The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular PhilosophyLongmans, Green, and Company, 1921 - 332 páginas |
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absolutely abstract actually appears attitude Balfour Stewart believe better casuistic chance CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE cism conception concrete consciousness contradiction course demands determinism divine doctrine Edmund Gurney emotional empiricism empiricist environment escape essays essence eternal ethical evidence evil existence experience fact faith feel genius give gnosticism Grant Allen Gurney heart Hegel hegelian human hypothesis ideal identity infinite intellectual kind logical matter mean mediumship ment mental mind monism mood moral moral universe nature of things ness never notion object obligation option passion pessimism philosopher physical point of view positive possible practical principle prove pure question rational reflex action refuse relations religion religious scepticism scientific seems sense simply sort space speak spirit subjectivism suppose telepathy theism theoretic thinker thou thought tion true trust truth ultimate unity universe unseen whole words worth living
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Página xi - Our passional nature not only lawfully may, but must, decide an option between propositions, whenever it is a genuine option that cannot by its nature be decided on intellectual grounds ; for to say, under such circumstances, " Do not decide, but leave the question open...
Página 96 - 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 26 - 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 44 - 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 153 - 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 151 - He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha ; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting.
Página 109 - Past utterance and past belief, And past the blasphemy of grief, The mysteries of nature's heart,— And though no muse can these impart, Throb thine with nature's throbbing breast, And all is clear from east to west.
Página 56 - 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 27 - 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!
Página 3 - Science has organized this nervousness into a regular technique, her so-called method of verification; and she has fallen so deeply in love with the method that one may even say she has ceased to care for truth by itself at all. It is only truth as technically verified that interests her. The truth of truths might come in merely affirmative form, and she would decline to touch it. Such truth as that, she might repeat with Clifford, would be stolen in defiance of her duty to mankind. Human passions,...