our eye from the most distant fixed star , from the remot- est nebula in space , as we gaze rapt in ...
... turn the crank of the little dynamo vigorously , the electric incandescent lamp radiates the brightest light . The light that reaches our eye from the most distant fixed star , from the remot- est nebula in space , as we gaze rapt in ...
Page 43
... turns ever to the north pole , the readiness with which iron flies to the magnet , the eagerness with which the electric poles seek to be re - united , and which , just like human desire , is increased by obstacles ; if we Ihr greifet ...
... turns ever to the north pole , the readiness with which iron flies to the magnet , the eagerness with which the electric poles seek to be re - united , and which , just like human desire , is increased by obstacles ; if we Ihr greifet ...
Page 50
... turn , of one mind , in the same magic dance , Till measure , and e'en time itself , Sink at death in the boundless , glowing sea . Friendless was the great world's Master ; And feeling this , He made the spirit world , Blessed mirrors ...
... turn , of one mind , in the same magic dance , Till measure , and e'en time itself , Sink at death in the boundless , glowing sea . Friendless was the great world's Master ; And feeling this , He made the spirit world , Blessed mirrors ...
Page 85
... turn the scale , misses the most essential of all , because he is too much occupied with secondary matters . The philistine attempts to play the part of Providence , to gather all the threads of events into his own hands , and therefore ...
... turn the scale , misses the most essential of all , because he is too much occupied with secondary matters . The philistine attempts to play the part of Providence , to gather all the threads of events into his own hands , and therefore ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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
Popular passages
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!