 | Johann Eduard Erdmann - Philosophy, Modern - 1840 - 460 pages
...busy mind of man , to be mare cautions in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension, to shop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether and...ignorance of those things, which upon examination we found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. — Thus men extending their enquiries beyond their... | |
 | Victor Cousin - Psychology - 1842 - 488 pages
...investigations : BI Ch. I. § 4. — " If, by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding, 1 can discover the powers thereof, how far \ they reach,...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. We should not then perhaps be so forward, out of an affectation of an universal knowledge, to raise... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 588 pages
...it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with tilings exceeding its comprehension, to stop when it is at...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. We should not then, perhaps, be so forward, out of an affectation of an universal knowledge, to raise... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - Christianity - 1849 - 338 pages
...things ' which exceed its comprehension, to stop when it is at ' the utmost extent of its tether, and sit down in a quiet ' ignorance of those things which...' found to be beyond the reach of our capacities.' That this modest and quiet wisdom should be little acceptable to French Eclectics or German Transcendentalists... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...exceeding its comprehension, to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether, and to sit down in quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are found to be above the reach of our capacities. We should not then, perhaps, be so prone, out of affectation of... | |
 | Claude Henri Victor Cousin - 1852 - 464 pages
...philosophy, and, at the same time, of encouraging useful investigations. Chap. IV. " If, by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding, I can discover...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. We should not then, perhaps, be so forward, out of an affectation of a universal knowledge, to raise... | |
 | 1858 - 422 pages
...with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its compreliension, to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether,...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities." And again : " For I thought that the first step towards satisfying several inquiries the mind of man... | |
 | John Locke - 1853 - 588 pages
...reasons and degrees of assent. 4. Useful to know the extent of our comprehension. — If by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding, I can discover...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. We should not then, perhaps, be so forward, out of an affectation of an universal knowledge, to raise... | |
 | Victor Cousin - Philosophy - 1853 - 444 pages
...repressing the rashness of philosophy, and, at the same time, of encouraging useful investigations. ing its comprehension; to stop when it is at the utmost...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. We should not then, perhaps, be so forward, out of an affectation of a universal knowledge, to raise... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
...us ; I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in mecMling with things exceeding its comprehension ; to stop...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. We should not then, perhaps, be so forward, out of an affectation of a universal knowledge, to raise... | |
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If by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding, I can discover the powers thereof; how far they reach; to what things they are in any degree proportionate; and where they fail us, I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man... 
