A Student's History of Philosophy |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 50
Page 17
... complete . Everything is forever passing into something else , and has an existence only in relation to this process . " Fire lives the death of earth , and air lives the death of fire ; water lives the death of air , earth that of ...
... complete . Everything is forever passing into something else , and has an existence only in relation to this process . " Fire lives the death of earth , and air lives the death of fire ; water lives the death of air , earth that of ...
Page 27
... way to bring about a complete intermixture of the different elements , " as a baker cementing barley meal with water . " Hate breaks up this intermixture , and brings elements of the same kind together . The history Greek Philosophy 27.
... way to bring about a complete intermixture of the different elements , " as a baker cementing barley meal with water . " Hate breaks up this intermixture , and brings elements of the same kind together . The history Greek Philosophy 27.
Page 28
... complete discord , and complete harmony . It is difficult to interpret this obscure conception of Love and Hate with any great precision . In modern terms , it perhaps stands most nearly for what we should name the forces of attrac ...
... complete discord , and complete harmony . It is difficult to interpret this obscure conception of Love and Hate with any great precision . In modern terms , it perhaps stands most nearly for what we should name the forces of attrac ...
Page 52
... complete on this all - important point , we have no energy to spare for guesses about non- essentials . The carpenter , the smith , the flute - player , the pilot , each knows his own business . He trains himself for one definite thing ...
... complete on this all - important point , we have no energy to spare for guesses about non- essentials . The carpenter , the smith , the flute - player , the pilot , each knows his own business . He trains himself for one definite thing ...
Page 55
... complete contra- diction between their own views , and the popular beliefs , the two evidently could not be on the same plane . The method of Socrates supplied a way of conceiving in what the dis- tinctiveness of thought consists . If ...
... complete contra- diction between their own views , and the popular beliefs , the two evidently could not be on the same plane . The method of Socrates supplied a way of conceiving in what the dis- tinctiveness of thought consists . If ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
absolute abstract accordingly agnosticism Anaxagoras Aristippus Aristotle attained attempt belief body cause Christianity Church conceive conception concrete connection consciousness Cyrenaics Deism Descartes distinct doctrine dogmatic dualism Empedocles Epicureans Epicurus ethical everything evil existence experience external fact feeling finite freedom give Greek Greek philosophy Hegel Heracleitus human Hume ideal ideas imagination impression individual influence innate intellectual Kant knowledge Leibniz live logical man's matter means ment metaphysical mind modern monads moral nature necessary Neo-Platonism never notion objects ourselves Parmenides particular perceive perception philosophy Plato pleasure Plotinus position possible principle problem Protagoras purely rational reality reason relation religion religious represent result scepticism Scholasticism scientific sensation sense simple social society Socrates soul Spinoza spirit Stoicism Stoics substance supposed tendency theory things thought tion true truth ultimate unity universe virtue whole Xenophanes
Popular passages
Page 370 - For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call "myself," I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch "myself" at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.
Page 333 - How comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE. In that all our knowledge is founded; and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Page 348 - IT is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the senses; or else such as are perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind; or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory and imagination— either compounding, dividing, or barely representing those originally perceived in the aforesaid ways.
Page 325 - The commonwealth of learning is not at this time without master-builders, whose mighty designs, in advancing the sciences, will leave lasting monuments to the admiration of posterity: but every one must not hope to be a Boyle or a Sydenham; and in an age that produces such masters as the great Huygenius and the incomparable Mr. Newton...
Page 356 - But, whatever power I may have over my own thoughts, I find the ideas actually perceived by Sense have not a like dependence on my will. When in broad daylight I open my eyes, it is not in my power to choose whether I shall see or no, or to determine what particular objects shall present themselves to my view...
Page 332 - ... whiteness, hardness, sweetness, thinking, motion, man, elephant, army, drunkenness, and others : it is in the first place then to be inquired, how he comes by them...
Page 235 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or...
Page 235 - ... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 369 - THERE are some philosophers who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our self; that we feel its existence and its continuance in existence; and are certain, beyond the evidence of a demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity.
Page 246 - The passions that incline men to peace are: fear of death; desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living; and a hope by their industry to obtain them.