The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular PhilosophyLongmans, Green, and Company, 1896 - 332 páginas |
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The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy William James Visualização integral - 1923 |
The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy William James Visualização integral - 1899 |
The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy William James Visualização integral - 1903 |
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A. R. Wallace absolutely abstract actually Allen appears believe better casuistic chance character CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE conceived conception concrete consciousness course demands determinism deterministic divine Edmund Gurney emotional empiricist ence environment escape essays eternal ethical evidence evil existence experience fact faith feel genius give gnosticism Grant Allen Hegel hegelian human hypothesis ideal indeterminism individual infinite intellectual judgment kind living logical matter mean mediumship ment mental mind monism mood moral moral universe nature of things negation ness never notion object option outward over-beliefs passion pessimism phenomena philosopher physical point of view possible practical principle prove pure question rational reason reflex action relations religion religious scepticism scientific seems sense simply sort space subjectivism suppose theism theoretic theory thinker thou thought tion true truth ultimate unity universe Veddah whole word
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Página 124 - 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 134 - 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 48 - 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 203 - 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 36 - 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 189 - 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 187 - He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha ; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting.
Página 280 - Each of us is in reality an abiding psychical entity far more extensive than he knows, — an individuality which can never express itself completely through any corporeal manifestation. The Self manifests through the organism; but there is always some part of the Self unmanifested ; and always, as it seems, some power of organic expression in abeyance or reserve.
Página 64 - Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible; and as the test of belief is willingness to act, one may say that faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.
Página xiii - 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...