Riddles of the Sphinx: A Study in the Philosophy of HumanismMacmillan, 1912 - 478 sayfa |
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Sayfa 211 - Doing this, and making the requisite addition, the formula finally stands thus :—Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Sayfa 27 - Besides that definite consciousness of which Logic formulates the laws, there is also an indefinite consciousness which cannot be formulated. Besides complete thoughts, and besides the thoughts which though incomplete admit of completion, there are thoughts which it is impossible to complete ; and yet which are still real, in the sense that they are normal affections of the intellect.
Sayfa 437 - And so a revulsion of feeling seizes upon the philosopher in the very hour 1 Ie, shows that a thought determination holds of reality. of his triumph: the prophet's mantle falls; the fiery chariot, that uplifted his ardent soul to the Empyrean, bears him back to earth; the divine enthusiasm that inspired his answer to the riddle of his being, has left him, and, as a child, he cries aloud to the spirit that has forsaken him,— " An infant crying in the night, An infant crying for the light, And with...
Sayfa 289 - Matter is an admirably calculated machinery for regulating, limiting, and restraining the consciousness which it encases. ... If the material encasement be coarse and simple, as in the lower organisms, it permits only a little intelligence to permeate through it ; if it is delicate and complex, it leaves more pores and exits, as it were, for the manifestations of consciousness. . . . On this analogy, then, we may say...
Sayfa 26 - ... and never can, fill the whole region of possible thought. At the uttermost reach of discovery there arises, and must ever arise, the question — What lies beyond ? As it is impossible to think of a limit to space so as to exclude the idea of space lying outside that limit ; so we cannot conceive of any explanation profound enough to exclude the question — What is the explanation of that explanation ? Regarding Science as a gradually increasing sphere, we may say that every addition to its...
Sayfa 369 - ... it required so much patient toil and effort to acquire. A good and wise man dies, and his goodness and his wisdom, his incalculable powers to shape the course of things for good, are wasted and destroyed. In the light of such a fact, we should have to put the worst construction alike upon the waste...
Sayfa 144 - All experience is relative to a self, all acts of knowledge are performed by selves, the whole of our cognitive machinery, principles, axioms, postulates and categories are invented by and modelled upon selves. The self is the meeting-place of all antitheses and ambitions, the battle-ground of all theories and impulses and their arbiter. It is a concrete fact." To such a contention it is of no value to urge that we are not told what the self is. Whatever it is, " there " it is. An inability adequately...
Sayfa 28 - An argument, the very construction of which assigns to a certain term a certain meaning, but which ends in showing that this term has no such meaning, is simply an elaborate suicide. Clearly, then, the very demonstration that a definite consciousness of the Absolute is impossible to us, unavoidably presupposes an indefinite consciousness of it.
Sayfa ix - Practically, therefore, a system of metaphysics, with whatever pretensions to pure thought and absolute rationality it may start, is always in the end one man's personal vision about the universe, and the "metaphysical craving...
Sayfa 31 - ... temporary forms of that which is permanent. The process of Evolution which has gradually modified and advanced men's conceptions of the Universe, will continue to modify and advance them during the future. The ideas of Cause and Origin, which have been slowly changing, will change still further. But no changes in them, even when pushed to the extreme, will expel them from consciousness; and hence there can never be an extinction of the correlative sentiments. No more in this than in other things,...