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60999 | How''d you catch up with me? |
60999 | I did, did n''t I? 26861 130--Ah where can Sympathy reflecting find One bright idea to console the mind? 26861 How loves, and tastes, and sympathies commence From evanescent notices of sense? 26861 O, Goddess, say, if brighter scenes improve Air- breathing tribes, and births of sexual love? |
26861 | One ray of light in this terrene abode To prove to Man the Goodness of his GOD?" |
26861 | Unde hominum pecudumque genus, vitæque volantum, Et quæ marmoreo fert monstra sub æquore pontus? |
26861 | exulting cries,''Where is thy sting? |
26861 | thy victories?'' |
43618 | ''What will you have?'' |
43618 | And can the slaughter of an innocent victim take away the sins of mankind? |
43618 | And yet how important some of the even trivial ones really are? |
43618 | Can a new wrong expiate old wrongs? |
43618 | How few of these vital conditions, from a physical standpoint, are under our control? |
43618 | We have looked at a few of the phases of human existence; what shall be said of the value of life? |
43618 | What love can a man possess who believes that the destruction of life will atone for evil deeds? |
43618 | What then is the meaning of this-- is humanity traveling in cycles? |
26321 | A materialist, if he were consistent, should laugh such a traveller to scorn, saying,"What guidance or purpose can there be in a material object? |
26321 | But here is just the puzzle: at what point does will or determination enter into the scheme? |
26321 | But is it to be asserted on the strength of that fact that the term"music"has no significance apart from its material manifestation? |
26321 | But is it to be supposed that the complex aggregate_ generated_ the life and mind, as the planet generated its atmosphere? |
26321 | But suppose it was successful; what then? |
26321 | CHAPTER VI MIND AND MATTER What, then, is the probable essence of truth in Professor Haeckel''s philosophy? |
26321 | Can it be said that they too had existed previously in some dormant condition in the ether of space? |
26321 | Can there not be in the universe a multitude of things which matter as we know it is incompetent to express? |
26321 | Do they arise by guidance or by chance? |
26321 | Does that show that the earth generated the life? |
26321 | Have the ideas of Sir Edward Elgar no reality apart from their record on paper and reproduction by an orchestra? |
26321 | How did they manage to spring into being? |
26321 | Is natural selection akin to the verified and practical processes of artificial selection? |
26321 | No\doubt some chemical process: combination or dissociation, something atomic, occurred; but what made it occur just then and in that way? |
26321 | Suppose we grant all this, what then? |
26321 | That they too were closed loops opened out, and their existence thus displayed, by the electric current? |
26321 | The argument represented by"He that formed the eye, shall he not see? |
26321 | We can put things together, and we can set things in motion,--statics and kinetics,--can we do more? |
26321 | Why, then, should it be inconceivable that human beings should receive information from beings in the universe higher than themselves? |
26321 | he that planted the ear, shall he not hear?" |
26321 | or is it wholly alien to them and influenced by chance alone? |
39928 | ARE THE STARS BENEFICIAL TO US? |
39928 | ARE THE STARS INFINITE IN NUMBER? |
39928 | ARE THE STARS INFINITE? |
39928 | ARE THEY BENEFICIAL TO US? |
39928 | ARE THEY USEFUL TO US? |
39928 | And for the development of such a being what is a universe such as ours? |
39928 | Are they really doing so, and will they ultimately form a single body? |
39928 | CHAPTER VII ARE THE STARS INFINITE IN NUMBER? |
39928 | CHAPTER XV THE STARS-- HAVE THEY PLANETARY SYSTEMS? |
39928 | Can this also be mere coincidence?'' |
39928 | Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? |
39928 | Dr. Roberts proposes several problems in relation to these bodies: Of what materials are spiral nebulæ composed? |
39928 | FOOTNOTES:[ 11] Professor F.J. Allen:_ What is Life?_[ 12] Art. |
39928 | It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? |
39928 | Must my day be dark by reason, O ye Heavens, of your boundless nights, Rush of Suns and roll of systems, And your fiery clash of meteorites? |
39928 | Science is in presence of the old, old mystery; the old, old questions are asked of her--"Canst thou by searching find out God? |
39928 | THE STARS: HAVE THEY PLANETS? |
39928 | WHAT IS A MILLION? |
39928 | What, then, shall we say on finding that there are thousands of nebulæ so placed? |
39928 | Whence comes the vortical motion which has produced their forms? |
39928 | deeper than hell; what canst thou know?" |
29904 | And do not the muscles which cause the legs to move perform their duty without man being conscious of it? |
29904 | And how does a weight find the centre of the earth with such directness? |
29904 | And if it has no fixed position like the earth in the centre of its elements, why does it not fall to the centre of our elements? |
29904 | And if it is true, why has it not remained among men who so greatly desired it, and led them to disregard any deity? |
29904 | And if the moon is lighter than the other elements, why is it opaque and not transparent? |
29904 | And if thou art not content with vegetables, canst thou not by a mixture of them make infinite compounds as Platina wrote, and other writers on food? |
29904 | And if you say that it is mechanical because it is done for money, who is more guilty of this error-- if error it can be called-- than you? |
29904 | And seest thou not that if the painter wishes to depict animals and devils in Hell with what richness of invention he proceeds? |
29904 | And whither will it tend? |
29904 | And why not along other lines? |
29904 | Are there not pictures to be seen so like reality that they deceive men and animals? |
29904 | Are these things to be done by men? |
29904 | Art thou so wise as thou believest to be? |
29904 | But if such pilgrimages continually exist, what is then their unnecessary cause? |
29904 | But the hand? |
29904 | But thou, writer of science, dost thou not copy with thy hand, and write what is in thy mind, as the painter does? |
29904 | But what need is there for me to indulge in long and elevated discourse? |
29904 | But why should I proceed further? |
29904 | But why should I tire myself with vain words? |
29904 | Do you perform any work without some pay? |
29904 | Hast thou not seen women of the mountains dressed in rough and poor clothes richer in beauty than those who are adorned? |
29904 | If it is driven, who is the driver? |
29904 | If it is summoned,--and I mean sought after,--who is the seeker? |
29904 | If you lecture in the schools, do you not go to whomsoever rewards you most? |
29904 | Now consider which is nearer to man, the name of man or the image of man? |
29904 | Now consider which is the greater loss, to be blind or dumb? |
29904 | Now could he not have closed his eyes when this frenzy came upon him, and have kept them closed until the frenzy consumed itself? |
29904 | Now does not nature produce enough vegetables for thee to satisfy thyself? |
29904 | Now seest thou not how many and diverse acts are performed by men? |
29904 | Now seest thou not that if thou wishest to go to nature, thou reachest her by the means of science, deduced by others from the effects of nature? |
29904 | Now seest thou not that the eye comprehends the beauty of the whole world? |
29904 | Now you can say, Does not one who talks loudly move his lips like one who talks softly? |
29904 | O sleeper, what is sleep? |
29904 | Seest thou not among human beauties that it is the beautiful faces which stop the passers- by, and not the richness of their ornaments? |
29904 | The moon having density and gravity, how does it stand? |
29904 | Therefore we ask, Is the virtue of herbs, stones and plants non- existent because men have been ignorant of it? |
29904 | What can I say? |
29904 | What is an element? |
29904 | What is force? |
29904 | What is force? |
29904 | What is that thing which is not defined and would{ 16} not exist if it were defined? |
29904 | What is thy opinion, O man, of thy own species? |
29904 | What peoples, what tongues, are they who can perfectly describe thy true working? |
29904 | What poet will place before thee in words, O{ 69} lover, the true semblance of thy idea with such truth as will the painter? |
29904 | What praise is there which can express thy nobility? |
29904 | What thing is there which acts not by reason of the eye? |
29904 | What thing is there which could not be effected by such an art? |
29904 | Who in naval warfare can be compared with him who commands the winds and generates storms which ruin and sink any fleet whatsoever? |
29904 | Who is he who remakes it if the producer is continually dying? |
29904 | Who is he who would not lose hearing, smell and touch rather than sight? |
29904 | Why did nature not ordain that one animal should not live by the death of the other? |
29904 | Why does not the weight remain in its place? |
29904 | Why does the eye perceive things more clearly in dreams than with the imagination when one is awake? |
29904 | [ Sidenote: Can Man imitate a Bird''s Flight?] |
29904 | [ Sidenote: Can the Spirit speak?] |
29904 | [ Sidenote: Has the Spirit a Body?] |
29904 | and do we not see that the pictures which represent the divine deity are kept covered up with inestimable veils? |
29904 | what would they do were they constrained to abide in this darkness during the whole of their life? |
29904 | would not this have been more profitable and less fatiguing to thee, since this can be done in the cool without motion and danger of illness? |
29904 | { 43} Can not beauty and utility be combined-- as appears in citadels and men? |
21668 | what are the motive- forces which drive us into this process which we call philosophizing? |
21668 | why philosophize at all? |
21668 | And what is the deepest and furthest reach of our individual soul? |
21668 | And what precisely is the attitude of love towards the physical body? |
21668 | Are not both the"companions of men"and men themselves denied by the very nature of things the realization of this idea? |
21668 | But are there any permanent laws of Beauty by which we may analyse the verdict of this objective vision? |
21668 | But is there not an inevitable frustration and negation of this desire and this will? |
21668 | But it may be asked--"Why can not the physical body serve this necessary purpose of giving personality a local and concrete identity?" |
21668 | But what has common- sense to do with art? |
21668 | But what of"malice"all this time? |
21668 | Can"truth,"can"beauty,"can"goodness"be conceived of as existing in the universe apart from any individual soul? |
21668 | Does he find himself flowing mysteriously forth, along some indescribable"durational"stream, and, as he flows, feeling himself to be that stream? |
21668 | Does it despise the physical body? |
21668 | Does its activity imply an ascetic or a puritanical attitude towards the body and the appetites of the body? |
21668 | Does this hypothesis reduce the tragedy of life to a negligible quantity, or afford a basis upon which any easy optimism could be reared? |
21668 | How should it be that when it is the projection, into the heart of the objective mystery, of the soul''s manifold and complicated essence? |
