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... thought , was a very good thing , because of the tendency among philosophers to attack common - sense opinions and set up idols of their own in place of them . This could only be counteracted by a little more philosophy , which was ...
... thought , was a very good thing , because of the tendency among philosophers to attack common - sense opinions and set up idols of their own in place of them . This could only be counteracted by a little more philosophy , which was ...
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... thoughts , which are mere thoughts . They enter into life , and they tend to make life one - sided and disorderly . We hear a great deal , for instance , of political corruption in America ; but if we look a little closer , we see , and ...
... thoughts , which are mere thoughts . They enter into life , and they tend to make life one - sided and disorderly . We hear a great deal , for instance , of political corruption in America ; but if we look a little closer , we see , and ...
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... thought - made our own , by our having thought it through . The answer to speakers like those I have quoted is PHILOSOPHY AND LIFE . 13.
... thought - made our own , by our having thought it through . The answer to speakers like those I have quoted is PHILOSOPHY AND LIFE . 13.
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... thought from other people's systems . " " Anything , " he says , " presents every kind of pro- blem . " All roads lead to Rome ; all subjects followed . far enough will take us to the centre . They lead to the Whole ; and philosophy is ...
... thought from other people's systems . " " Anything , " he says , " presents every kind of pro- blem . " All roads lead to Rome ; all subjects followed . far enough will take us to the centre . They lead to the Whole ; and philosophy is ...
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... thought , just for that reason we have the more to regret , for we know what we have lost . As one who had the privilege of reckoning himself among the comparatively small number of Wallace's intimate friends , I may , perhaps , be ...
... thought , just for that reason we have the more to regret , for we know what we have lost . As one who had the privilege of reckoning himself among the comparatively small number of Wallace's intimate friends , I may , perhaps , be ...
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Page 140 - And if he is compelled to look straight at the light, will he not have a pain in his eyes which will make him turn away to take refuge in the objects of vision which he can see, and which he will conceive to be in reality clearer than the things which are now being shown to him ? True, he said.
Page 42 - Ah! if I could show you this! if I could show you these men and women, all the world over, in every stage of history, under every abuse of error, under every circumstance of failure, without hope, without help, without thanks, still obscurely fighting the lost fight of virtue, still clinging, in the brothel or on the scaffold, to some rag of honor, the poor jewel of their souls...
Page 52 - To be honest, to be kind — to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation — above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself — here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.
Page 139 - Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will see, if you look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette players have in front of them, over which they show the puppets.
Page 140 - At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows...
Page 140 - You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners. Like ourselves, I replied; and they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the caver True, he said; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
Page 139 - Behold! human beings living in an underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads.
Page 261 - If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.
Page 42 - Of all earth's meteors, here at least is the most strange and consoling: that this ennobled lemur, this hair-crowned bubble of the dust, this inheritor of a few years and sorrows, should yet deny himself his rare delights, and add to his frequent pains, and live for an ideal, however misconceived.
Page 140 - ... the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves; then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven and he will see the sky and the stars by night better than the sun or the light of the sun by day?