The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular PhilosophyLongmans, Green, 1896 - 332 páginas |
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Página viii
... reason can do has been done , there still remains the opacity of the finite facts as merely given , with most of their pecu- liarities mutually unmediated and unexplained . To the very last , there are the various ' points of view ...
... reason can do has been done , there still remains the opacity of the finite facts as merely given , with most of their pecu- liarities mutually unmediated and unexplained . To the very last , there are the various ' points of view ...
Página ix
... reason and won- der blushed face to face . The inevitable stales , while doubt and hope are sisters . Not unfortunately the universe is wild , -game - flavored as a hawk's wing . Nature is miracle all ; the same returns not save to ...
... reason and won- der blushed face to face . The inevitable stales , while doubt and hope are sisters . Not unfortunately the universe is wild , -game - flavored as a hawk's wing . Nature is miracle all ; the same returns not save to ...
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... reason cannot say . A game is going on between you and the nature of things which at the day of judg- ment will bring out either heads or tails . Weigh what your gains and your losses would be if you should stake all you have on heads ...
... reason cannot say . A game is going on between you and the nature of things which at the day of judg- ment will bring out either heads or tails . Weigh what your gains and your losses would be if you should stake all you have on heads ...
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... reason to believe , because it may be to their ad- vantage so to pretend [ the word ' pretend ' is surely here redundant ] , they will not have reached the low- est depth of immorality . " And that delicious enfant The Will to Believe ...
... reason to believe , because it may be to their ad- vantage so to pretend [ the word ' pretend ' is surely here redundant ] , they will not have reached the low- est depth of immorality . " And that delicious enfant The Will to Believe ...
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... reason is what then settles our opinions , he would fly quite as directly in the teeth of the facts . It is only our already dead hypotheses that our willing nature is unable to bring to life again . But what has made them dead for us ...
... reason is what then settles our opinions , he would fly quite as directly in the teeth of the facts . It is only our already dead hypotheses that our willing nature is unable to bring to life again . But what has made them dead for us ...
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A. R. Wallace absolute abstract actually appears believe better casuistic chance character conceiving conception concrete consciousness course demands determinism deterministic divine doubt Edmund Gurney emotional empiricism empiricist environment escape essence eternal ethical evidence evil existence experience fact faith feel genius give gnosticism Grant Allen heart Hegel hegelian human hypothesis ideal identity indeterminism individual infinite intellectual judgment kind living logical matter means mediumship ment mental mind monism mood moral moral universe nature of things negation ness never notion object option outward passion pessimism phenomena philosopher physical point of view possible practical principle prove pure question rational reason reflex action regret relations religion religious result rience scepticism scientific seems sense simply sort space subjectivism suppose telepathy theism theoretic theory thinker thou thought tion true truth unity universe whole word
Pasajes populares
Página 162 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Página 27 - There are, then, cases where a fact cannot come at all unless a preliminary faith exists in its coming. And where faith in a fact can help create the fact, that would be an insane logic which should say that faith running ahead of scientific evidence is the 'lowest kind of immorality' into which a thinking being can fall.
Página 76 - Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love...
Página 231 - They parted - ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Página 64 - These then are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Página 217 - It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? but the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Página 215 - He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha ; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting.
Página 46 - Despicable biped ! what is .the sum-total of the worst that lies before thee ? Death ? Well, Death ; and say the pangs of Tophet too, and all that the Devil and Man may, will or can do against thee ! Hast thou not a heart ; canst thou not suffer whatsoever it be ; and, as a Child of Freedom, though outcast, trample Tophet itself under thy feet, while it consumes thee ? Let it come, then ; I will meet it and defy it...
Página 152 - With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last Harvest sowed the Seed: And the first Morning of Creation wrote What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
Página 47 - The Everlasting No had said : ' Behold, thou art fatherless, outcast, and the Universe is mine (the Devil's)'; to which my whole Me now made answer: '/ am not thine, but Free, and forever hate thee!