21668 | How should it be that, when it is one aspect of the outpouring of the very stuff of the soul itself? |
21668 | How should we not understand it, when it has been in so large a measure created by our sorrow and our desire? |
21668 | How then can any philosophy be regarded as a transcript and reflection of reality when at the very start it refuses to take cognizance of this fact? |
21668 | Is it therefore no more than a shred or shard or husk or remnant of inconceivably soulless matter? |
21668 | Is it, for instance, when we know all the conditions of its activity, entirely limited? |
21668 | Is the freedom of the will an illusion? |
21668 | Is the substratum of the soul a portion of it also? |
21668 | My answer to the question"Why do we philosophize?" |
21668 | Of every new aesthetic judgment the question is asked,"does it conflict with private property?" |
21668 | Of every new idea the question is asked,"does it conflict with private property?" |
21668 | Of every new moral valuation the question is asked,"does it conflict with private property?" |
21668 | Or are we made aware of it, in each individual case, by a pure intuitive apprehension? |
21668 | Surely, such an one might protest, it is in the physical body that these find their unity? |
21668 | The sensations of pain and pleasure-- who can deny the primordial and inescapable character of these? |
21668 | We say"the universe"; yet may it not be that there are as many"universes"as there are conscious personalities in this unfathomable world? |
21668 | What does this"love"of his actually imply? |
21668 | What is this mysterious medium? |
21668 | What then is this invisible standard of arbitration? |
21668 | Who can say? |
21668 | Why then do I drop completely, or at least considerably modify, this stress upon the soul''s"creative"power in my final chapter? |
21668 | Why then, when it comes to this particular axiom of irrational common- sense, does he balk and sheer off? |
21668 | _ how_ have we to philosophize if our philosophy is to be an adequate expression of our complete reaction to life? |
21668 | let us leave out the soul, then, and confront the original dilemma"? |
55761 | ( 2) When three persons are sitting at a table, how many distinct tables are there? |
55761 | ( 2) When three persons are sitting at a table, how many distinct tables are there? |
55761 | ( 2) Where are they united? |
55761 | ( 3) When two persons are alone together in a room, how many distinct persons are there? |
55761 | ( 3) When two persons are alone together in a room, how many distinct persons are there? |
55761 | And if not, with what other question must it necessarily be connected? |
55761 | And why are these feelings to be eliminated? |
55761 | Are the actions of men really all of one kind? |
55761 | But are we to trust to good luck, and experiment about until we hit by accident upon the right line? |
55761 | But how about the possibility of social life for men, if each aims only at asserting his own individuality? |
55761 | But how am I to know, prior to all knowledge, that the objects given to me are ideas? |
55761 | But how are we to make the actual calculation? |
55761 | But how else can this happen except we assign a content to the purely formal activity of the Ego? |
55761 | But is it justifiable to lump together actions of this kind with those in which a man is conscious not only of his actions but also of their causes? |
55761 | But is it not possible to make the old a measure for the new? |
55761 | But is this reflection capable of supporting any positive alternative? |
55761 | But what if this"thing- in- itself,"this whole transcendent ground of the world, should be nothing but a fiction? |
55761 | But what of the claim that this view is based on experience? |
55761 | But what of the freedom of an action about the motives of which we reflect? |
55761 | But what right have we to say that in the absence of sense- organs the whole process would not exist at all? |
55761 | But, is not precisely this actually the case with pure concepts and ideas? |
55761 | But, what if they are not valid at all? |
55761 | Can I say of it that it acts on my soul? |
55761 | Can we regard man as a whole in himself, in view of the fact that he grows out of a whole and fits as a member into a whole? |
55761 | Does freedom of will, then, mean being able to will without ground, without motive? |
55761 | Does not the world cause thoughts in the minds of men with the same necessity as it causes the blossoms on plants? |
55761 | Have I, then, any right at all to start from it in my arguments? |
55761 | Have they any intelligible meaning? |
55761 | Have we any right to consider the question of the freedom of the will by itself at all? |
55761 | He asks, How much can we learn about them indirectly, seeing that we can not observe them directly? |
55761 | He can not will what he wills? |
55761 | How comes it that the simple real manifests itself in a two- fold manner, if it is an indivisible unity? |
55761 | How do we come to differentiate ourselves from what is"objective,"and to contrast"Ego"and"Non- Ego?" |
55761 | How does Matter come to think of its own nature? |
55761 | How does the matter appear when we recognise the absoluteness of thought? |
55761 | How is it possible for my thought to be relevantly related to the object? |
55761 | How is it possible to start knowledge anywhere at all? |
55761 | How is it that we are compelled to make these continual corrections in our observations? |
55761 | How should I make of my thought an exception? |
55761 | How should Mind be aware of what goes on in Matter, seeing that the essential nature of Matter is quite alien to Mind? |
55761 | How should it matter to me whether I can do a thing or not, if I am forced by the motive to do it? |
55761 | How, in any case, is it possible for me to argue from my own subjective view of the world to that of another human being? |
55761 | How, then, do I know that he and I are in a common world? |
55761 | I can now ask myself: Over and above the percepts just mentioned, what else is there in the section of space in which they are? |
55761 | If human organisation has no part in the essential nature of thinking, what is its function within the whole nature of man? |
55761 | If the question be asked, What is man''s purpose in life? |
55761 | Is not every man compelled to measure the deliverances of his moral imagination by the standard of traditional moral principles? |
55761 | Is reason able also to strike the balance? |
55761 | Kant assumed their validity and only asks, What are the conditions of their validity? |
55761 | Metaphysical Realism must ask, What is it that gives us our percepts? |
55761 | Or how in these circumstances should Mind act upon Matter, so as to translate its intentions into actions? |
55761 | Our present question is, what do we gain by supplementing a process with a conceptual counterpart? |
55761 | Our questions are the following:( 1) Are things continuous or intermittent in their existence? |
55761 | Philosophers still ask such questions as, What is the purpose of the world? |
55761 | Seeing that, at the outset, we attach no predicates whatever to the Given, we are bound to ask: How is it that we are able to determine it at all? |
55761 | THE THEORY OF FREEDOM I CONSCIOUS HUMAN ACTION Is man free in action and thought, or is he bound by an iron necessity? |
55761 | The fundamental question of Kant''s Theory of Knowledge is, How are synthetic judgments a priori possible? |
55761 | This being so, is any individuality left at all? |
55761 | This last answer does, indeed, presuppose that it is legitimate to group together in the single question,''How many tables?'' |
55761 | This leads us to the question, What is the right method for striking the balance between the credit and the debit columns? |
55761 | Two questions arise:( 1) Where are the Given and the Concept differentiated? |
55761 | VII ARE THERE ANY LIMITS TO KNOWLEDGE? |
55761 | What does it mean to have knowledge of the motives of one''s actions? |
55761 | What does it signify for us to possess knowledge and science? |
55761 | What does willing mean if not to have grounds for doing, or striving to do, this rather than that? |
55761 | What else has he done except perceive what hundreds have failed to see? |
55761 | What follows from these facts? |
55761 | What follows from this fact? |
55761 | What follows? |
55761 | What is it that Kant has achieved? |
55761 | What is it that stimulates the subject? |
55761 | What is it that, in the first instance, I have before me when I confront another person? |
55761 | What is the function( and consequently the purpose) of man? |
55761 | What of the Spiritualistic theory? |
55761 | What precisely is it that is absolute in the affirmation of the Ego? |
55761 | What right have you to declare the world to be complete without thought? |
55761 | What then is a percept? |
55761 | When, next, the percept disappears from my field of vision, what remains? |
55761 | Where is the jumping- board which will launch us from the subjective into the trans- subjective? |
55761 | Which of us can say that he is really free in all his actions? |
55761 | Who does not know the pleasure which is caused by the hope of a remote but intensely desired enjoyment? |
55761 | Why do I not passively let the object impress itself on me? |
55761 | Why is it not simply satisfied with itself and content to accept its own existence? |
55761 | Why should this concept belong any less to the whole plant than leaf and blossom? |
55761 | Why, we ask, does the tree appear to us now at rest, then in motion? |
55761 | Yes, but what is it to do? |
55761 | [ 18] Are there any presuppositions in this question, as formulated by Kant? |
55761 | [ 45] Now let us ask ourselves, How do we come by such a view? |
55761 | [ 50] What does Fichte here mean by the activity of the"intelligence,"when we translate what he has obscurely felt into clear concepts? |
17862 | Ah, you wo n''t, sir,--won''t you? 17862 Am I rash? |
17862 | And did she leave no message for me, Nelly? |
17862 | And so you loved Will all the while? |
17862 | But-- my dear Madge-- has he asked this? |
17862 | Can I, dare I hope, that it is not spoken in vain? 17862 Do you mean to marry her?" |
17862 | Father, why do you cry so? |
17862 | How many times have you been in love, Isaac? |
17862 | Is he asleep, Doctor? |
17862 | No? |
17862 | Oh, Clarence, Clarence, could you for one moment believe this of me? |
17862 | What is this all to be about? |
17862 | You have it yet? |
17862 | You remember, Madge,( you have guarded this sole token of boyish intimacy,) our split sixpence? |
17862 | ----"And you have worn this, Maggie?" |
17862 | ----"Is her picture there, Maggie?" |
17862 | ----"Madge, Madge, must it be?" |
17862 | ----"Must it-- must it be, dear Madge?" |
17862 | ----"Nell!--are you there?" |
17862 | ----"Nelly?" |
17862 | ----"What is it, Nelly?" |
17862 | ----"What!--and you have told all this to Nelly-- that you love her?" |
17862 | ----"Why, papa?" |
17862 | ----And can it be? |
17862 | ----Exhausted, do you say, Aunt Tabithy? |
17862 | ----Is Laura Dalton such an one? |
17862 | ----Pride!--and what has love to do with pride? |
17862 | ----Your children? |
17862 | --Is Will talking of Nelly? |
17862 | A great many inquisitive people will, I do not doubt, be asking, after all this prelude, if my pictures are true pictures? |
17862 | Am I extravagant, in word, or in hope? |
17862 | And can suspicion, or a fear, lurk amid those tearful embraces? |
17862 | And can you tell her this; can you stab her fondness, now that you are away, with even a hint of what would crush her delicate nature? |
17862 | And now, what is gone,--or rather what is not gone? |
17862 | And was there nothing else?" |
17862 | And who knows but the Dreams of Age, when they are reached, will be lighted by the same spirit and freedom of nature that is around you now? |
17862 | And you love him, Maggie?" |
17862 | Are you indeed widowed with that most terrible of widowhoods? |
17862 | Are you not still the same sweet, guileless child of Heaven? |
17862 | Ay, is there not meaning in it? |
17862 | But is it so? |
17862 | But is not Autumn the Manhood of the year? |
17862 | Can God bless his creatures more than he has blessed that dear Madge and you? |
17862 | Can any lover explain me this? |
17862 | Can it be, you think, that there has been some cause of unkindness? |
17862 | Could it be that she approved what I had been saying? |
17862 | Dare you ask yourself such a question? |
17862 | Did Petrarch ever think if Laura would make a good wife; did Oswald ever think it of Corinne? |
17862 | Did it ever strike you, my reader, how much meaning lies in that little monosyllable-- gone? |
17862 | Do not proud flowers blossom,--the golden- rod, the orchis, the dahlia, and the bloody cardinal of the swamp- lands? |
17862 | Do you not know-- in spite of your worldliness-- that the man or the woman, who_ condescends_ to love, never loves in earnest? |
17862 | Does Nelly even distrust you? |
17862 | Does not fancy still love to cheat the heart, and weave gorgeous tissues to hang upon that horizon which lies along the years that are to come? |
17862 | Does the soul wither at that Rubicon which lies between the Gallic country of youth and the Rome of manliness? |
17862 | Has Dalton, with that calm, placid,_ nonchalant_ look of his, any inkling of the raptures which his elegant sister is exciting? |
17862 | Has Heaven even richer joys than live in that home of yours? |
17862 | Has Laura herself-- you dream-- any conception of that intensity of admiration with which you worship? |
17862 | Has any harm come near your home? |
17862 | Has the stout, elderly gentleman, who is so prodigal of his bouquets and attentions, any idea of the formidable rival that he has found? |
17862 | He watched with an amused interest the varying fortunes of the rival lovers, and often met me with--"Well, who is in favor to- day?" |
17862 | His character indeed is not altogether such as you could wish; but will it not be selfish to tell her even this? |
17862 | How is this? |
17862 | Is happiness so exhausted that no new forms of it lie in the mines of imagination, for busy hopes to drag up to day? |
17862 | Is it a lingering suspicion of your own childishness; or of that extreme of affection which reduces you to childishness? |
17862 | Is it absurd to suppose that some adaptation is desirable? |
17862 | Is it not belonging to greatness to catch lightning from the plains where lightning lives, and curb it for the handling of men? |
17862 | Is it not the ripest of the seasons? |
17862 | Is it the fear that a father may regard such matter as boyish? |
17862 | Is life then exhausted; is hope gone out; is fancy dead? |
17862 | Is not Heaven just as high, and the world as sadly broad? |
17862 | Is sorrow too selfish, or too holy? |
17862 | Is their vitality necessarily young? |
17862 | Is your boy like anything, except the wonderful fellow that he is? |
17862 | Nay, did even the more practical Waverley ever think it of the impassioned Flora? |
17862 | Only you will not leave me in my old age,--eh, Maggie?" |
17862 | She is pretty, they say; but what do you care for her prettiness? |
17862 | She takes pleasure in the society of Dalton,--what right have you to say her-- nay? |
17862 | There was a time when you thought all babies very much alike;--alike? |
17862 | V._ Boy Religion._ Is any weak soul frightened, that I should write of the Religion of the boy? |
17862 | What can have tempted him now? |
17862 | What can she be thinking? |
17862 | What mean those noisy declaimers who talk of the feeble influence, and of the crushed faculties, of a woman? |
17862 | What school of learning, or of moral endeavor, depends more on its teacher, than the home upon the mother? |
17862 | What shall it be, Maggie?" |
17862 | Where can her grace of character win a higher and a riper effect than upon the action of her household? |
17862 | Where then would live the motives to an upward looking of the eye and of the soul; where the beckonings that bid us ever onward? |
17862 | Where, indeed, can the modest and earnest virtue of a woman tell a stronger story of its worth than upon the dawning habit of a child? |
17862 | Who indeed could doubt it?--least of all you, who are living on her kindness day by day, as flowers live on light? |
17862 | Why happens it that a father is almost the last confidant that a son makes in any matter deeply affecting the feelings? |
17862 | Will it not be even worse, and show taint of a lurking suspicion, which you know would wound her grievously? |
17862 | Would it not weaken faith in their romantic passages, if you believed it? |
17862 | Would it then be a condescension to love Madge? |
17862 | Yet she is not there: whence comes the light that is to cheer you? |
17862 | You can not forget his sobs then;--if he were only alive one little instant to let you say,--"Charlie, will you forgive me?" |
17862 | You recall the old church- reckoning of your goodness: is there much more of it now than then? |
17862 | You wonder if it ever happened to you to begin to talk with an old friend of your father''s in just that abashed way? |
17862 | Your name and blood will live after you; nor do you once think( what father can?) |
17862 | [ Does a man indeed outgrow affections as his mind ripens? |
17862 | _ A Dream of Darkness._ Is our life a sun, that it should radiate light and heat forever? |
17862 | _ Pride of Manliness._ And has manhood no dreams? |
17862 | can this be so? |
17862 | said my Aunt Tabithy,"have you not done with dreaming?" |
17862 | says the smirking pedagogue, bringing down the stick with a quick, sharp cut,--"you do n''t like it, eh?" |
43719 | But what is this new reality,writes Professor Eucken( p. 135),"and this whole to which the course of the movement trends? |
43719 | ***** Why do we refuse to adopt this view, and to discontinue an endeavour the aims of which appear to be unattainable? |
43719 | And can this be otherwise when we only more widely diffuse the inherited possession, but are unable to increase it through our own activity? |
43719 | And have we a place for this assertion of help from a transcendent order when we acknowledge the reality of the independent spiritual life? |
43719 | And whence arises this longing in opposition to an entirely different world, if not from a spirituality implanted within our own being? |
43719 | Are men so full of spiritual impulse that it is only necessary to open up a course for it? |
43719 | But after the far- reaching changes of life and of conviction that we have experienced, can this confidence still be justified? |
43719 | But does not this dependence of the past upon the present deprive history of all independence and of all value? |
43719 | But how can a conception such as that of the_ content of life_ originate in mere nature? |
43719 | But how can this idea be established if a compelling reason is not active within man? |
43719 | But is the whole result of the movement of universal history really only a deception? |
43719 | But is this condition of the matter, spiritually discerned, more than a mere discipline? |
43719 | But to what extent is such a reality recognisable on the basis of experience? |
43719 | But what is humanity from the point of view of Naturalism other than a collection of beings of nature? |
43719 | But what is this new reality and this whole to which the course of the movement trends? |
43719 | But why do we insist upon the ethical; why does so much depend upon its continuance? |
43719 | But why is this so, and why do we renounce all claim to a life in accordance with our own nature? |
43719 | But, in this, independent life and bound life do not become combined; how could that be the case without the loss of all inner unity? |
43719 | Can anything that is aroused within our inner being, and with so much toil finds any form, arise in opposition to this immeasurable world? |
43719 | Can we deny that in the chief departments of the spiritual life the present already clearly shows tendencies to such a degradation? |
43719 | Could all of this spring out of mere error? |
43719 | Could one think of Goethe as living in the Middle Ages, or of Augustine as living in the age of the Enlightenment? |
43719 | Do such things as love, fidelity, honour deserve these names if the thought of selfish advantage is their motive power? |
43719 | Does it not destroy all inner unity of the ages? |
43719 | Does it not involve a contradiction for him to exert his power for something alien to himself? |
43719 | Does it not surrender life completely to the contingency of the changing moments? |
43719 | Does this not show, beyond possibility of refutation, that they do not fill the whole of life? |
43719 | For how could that influence the whole man which does not come from the whole man? |
43719 | For how would one conceive an activity that did not tend ultimately to the good of the agent, and so aid in his self- preservation? |
43719 | Further, is the spiritual life, ultimately, in every sense so powerless as it at first appears? |
43719 | Has it simply brought us back again, from the false paths that we have tried, without according us any kind of positive profit whatever? |
43719 | Have not all the principal revivals of religion, of morality, of education, been simplifications? |
43719 | How can Immanent Idealism satisfy us under such circumstances; how can it assure to our life a firm basis? |
43719 | How can life find a support in this? |
43719 | How can that which is primarily a part of a given world build up a new world? |
43719 | How can the individual matter be elucidated if the whole remain obscure? |
43719 | How could a task of such difficulty find fulfilment, and life a unification and elevation, in superficial and fleeting mood? |
43719 | How could the soul''s innermost experience permeate life as a whole, and ennoble its whole structure without the help of art? |
43719 | How could this unity and activity in the whole be possible, how could it even become an object of desire, if the whole itself did not strive? |
43719 | How does a delusion, that imposes so much toil and trouble upon us, win so much power over us? |
43719 | How is it then that we do not simply reject them? |
43719 | How then can that overcome all doubt which itself calls forth serious doubt? |
43719 | How then can that which takes place in him decide what shall be the destiny of the whole? |
43719 | If a self- conscious life were not present in man, how could a longing for an artistic moulding of life arise in him? |
43719 | If that were so, should we not be compelled to reject the whole of this as phantasy and deception? |
43719 | If the systems which have previously been formed no longer satisfy, why can not mankind evolve others? |
43719 | If the world were no more than this turmoil, if it did not in some way attain to self- consciousness, how could such a deliverance be brought about? |
43719 | Is it to be wondered at if the modern individual regards himself as the centre and undertakes to shape the whole of life from himself? |
43719 | Is the mere evolution and cultivation of sentiment able to give such power and greatness to an unrestrained passivity? |
43719 | May we deny the fact of such original phenomena, because they make our representation of the world less uniform and simple? |
43719 | Now, have we any knowledge of a movement that reaches back in this manner to the elements of life? |
43719 | Or did the idea of humanity, the abolition of slavery, and the commandment to love one''s enemies, for example, arise in some other way? |
43719 | Or is it proved that the existent forms exhaust all possibilities? |
43719 | Shall this chaos display itself and be extolled as an individuality? |
43719 | Should we not sink, in such a case, into a slavery which would enthral man far more oppressively than any command which a tyrant could be capable of? |
43719 | The problem is a vital one; in one form or another, at one time or another, everyone is faced with it: how shall I mould my life? |
43719 | This does indeed come to pass in a few cases; but can we say that it comes to pass generally or predominantly? |
43719 | We see movements of the masses in plenty, but where do we see great spiritual creations arise from the resulting chaos? |
43719 | What could drive him to that change but a desire for truth, and how is such a conception as_ truth_ attainable from nature? |
43719 | What gain, therefore, in respect of the chief matter could a return to the past bring? |
43719 | What is Individualism able to do against such forces, and what does it succeed in achieving towards life''s attainment of independence? |
43719 | What, then, is the real state of the matter? |
43719 | Whence all these, if spiritual life is only delusion? |
43719 | Why did each of the different systems become inadequate, unless it was that life itself rejected as too narrow the standard involved in them? |
43719 | Will any one seriously assert that we find ourselves to- day in a naïve position in relation to sense? |
43719 | Without the liberation which it brings, and its presentation of things in a harmony, how could a whole with definite character be raised? |
43719 | and"Why?" |
43719 | what is it that gives to them a constraining power over us? |
45122 | A_ mere_ man? |
45122 | And how can we love what is totally different from ourselves? |
45122 | And if a name was wanted for that intimate relation between God and man, what better name was there than Father and Son? |
45122 | And if so, why should that love ever cease? |
45122 | And shall we find them again such as they left us? |
45122 | And where can we study the science of thought, that most wonderful instance of development, except in the languages and literatures of the past? |
45122 | And why should it be so different when the door opens, and we step out of this dark life into the bright room? |
45122 | And yet who will say that true Christianity, Christianity which is known by its fruits, is less vigorous now than it has ever been before? |
45122 | Are they not human too? |
45122 | Are we not altogether at the mercy of God? |
45122 | But can we prevent the light of the sun and the noises of the street from waking the happy child from his heavenly dreams? |
45122 | But how can we speak of these things except in metaphors? |
45122 | But what did he mean by soul? |
45122 | But what is the reason of this? |
45122 | Can we imagine a more powerful revelation? |
45122 | Can we say that of God''s love? |
45122 | Can we wish for more than what we are, lookers- on-- resisting what tries to crush us, call it force, or evil, or anything else? |
45122 | Does the Self take possession of a body because it lives, or does the body live because the Self has taken possession of it? |
45122 | Has our prosperity taught us to meet adversity when it comes? |
45122 | Has the Self which for a time dwells in a living body anything to do with what we call the life of that body? |
45122 | How are we to do justice to our ancestors except by letting them plead their own case in their own language? |
45122 | How it is in that larger world, who can say? |
45122 | How much more in the real presence of a real and really beloved God, as felt by the true mystic, not merely as a phrase, but as a fact? |
45122 | How then can we rely on it as an accurate picture of the thoughts of Moses and his contemporaries? |
45122 | How, where, when? |
45122 | If God is called holy, again we have to say No, for what can our conception of holiness be compared with the holiness of God? |
45122 | If people talk of the miseries of life, are they not all man''s work? |
45122 | If so, does the body die because the Self leaves it, or does the Self leave the body because it dies? |
45122 | If there is continuity in the world everywhere, why should there be a wrench and annihilation only with us? |
45122 | Is any kind of religion possible without an unquestioning trust in truth? |
45122 | Is it not all one? |
45122 | Is it not the same with the Beautiful? |
45122 | Is it nothing to know that there is a solid rock on which all religion, call it natural or supernatural, is founded? |
45122 | Is not a real fact that happened, in a world in which nothing can happen against the will of God, better than any miracle? |
45122 | Is not that also God''s will? |
45122 | Is that better than Christ''s own simple human language, I go to my Father? |
45122 | Is that nothing? |
45122 | Is there any one who loves us more than God? |
45122 | Is there anything among the works of God, anything next to God, more wonderful, more awful, more holy than man? |
45122 | It is all God''s work, and where is there a flaw in that wonder of all wonders, God''s ever- working work? |
45122 | It is true our hopes are human, but what are the doubts and difficulties? |
45122 | Look at the miserable conceptions which man made to himself as long as he spoke of gods beside God? |
45122 | Much rather should we ask, Was then Jesus a mere God? |
45122 | Nay, is it not our duty to wake the child, when the time has come that he must be up and doing, and take his share in the toils of the day? |
45122 | Need we wonder, therefore, that just those who wish to transfer only their highest to the Godhead begin to shrink from speaking of a personal God? |
45122 | Or again, Are we to make ourselves gods? |
45122 | Shall we meet again as we left? |
45122 | Should we then attach our hearts to nothing, and pass quietly and unsympathetically through this world, as if we had nothing to do with it? |
45122 | Shut our eyes and be silent? |
45122 | Surely this was not so in the early centuries, nor again at the time of the Reformation? |
45122 | Then what can we do? |
45122 | To live means to be able to absorb, but who or what is able? |
45122 | Was not Christ, who died for us, more than we ourselves? |
45122 | We are in a dark prison here; let us believe that outside it there is no darkness, but light-- but what light, who knows? |
45122 | We believe what we desire-- true-- but why do we desire? |
45122 | We do not know_ how_ it will be so, but who has a right to say it_ can not_ be so? |
45122 | We love the fair appearance too, how could it be otherwise? |
45122 | We seem to love the fleeting forms of life, and yet how can we truly love what is so faithless? |
45122 | What can we do? |
45122 | What do we ourselves mean by soul? |
45122 | What does that mean? |
45122 | What does that mean? |
45122 | What ground have we, then, to doubt that it was even before that moment? |
45122 | What has life to do with the Self? |
45122 | What led to such expressions as''God is Love''but a feeling of reverence, which shrank from speaking of God as loving as we love? |
45122 | What should we be without it? |
45122 | What should we learn from these prophets who from distant countries and bygone ages all bear the same witness to the same truth? |
45122 | What would become of the world if all our prayers were granted? |
45122 | What, then, is that something which, added to the good, makes it beautiful? |
45122 | What, then, is the touchstone by which we assay the Beautiful? |
45122 | Whence all these limits? |
45122 | Whence comes melody? |
45122 | Where is the temple of God, or the true kingdom of God? |
45122 | Where is there a flaw or a fault? |
45122 | Wherever and whenever it was, we feel that we have made ourselves what we are; is not that a useful article of faith? |
45122 | Who would blame them or disturb them? |
45122 | Why do we so seldom face the great problem? |
45122 | Why not? |
45122 | Why not? |
45122 | Why should all be different? |
45122 | Why should we look for God and listen for His voice outside us only, and not within us? |
45122 | Why should we protest against a similar unknown quantity before the beginning of our life on earth? |
45122 | Why should we try to know more than we can know, if only we firmly believe that Christ''s immortal spirit ascended to the Father? |
45122 | Why was the past often so beautiful? |
45122 | Would it not be fearful to live for one day unless we knew, and saw, and felt His Presence and Wisdom and Love encompassing us on all sides? |
45122 | _ Chips._ Can not a concept exist without a word? |
45122 | _ Chips._ What author has ever said the last word he wanted to say, and who has not had to close his eyes before he could write_ Finis_ to his work? |
45122 | _ Gifford Lectures, II._ Can there be anything higher and better than truth? |
45122 | _ Gifford Lectures, II._ What can a study of Natural Religion teach us? |
45122 | _ Gifford Lectures, III._ We have toiled for many years and been troubled with many questionings, but what is the end of it all? |
45122 | _ Life._ Do we really lose those who are called before us? |
45122 | _ Life._ Does love pass away( with death)? |
45122 | _ Life._ What can we call ours if God did not vouchsafe it to us from day to day? |
45122 | _ Life._ What is more natural in life than death? |
45122 | _ Life._ Why do we love so deeply? |
45122 | _ Life._ Would that loving Father begin such a work in us as is now going on, and then destroy it, leave it unfinished? |
45122 | _ MS._ How is it that we know so little of life after death? |
45122 | _ MS._ If Jesus was not God, was He, they ask, a mere man? |
45122 | _ MS._ Is there such a thing as a Lost Love? |
45122 | _ MS._ THE BEAUTIFUL Is the Beautiful without us, or is it not rather within us? |
45122 | _ MS._ Then it is said, Is not Christ God? |
45122 | _ MS._ There is the old riddle always before me, why was... taken from me? |
45122 | _ MS._ What can we pray for? |
45122 | _ MS._ What is past, present, future? |
45122 | _ MS._ What is the tenure of all our happiness? |
45122 | _ MS._ What, then, is that which we call Death? |
45122 | _ MS._ Why is there so much suffering in this world? |
45122 | _ Science of Religion._ Do you still wonder at polytheism or at mythology? |
45122 | _ Science of Thought._ Every language has to be learnt, but who made the language that was to be learnt? |
45122 | _ Silesian Horseherd._ Why should the belief in the Son give everlasting life? |
45122 | any one who knows better what is for our real good than God? |
45122 | if the souls are without all this, without age, and sex, and national character, without even their native language, what will they be to us?'' |
45122 | or insist on defining the word''personal''so that it should exclude all that is incompatible with a perfect, unlimited, unchanging Being? |
45122 | perceive the whole universe, and turn it into his object? |
45122 | that we can hardly imagine anything without feeling that it is all human poetry? |
45122 | whence all those desires in us that can not be fulfilled? |
26163 | ***** Must we then give up fathoming the depths of life? |
26163 | ***** To what date is it agreed to ascribe the appearance of man on the earth? |
26163 | And this effect, could hardly be called a phenomenon of"adaptation": where is the adaptation, where is the pressure of external circumstances? |
26163 | And what was the principle discovered by Galileo? |
26163 | Are there not some objects privileged? |
26163 | Are we not free to direct our attention where we please and how we please? |
26163 | But can an organic structure be likened to an imprint? |
26163 | But contingent in relation to what? |
26163 | But do we ever think true duration? |
26163 | But does duration really play a part in it? |
26163 | But does it fabricate in order to fabricate or does it not pursue involuntarily, and even unconsciously, something entirely different? |
26163 | But how can we fail to see that intelligence is supposed when we admit objects and facts? |
26163 | But how do we fail to see that the symmetry is altogether external and the likeness superficial? |
26163 | But how does he fail to see that the real result of this so- called division of labor is to mix up everything and confuse everything? |
26163 | But in what direction can we go beyond them? |
26163 | But is it not plain that science itself invites philosophy to consider things in another way? |
26163 | But is it the mechanism of parts artificially isolated within the whole of the universe, or is it the mechanism of the real whole? |
26163 | But is it thus that matter presents itself? |
26163 | But may it not be the same in the case of every acquired peculiarity that has become hereditary? |
26163 | But of what? |
26163 | But what can remain of matter when you take away everything that determines it, that is to say, just energy and movement themselves? |
26163 | But what does the word"cause"mean here? |
26163 | But what shall we say of the little beetle, the Sitaris, whose story is so often quoted? |
26163 | But with what time has it to do? |
26163 | But, even if we accept this notion of the evolutionary process in the case of animals, how can we apply it to plants? |
26163 | But, in speaking of a progress toward vision, are we not coming back to the old notion of finality? |
26163 | But, in the adaptation of an organism to the circumstances it has to live in, where is the pre- existing form awaiting its matter? |
26163 | But, in time thus conceived, how could evolution, which is the very essence of life, ever take place? |
26163 | But, in what it affirms, does it give us the solution of the problem? |
26163 | Can the form, without matter, be an object of knowledge? |
26163 | Can we go further and say that life, like conscious activity, is invention, is unceasing creation? |
26163 | Created by life, in definite circumstances, to act on definite things, how can it embrace life, of which it is only an emanation or an aspect? |
26163 | Deposited by the evolutionary movement in the course of its way, how can it be applied to the evolutionary movement itself? |
26163 | Does science thus get any nearer to life? |
26163 | Does the state of a living body find its complete explanation in the state immediately before? |
26163 | Essentially practical, can it be of use, such as it is, for speculation? |
26163 | For what is reproduction, but the building up of a new organism with a detached fragment of the old? |
26163 | How can I suppress all this? |
26163 | How can we speak, then, of an incoherent diversity which an understanding organizes? |
26163 | How comes it, then, that affirmation and negation are so persistently put on the same level and endowed with an equal objectivity? |
26163 | How could mere chance work a recasting of the kind? |
26163 | How could the part be equivalent to the whole, the content to the container, a by- product of the vital operation to the operation itself? |
26163 | How could they be anything else? |
26163 | How does it go to work? |
26163 | How eliminate myself? |
26163 | How is this point to be determined? |
26163 | How must this solidarity between the organism and consciousness be understood? |
26163 | How otherwise could we understand that it passes through distinct and well- marked phases, that it changes its age-- in short, that it has a history? |
26163 | How then can the idea of Nought be opposed to that of All? |
26163 | How then could the plant, which is fixed in the earth and finds its food on the spot, have developed in the direction of conscious activity? |
26163 | How then has the plant stored up this energy? |
26163 | How, for instance, from childhood once posited as a_ thing_, shall we pass to adolescence, when, by the hypothesis, childhood only is given? |
26163 | How, in that case, can the variation be retained by natural selection? |
26163 | How, then, could this occur in the domain of life, where, as we shall show, the interaction of antagonistic tendencies is always implied? |
26163 | How, then, having posited immutability alone, shall we make change come forth from it? |
26163 | How, then, shall we choose between the two hypotheses? |
26163 | How, then, shall we expect it to develop an organ such as the eye? |
26163 | How, with what is made, can we reconstitute what is being made? |
26163 | In this privileged case, what is the precise meaning of the word"exist"? |
26163 | In vain, we shall be told, you claim to go beyond intelligence: how can you do that except by intelligence? |
26163 | In what drawer, ready to open, shall we put it? |
26163 | In what garment, already cut out, shall we clothe it? |
26163 | Is consciousness here, in relation to movement, the effect or the cause? |
26163 | Is it a complex movement? |
26163 | Is it a simple movement? |
26163 | Is it extension in general that we are considering_ in abstracto_? |
26163 | Is it impossible? |
26163 | Is it matter that is in question? |
26163 | Is it not obvious that to think here of the intelligent, or of the absolutely intelligible, is to go back to the Aristotelian theory of nature? |
26163 | Is it not plain that life goes to work here exactly like consciousness, exactly like memory? |
26163 | Is it not plain that this is to oppose the full to the full, and that the question,"Why does something exist?" |
26163 | Is it probable that mammals and insects notice the same aspects of nature, trace in it the same divisions, articulate the whole in the same way? |
26163 | Is it so with the laws of life? |
26163 | Is it the question of mind? |
26163 | Is it the same with the unconsciousness of instinct, in the extreme cases in which instinct is unconscious? |
26163 | Is it this, or that, or the other thing? |
26163 | Is it, finally, the question of the correspondence between mind and matter? |
26163 | Is my own person, at a given moment, one or manifold? |
26163 | Is our attention called to the internal change of one of these states? |
26163 | Is the existence of matter of this nature? |
26163 | Is there not a wonderful division of labor, a marvellous solidarity among the parts of an organism, perfect order in infinite complexity? |
26163 | Is this what I have really seen in turning over the leaves of the book? |
26163 | Is this, properly speaking, a"division of labor"? |
26163 | Let me come back again to the sugar in my glass of water:[106] why must I wait for it to melt? |
26163 | May one say that it has_ innate_ knowledge of each of these relations in particular? |
26163 | Must we not be struck by this feebleness of deduction as something very strange and even paradoxical? |
26163 | Now, does an unintelligent animal also possess tools or machines? |
26163 | Now, has it arisen so, as a matter of fact? |
26163 | Now, how can the forms be passing, and on what"stick"are they strung? |
26163 | Now, how did the astronomical problem present itself to Kepler? |
26163 | Now, in what does the progress of the nervous system itself consist? |
26163 | Now, was it necessary that there should be a series, or terms? |
26163 | Now, what do the laws of Kepler say? |
26163 | Now, whence comes the energy? |
26163 | Or, are we considering the concrete reality that fills this extension? |
26163 | Should the same be said of existence in general? |
26163 | Suppose an elastic stretched from A to B, could you divide its extension? |
26163 | Suppose these other forms of consciousness brought together and amalgamated with intellect: would not the result be a consciousness as wide as life? |
26163 | Then, what is it to think the object A non- existent? |
26163 | We should willingly accept the second formula; but by creation must we understand, as the author does, a_ synthesis_ of elements? |
26163 | What can it do, except objectify the distinction with more force, push it to its extreme consequences, reduce it into a system? |
26163 | What does it mean, to say that the state of an artificial system depends on what it was at the moment immediately before? |
26163 | What if we go beyond it in one of its directions? |
26163 | What is it that obliges me to wait, and to wait for a certain length of psychical duration which is forced upon me, over which I have no power? |
26163 | What is the essential object of science? |
26163 | What is the most general property of the material world? |
26163 | What is there at the base of this belief? |
26163 | What must the result be, if it leave biological and psychological facts to positive science alone, as it has left, and rightly left, physical facts? |
26163 | What, indeed, could the unification of physics be? |
26163 | What, then, do we find? |
26163 | What, then, if it be ignorant of all things, can it know? |
26163 | When I enter a room and pronounce it to be"in disorder,"what do I mean? |
26163 | When, how and why do they enter into this body which we see arise, quite naturally, from a mixed cell derived from the bodies of its two parents? |
26163 | Whence comes this determination? |
26163 | Whence does it come? |
26163 | Whence, then, the structural analogy? |
26163 | Where does the activity of instinct begin? |
26163 | Where, then, does the vital principle of the individual begin or end? |
26163 | Wherein consists the difference of attitude of the two sciences toward change? |
26163 | Wherein, then, is the difference between the two sciences? |
26163 | Who has made this explosive? |
26163 | Why not with an infinite velocity? |
26163 | Why should not the unique impetus have been impressed on a unique body, which might have gone on evolving? |
26163 | Why should these causes, entirely accidental, recur the same, and in the same order, at different points of space and time? |
26163 | Why should we speak of it? |
26163 | Why with this particular velocity rather than any other? |
26163 | Why, even, into terms entirely intelligible? |
26163 | Why, in other words, is not everything given at once, as on the film of the cinematograph? |
26163 | Why, then, should instinct be resolvable into intelligent elements? |
26163 | Will it not, therefore, be better to stick to the letter of transformism as almost all scientists profess it? |
26163 | Will they always escape us? |
26163 | Would not this twofold effort make us, as far as that is possible, re- live the absolute? |
26163 | Would the doctrine be affected in so far as it has a special interest or importance for us? |
26163 | [ 35] What more could the most confirmed finalist say, in order to mark out so exceptional a physico- chemistry? |
26163 | [ Footnote 74: See, in particular, among recent works, Bethe,"Dürfen wir den Ameisen und Bienen psychische Qualitäten zuschreiben?" |
26163 | and where does that of nature end? |
26163 | is consequently without meaning, a pseudo- problem raised about a pseudo- idea? |
17201 | ''How dieth the wise man? |
17201 | ''_ I should enquire after its shape_,''he says:--''_Has it legs or arms? |
17201 | ''_ If the materialist is confounded_,''he says,''_ and science rendered dumb_, who else is prepared with an answer? |
17201 | ''_ What shall we do to be saved?_''men are again crying. |
17201 | ''_ What then are the alternative pleasures that life offers_ me? |
17201 | Am I guilty, and must I seek repentance? |
17201 | And do not they check the latter by being thus bound up with it?_''But what really can be more misleading than this? |
17201 | And do not they check the latter by being thus bound up with it?_''But what really can be more misleading than this? |
17201 | And for what reason? |
17201 | And has not it so been followed? |
17201 | And have we still some right to that reverence that we have learnt to cherish for ourselves? |
17201 | And if so, to what extent does it? |
17201 | And is every hope that has hitherto nerved our lives, melting at last away from us, utterly and for ever? |
17201 | And what is the result on Romanism? |
17201 | And what, as a natural religion, is its working power in the world? |
17201 | And what, let us again ask, will this worth, be? |
17201 | And when it is got, what will it be like? |
17201 | And when shall that be? |
17201 | And will it, when we have found it, be found to merit all the praise that is bestowed upon it? |
17201 | And will the''_ gladness of true heroism_''visit him if he proclaims it to everyone in his club? |
17201 | And would not man''s history strike more clearly on us as the ghastly embodiment of a vast injustice? |
17201 | Are our positive moralists prepared to admit this? |
17201 | Are they the same or not the same, now the balls correspond to consciousness, as they were before, when the balls did not correspond to it? |
17201 | Are we moral and spiritual beings, or are we not? |
17201 | As we surveyed our race as a whole, would its brighter future ever do away with its past? |
17201 | Because one undoubted fact is a mystery, is every mystery an undoubted fact? |
17201 | But a denial of what? |
17201 | But are these altogether so destructive as they seem? |
17201 | But granting all this, what does this do for her? |
17201 | But here comes the point at issue-- What is this general good, and what is included by it? |
17201 | But how is he to do this? |
17201 | But if not material, what are they, acting on matter, and yet distinct from matter? |
17201 | But in what aspect of this does the real tragedy lie? |
17201 | But that first decision-- how shall we make it? |
17201 | But we might ask with exactly equal force, what is the good of true physical science, and why should we try to impress on the world its teachings? |
17201 | But what do the individuals want? |
17201 | But what do they mean by_ may be_? |
17201 | But what is communion? |
17201 | But what is it when approached from the other? |
17201 | But what proof can he discover of this sacredness? |
17201 | But when men choose vice instead of virtue, what is happening? |
17201 | But why? |
17201 | But why? |
17201 | But why? |
17201 | Can human life, cut off utterly from every hope beyond itself-- can human life supply it? |
17201 | Can we still resolve to say,''I believe, although it is impossible''? |
17201 | Do our exact thinkers in the least know what they are prophesying? |
17201 | Do the''_ perceptions_,''which are for him the only valid guides, tell him so? |
17201 | Do they mean that that''_ heathen_''and''_ gross_''conception of an immaterial soul is probably after all the true one? |
17201 | Does any positive method of experience or observation so much as tend to suggest it? |
17201 | Does it do more than present her to us as the toughest and most fortunate religion, out of many co- ordinate and competing ones? |
17201 | Does it tend in any way to set her on a different platform from the others? |
17201 | Does the general reverence with which life is at present regarded rest in any degree upon any similar misconception? |
17201 | Does this logically go any way whatever towards discrediting its claims? |
17201 | Does water think or feel when it runs into frost- ferns upon a window pane? |
17201 | Has Professor Huxley, for instance, ever enjoyed it himself, or does he ever hope to do so? |
17201 | Have the secrets of the prison- house really been revealed to Canon Farrar or Mr. Beresford Hope?... |
17201 | Have we been hitherto deceived in ourselves, or have we not? |
17201 | Have we indeed some aims that we may still call high and holy-- still some aims that are more than transitory? |
17201 | Having made it, does he feel any consolation in the knowledge that it is the entire truth? |
17201 | His main difficulty is nothing more than this: How can an infinite will that rules everywhere, find room for a finite will not in harmony with itself? |
17201 | How far is the treasure incorruptible; and how far will our increasing knowledge act as moth and rust to it? |
17201 | How shall he make it most joyful? |
17201 | How shall we love? |
17201 | How then has physical science in the same way failed to upset morality? |
17201 | How will he make love? |
17201 | How will he spend his days? |
17201 | How, then, can an intimacy with this eternal criminal be an ennobling or a sacred thing? |
17201 | I, however, reject neither, and thus stand in the presence of two Incomprehensibles, instead of one Incomprehensible._''Now what does all this mean? |
17201 | IS LIFE WORTH LIVING? |
17201 | If God would have all men do His will, why should He place the knowledge of it within reach of such a small minority of them? |
17201 | If not, what is the meaning of their prophecy? |
17201 | If so, when, where, and how? |
17201 | If you can, you must trust me all in all; for the very first thing I declare to you is, I have never lied.__ Can you trust me thus far? |
17201 | In the first place, then, what is art? |
17201 | Indeed, does he not himself say so? |
17201 | Is Life Worth Living? |
17201 | Is it Human Nature as opposed to Nature?--Man as distinct from, and holier than, any individual men? |
17201 | Is it Nature? |
17201 | Is it Truth, then-- pure Truth for its own sake? |
17201 | Is it in human nature to make this sacrifice? |
17201 | Is it known only in brief moments of Neoplatonic ecstasy, to which all the acts of life should be stepping stones? |
17201 | Is it simply because the fact in question is the truth? |
17201 | Is it simply the product of the brain''s movement; or is the brain''s movement in any degree produced by it? |
17201 | Is it something brief, rapturous, and intermittent, as the language often used about it might seem to suggest to one? |
17201 | Is that solemn value a fact or fancy? |
17201 | Is the will strong enough to hold on through this baffling and monstrous world, and not to shrink back and bid the vision vanish? |
17201 | Is the will to assert our own moral nature-- our own birthright in eternity, strong enough to bear us on? |
17201 | Is there anything very high or very sacred in that discovery? |
17201 | Is this machinery self- moving, or is it, at least, modulated, if not moved, by some force other than itself? |
17201 | Is this majestic conception a true one, or is it a dream only, with no abiding substance? |
17201 | Is truth to be sought only because it conduces to happiness, or is happiness only to be sought for when it is based on truth? |
17201 | It comes long before, How much shall we love? |
17201 | Let us suspend this judgment for a moment, and what will become of these two dramas? |
17201 | Let us then make it quite plain, at starting, that when we ask''Is life worth living?'' |
17201 | Mallock''s"Is Life Worth Living?" |
17201 | May my body be likened to the temple of the Holy Ghost defiled? |
17201 | Need the answer we are speaking of be definite and universal? |
17201 | Now is such a happiness a reality or is it a myth? |
17201 | Now tell me, I beseech you tell me, is mine really the desperate state I have been taught to think it is? |
17201 | Now what is a code of morals, and why has the world any need of one? |
17201 | Now what is the cause and what the conditions of this change? |
17201 | Now what is there in common between Dr. Tyndall and the starry heavens, or that''_ power_''of which the starry heavens are the embodiment? |
17201 | Now what is this treasure-- this inward state of the heart? |
17201 | Now what on positive principles is the groundwork of this teaching? |
17201 | Now what shall we say to this? |
17201 | Now why is this? |
17201 | Now why should this be? |
17201 | Now, in producing this estimate, what is the chief faculty in us that they appeal to? |
17201 | Or are we indeed what we have been taught to think we are? |
17201 | Or supposing Mr. Stephen does love them, why is that love''_ lofty_''? |
17201 | Or, if they are, why is that any condemnation of them? |
17201 | Or, if we do condemn them, what else are we to praise? |
17201 | Our question is, What is the true happiness? |
17201 | Should the intellect of the world return to theism, will it ever again acknowledge a special revelation? |
17201 | Supposing science not to be inconsistent with theism, may not theism be inconsistent with morality? |
17201 | That as to whether consciousness is wholly a material thing or no, they_ will_ give no answer 237 But why are they in this state of suspense? |
17201 | The end had ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest in the means? |
17201 | The first is, Why, when the air goes through them, are the organ- pipes resonant? |
17201 | The first question is,--How are these kindled, and what are they all about? |
17201 | The great question is, what shape finally will this dawning self- consciousness take? |
17201 | The only question for us is, is it curable or incurable? |
17201 | The question is what laws and what impetus are these? |
17201 | The question that I have to ask is, are they? |
17201 | The second is, What controls the mechanism by which the air is regulated-- a musician, or a revolving barrel? |
17201 | The second question is, What is it when connected? |
17201 | There are many practical rules for which it no doubt can do so; but will these rules correspond with what we mean by morals? |
17201 | They are asked, have we a soul, a will, and consequently any moral responsibility? |
17201 | This figure of human dreams has grown and grown in stature: does anything divine descend to it, and so much as touch its lips or its lifted hands? |
17201 | This first question is, Why should consciousness be connected with the brain at all? |
17201 | Was the discovery of the truth of his danger very glorious for the patient? |
17201 | What are we? |
17201 | What can obscure intellectual propositions,_''it is asked,''_ have to do with a religion of the heart? |
17201 | What do you offer me? |
17201 | What is its analysis, and why is it so precious? |
17201 | What is the use of bidding us? |
17201 | What is this free- will when it comes to use its tools? |
17201 | What must be done to get it, and what must be left undone? |
17201 | What shall I get? |
17201 | What shall it say, then, when assailed by the rational moralist? |
17201 | What shall we say of him, then, when he applies the argument in his own way? |
17201 | What sort of happiness shall I secure for others? |
17201 | What sort of morality do they find in it? |
17201 | What then has modern criticism accomplished on the Bible? |
17201 | What then will this change be? |
17201 | What then, let us ask the enthusiasts of humanity, will humanity be like in its ideally perfect state? |
17201 | What will he be like? |
17201 | What will he laugh at? |
17201 | What will he long for? |
17201 | What will he take pleasure in? |
17201 | What will it be like? |
17201 | What wonder then that they should have kept their condition to themselves? |
17201 | What, then, let us ask, is the nature of the belief? |
17201 | Where, then, is it? |
17201 | Who or what shall help us, or give us counsel? |
17201 | Why are they in this state of suspense? |
17201 | Why are they rank and steaming? |
17201 | Why should it be? |
17201 | Why should phenomena have two sides? |
17201 | Why should''_ harsh_''things be loveable? |
17201 | Why then should our positivists treat in this way the alleged immaterial part of consciousness? |
17201 | Why, let me ask him, should the truth be loved? |
17201 | Will it be worth having? |
17201 | Will it contain in it that negation of the supernatural which our positive assertions are at present supposed to necessitate? |
17201 | Will it fall to pieces before the breath of a larger knowledge? |
17201 | Will it incite men to virtues to which heaven could not incite them? |
17201 | Will not the dreams continue, when the reality has passed away? |
17201 | Would not the depth and the darkness of the shadow grow more portentous as the light grew brighter? |
17201 | _ In how many ways am_ I_ capable of feeling_ my_ existence a blessing? |
17201 | _ Low_ and_ lofty_--what has Mr. Stephen to do with words like these? |
17201 | _ Why so can I, or so can any man, But will they come when you do call for them?_ Henry IV. |
17201 | and I? |
17201 | and I? |
17201 | and I? |
17201 | and how joyful will it be when he has done his utmost for it? |
17201 | and in what way shall_ I_ feel the blessing of it most keenly_?'' |
17201 | and is not the positivist position, to a large extent at any rate, proved? |
17201 | and me? |
17201 | and me? |
17201 | and what is the reason that it pleases us? |
17201 | and what sort of happiness will others secure for me? |
17201 | and why should he so brusquely command all other men to share it? |
17201 | or am I not guilty, and may I go on just as I please?'' |
17201 | or can we look forward to its remaining undecided till the end of time? |
17201 | or do I owe it no more reverence than I owe the Alhambra Theatre? |
17201 | or lure them away from vices from which hell- fire would not scare them? |
17201 | or was its publication very sacred in the nurse? |
15877 | To those who ask, Where hast thou seen the gods, or how dost thou comprehend that they exist and so worshipest them? 15877 + How many things without studying nature dost thou imagine, and how many dost thou neglect? 15877 17):What then is that which is able to conduct a man? |
15877 | 17)? |
15877 | 18)? |
15877 | About what am I now employing my own soul? |
15877 | Accordingly, on every occasion a man should ask himself, Is this one of the unnecessary things? |
15877 | Alexander and Caius[A] and Pompeius, what are they in comparison with Diogenes and Heraclitus and Socrates? |
15877 | Am I doing anything? |
15877 | And I say not what is it to the dead, but what is it to the living? |
15877 | And all our assent is changeable; for where is the man who never changes? |
15877 | And art thou unwilling to do the work of a human being, and dost thou not make haste to do that which, is according to thy nature? |
15877 | And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? |
15877 | And canst thou take a bath unless the wood undergoes a change? |
15877 | And does a thing seem to thee to be a deviation from man''s nature, when it is not contrary to the will of man''s nature? |
15877 | And dost thou in all cases call that a man''s misfortune which is not a deviation from man''s nature? |
15877 | And even if he has done wrong, how do I know that he has not condemned himself? |
15877 | And how is it with respect to each of the stars-- are they not different and yet they work together to the same end? |
15877 | And how long does it subsist? |
15877 | And is not this too said that"this or that loves[ is wo nt] to be produced? |
15877 | And it is in thy power also; or say, who hinders thee? |
15877 | And until that time comes, what is sufficient? |
15877 | And what harm is done or what is there strange, if the man who has not been instructed does the acts of an uninstructed man? |
15877 | And what is it doing in the world? |
15877 | And what is it in any way to thee if these men of after time utter this or that sound, or have this or that opinion about thee? |
15877 | And what its causal nature[ or form]? |
15877 | And who has told thee that the gods do not aid us, even in the things which are in our power? |
15877 | And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way? |
15877 | And, to conclude the matter, what is even an eternal remembrance? |
15877 | Another prays thus: How shall I be released from this? |
15877 | Another thus: How shall I not lose my little son? |
15877 | Are not these robbers, if thou examinest their opinions? |
15877 | Are these things to be proud of? |
15877 | Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? |
15877 | Besides, what trouble is there at all in doing this? |
15877 | Besides, wherein hast thou been injured? |
15877 | But are the acts which concern society more vile in thy eyes and less worthy of thy labor? |
15877 | But can a certain order subsist in thee, and disorder in the All? |
15877 | But does she now dissolve the union? |
15877 | But if all things are wisely ordered, how is the world so full of what we call evil, physical and moral? |
15877 | But if anything in thy own disposition gives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? |
15877 | But in our own case how many other things are there for which there are many who wish to get rid of us? |
15877 | But is not this the very reason why pleasure deceives us? |
15877 | But suppose that those who will remember are even immortal, and that the remembrance will be immortal, what then is this to thee? |
15877 | But that which does not make a man worse, how can it make a man''s life worse? |
15877 | But thou, in what a brief space of time is thy existence? |
15877 | But thou, who art destined to end so soon, art thou wearied of enduring the bad, and this too when thou art one of them? |
15877 | Do not add, And why were such things made in the world? |
15877 | Do the things external which fall upon thee distract thee? |
15877 | Do thou pray thus: How shall I not desire to lie with her? |
15877 | Does Panthea or Fergamus now sit by the tomb of Verus? |
15877 | Does a man please himself who repents of nearly everything that he does? |
15877 | Does another do me wrong? |
15877 | Does any one do wrong? |
15877 | Does anything happen to me? |
15877 | Does pain or sensuous pleasure affect thee? |
15877 | Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendor until it is extinguished? |
15877 | Does the sun undertake to do the work of the rain, or Aesculapius the work of the Fruit- bearer[ the earth]? |
15877 | Dost thou not see then that for thyself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature? |
15877 | Dost thou think that a false opinion has less power than the bile in the jaundiced or the poison in him who is bitten by a mad dog? |
15877 | Dost thou wish to be praised by a man who curses himself thrice every hour? |
15877 | For a man can not lose either the past or the future: for what a man has not, how can any one take this from him? |
15877 | For if even the perception of doing wrong shall depart, what reason is there for living any longer? |
15877 | For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish? |
15877 | For what advantage would result to them from this or to the whole, which is the special object of their providence? |
15877 | For what is death? |
15877 | For what is more suitable? |
15877 | For what more dost thou want when thou hast done a man a service? |
15877 | For what more wilt thou see? |
15877 | For what must a man do who has such a character? |
15877 | For what purpose then art thou,--to enjoy pleasure? |
15877 | For who can change men''s opinions? |
15877 | For who is he that shall hinder thee from being good and simple? |
15877 | For with what art thou discontented? |
15877 | God exists then, but what do we know of his nature? |
15877 | Has any obstacle opposed thee in thy efforts towards an object? |
15877 | Has anything happened to thee? |
15877 | Hast thou determined to abide with vice, and hast not experience yet induced thee to fly from this pestilence? |
15877 | Hast thou reason? |
15877 | Hast thou seen those things? |
15877 | Have I done something for the general interest? |
15877 | How can our principles become dead, unless the impressions[ thoughts] which correspond to them are extinguished? |
15877 | How do we know if Telauges was not superior in character to Socrates? |
15877 | How does the ruling faculty make use of itself? |
15877 | How long then? |
15877 | How then is he not a fool who is puffed up with such things or plagued about them and makes himself miserable? |
15877 | How then shall I take away these opinions? |
15877 | How then shall a man do this? |
15877 | How then shalt thou possess a perpetual fountain[ and not a mere well]? |
15877 | How then, if being lame thou canst not mount up on the battlements alone, but with the help of another it is possible? |
15877 | How unsound and insincere is he who says, I have determined to deal with thee in a fair way!--What are thou doing, man? |
15877 | I have.--Why then dost not thou use it? |
15877 | If I can, why am I disturbed? |
15877 | If a thing is in thy own power, why dost thou do it? |
15877 | If any man should propose to thee the question, how the name Antoninus is written, wouldst thou with a straining of the voice utter each letter? |
15877 | If sailors abused the helmsman, or the sick the doctor, would they listen to anybody else? |
15877 | If then it is the former, why do I desire to tarry in a fortuitous combination of things and such a disorder? |
15877 | If then there happens to each thing both what is usual and natural, why shouldst thou complain? |
15877 | If then there is an invincible necessity, why dost thou resist? |
15877 | If, then, they have no power, why dost thou pray to them? |
15877 | In this flowing stream then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? |
15877 | In this infinity then what is the difference between him who lives three days and him who lives three generations? |
15877 | Is any man afraid of change? |
15877 | Is it not then strange that thy intelligent part only should be disobedient and discontented with its own place? |
15877 | Is it the form of the thing? |
15877 | Is my understanding sufficient for this or not? |
15877 | Is such a thing as an emerald made worse than it was, if it is not praised? |
15877 | Is this anything to fear? |
15877 | Is this[ change of place] sufficient reason why my soul should be unhappy and worse than it was, depressed, expanded, shrinking, affrighted? |
15877 | Man, thou hast been a citizen in this great state[ the world];[A] what difference does it make to thee whether for five years[ or three]? |
15877 | Now that which does not make a man worse, how can it make a man''s life worse? |
15877 | On every occasion I must ask myself this question, and inquire, What have I now in this part of me which they call the ruling principle? |
15877 | On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? |
15877 | One man prays thus: How shall I be able to lie with that woman? |
15877 | Or is it the matter? |
15877 | Or, in other words, by what power do forms appear in continuous succession? |
15877 | Pray thou: How shall I not desire to be released? |
15877 | Shall I repent of it? |
15877 | Shall any man hate me? |
15877 | Suppose then that thou hast given up this worthless thing called fame, what remains that is worth valuing? |
15877 | That some good things are said even by these writers, everybody knows: but the whole plan of such poetry and dramaturgy, to what end does it look? |
15877 | The next question is, How are things produced now? |
15877 | The poet says, Dear city of Cecrops; and wilt not thou say, Dear city of Zeus? |
15877 | Then let this thought be in thy mind, Where then are those men? |
15877 | This thing, what is it in itself, in its own constitution? |
15877 | Thou thus: How shall I not be afraid to lose him? |
15877 | To be received with clapping of hands? |
15877 | Unhappy am I because this has happened to me? |
15877 | Was it not in the order of destiny that these persons too should first become old women and old men and then die? |
15877 | Well, dost thou wish to have sensation, movement, growth, and then again to cease to grow, to use thy speech, to think? |
15877 | Well, suppose they did sit there, would the dead be conscious of it? |
15877 | Well, then, is it not better to use what is in thy power like a free man than to desire in a slavish and abject way what is not in thy power? |
15877 | What are these men''s leading principles, and about what kind of things are they busy, and for what kind of reasons do they love and honor? |
15877 | What dost thou wish-- to continue to exist? |
15877 | What good is it then for the ball to be thrown up, or harm for it to come down, or even to have fallen? |
15877 | What good will this anger do thee? |
15877 | What harm then is this to them; and what to those whose names are altogether unknown? |
15877 | What is badness? |
15877 | What is it, then, which does judge about them? |
15877 | What is its substance and material? |
15877 | What is my ruling faculty now to me? |
15877 | What is praise, except+ indeed so far as it has+ a certain utility? |
15877 | What is that which as to this material[ our life] can be done or said in the way most conformable to reason? |
15877 | What is the investigation into the truth in this matter? |
15877 | What is there new in this? |
15877 | What is there now in my mind,--is it fear, or suspicion, or desire, or anything of the kind( v. 11)? |
15877 | What is there of all these things which seems to thee worth desiring? |
15877 | What is thy art? |
15877 | What kind of people are those whom men wish to please, and for what objects, and by what kind of acts? |
15877 | What matter and opportunity[ for thy activity] art thou avoiding? |
15877 | What means all this? |
15877 | What more then have they gained than those who have died early? |
15877 | What need is there of suspicious fear, since it is in thy power to inquire what ought to be done? |
15877 | What principles? |
15877 | What remains, except to enjoy life by joining one good thing to another so as not to leave even the smallest intervals between? |
15877 | What soul then has skill and knowledge? |
15877 | What then art thou doing here, O imagination? |
15877 | What then can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just? |
15877 | What then dost thou think of him who[ avoids or] seeks the praise of those who applaud, of men who know not either where they are or who they are? |
15877 | What then if they grow angry, wilt thou be angry too? |
15877 | What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature? |
15877 | What then is that about which we ought to employ our serious pains? |
15877 | What then is that which is able to conduct a man? |
15877 | What then is worth being valued? |
15877 | What then will it be when it forms a judgment about anything aided by reason and deliberately? |
15877 | What then would those do after these were dead? |
15877 | What unsettles thee? |
15877 | Whatever man thou meetest with, immediately say to thyself: What opinions has this man about good and bad? |
15877 | When a man has presented the appearance of having done wrong[ say], How then do I know if this is a wrongful act? |
15877 | Where is it then? |
15877 | Where is it then? |
15877 | Where is the hardship then, if no tyrant nor yet an unjust judge sends thee away from the state, but nature, who brought thee into it? |
15877 | Which of these things is beautiful because it is praised, or spoiled by being blamed? |
15877 | Who then hinders thee from casting it away? |
15877 | Why art thou disturbed? |
15877 | Why do unskilled and ignorant souls disturb him who has skill and knowledge? |
15877 | Why dost thou wonder? |
15877 | Why then am I angry? |
15877 | Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world? |
15877 | Why then dost thou not wait in tranquillity for thy end, whether it is extinction or removal to another state? |
15877 | Why then dost thou too choose to act in the same way? |
15877 | Why then is that rather a misfortune than this a good fortune? |
15877 | Why then should a man cling to a longer stay here? |
15877 | Why, then, art thou disturbed? |
15877 | Why, what can take place without change? |
15877 | Wilt thou never enjoy an affectionate and contented disposition? |
15877 | Wilt thou not cease to value many other things too? |
15877 | Wilt thou not go on with composure and number every letter? |
15877 | With the badness of men? |
15877 | X. Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee? |
15877 | [ A] For of what other common political community will any one say that the whole human race are members? |
15877 | [ A] Is it not plain that the inferior exists for the sake of the superior? |
15877 | [ A] Why dost thou think that this is any trouble? |
15877 | [ B] Does Chaurias or Diotimus sit by the tomb of Hadrianus? |
15877 | and canst thou be nourished, unless the food undergoes a change? |
15877 | and for what purpose am I now using it? |
15877 | and if the dead were conscious, would they be pleased? |
15877 | and if they were pleased, would that make them immortal? |
15877 | and of what nature am I now making it? |
15877 | and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished[ before thy death]? |
15877 | and what good is it to the bubble while it holds together, or what harm when it is burst? |
15877 | and what wilt thou find which is sufficient reason for this? |
15877 | and whose soul have I now,--that of a child, or of a young man, or of a feeble woman, or of a tyrant, or of a domestic animal, or of a wild beast? |
15877 | and why am I disturbed, for the dispersion of my elements will happen whatever I do? |
15877 | and why do I care about anything else than how I shall at last become earth? |
15877 | and without a change of opinions what else is there than the slavery of men who groan while they pretend to obey? |
15877 | art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul? |
15877 | art thou not content that thou hast done something conformable to thy nature, and dost thou seek to be paid for it? |
15877 | but if it is in the power of another, whom dost thou blame,--the atoms[ chance] or the gods? |
15877 | for what advantage would result to them from this or to the whole, which is the special object of their providence? |
15877 | is it loosed and rent asunder from social life? |
15877 | is it melted into and mixed with the poor flesh so as to move together with it? |
15877 | is it void of understanding? |
15877 | nor yet desiring time wherein thou shalt have longer enjoyment, or place, or pleasant climate, or society of men with whom thou mayst live in harmony? |
15877 | or gold, ivory, purple, a lyre, a little knife, a flower, a shrub? |
15877 | or how could the helmsman secure the safety of those in the ship, or the doctor the health of those whom he attends? |
15877 | wouldst thou wish to please a man who does not please himself? |
55317 | Are you then to be a fool because they are? |
55317 | For what,you say,"can be more delightful than such things?" |
55317 | Should we, then, be among those who in a manner know not what they do? |
55317 | ''Can then such a one count death a thing of dread?'' |
55317 | Accustom yourself as much as possible, when any one takes any action, to consider only: To what end is he working? |
55317 | Accustom yourself so, and only so, to think, that, if any one were suddenly to ask you,"Of what are you thinking- now?" |
55317 | Alexander, Caesar, Pompey, what were they compared with Diogenes, Heraclitus, Socrates? |
55317 | All our assent is inconsistent, for where is the consistent man? |
55317 | Am I doing aught? |
55317 | Am I equipped for nothing but to lie among the bed- clothes and keep warm? |
55317 | And afterwards, what shall signify to you the clatter of their voices, or the opinions they shall entertain about you? |
55317 | And can you call anything a miscarriage of his nature which is not contrary to its purpose? |
55317 | And how else can this come than from sound general principles regarding Nature as a whole, and the constitution of man in particular? |
55317 | And how will the one secure safety to the crew, or the other health to the patients? |
55317 | And if the sense of moral evil be gone as well, why should a man wish to remain alive? |
55317 | And if there be no Gods, or if they have no regard to human affairs, why should I desire to live in a world void of Gods and without Providence? |
55317 | And if they were still mourning could their masters be sensible of it? |
55317 | And in what case will they shortly be? |
55317 | And then, in what are you injured? |
55317 | And till the fulness of the time be come what is to suffice you? |
55317 | And what is sweeter than wisdom itself, when you are conscious of security and felicity in your powers of apprehension and reason? |
55317 | And wherein here is the harm for them; or even for men whose names are not remembered? |
55317 | And wherein is it strange or evil that the man untaught acts after his kind? |
55317 | And who has told you that the Gods aid us not in these things also which are in our power? |
55317 | And why does it not suffice you to live out your short span in well ordered wise? |
55317 | And will you refuse the part in this design which is laid on man? |
55317 | And without change of opinion what is their state but a slavery, under which they groan, while they pretend to obey? |
55317 | And, if in their successive interchanges no harm befall the elements, why should one suspect any in the change and dissolution of the whole? |
55317 | Are any of these troubles new? |
55317 | Are there thorns in the way? |
55317 | Are they not different, yet all jointly working for the same end? |
55317 | Are you angry with one whose armpits smell or whose breath is foul? |
55317 | Are you cast forth from the natural unity? |
55317 | Are you distracted by the poor thing called fame? |
55317 | Are you grieved that you weigh only these few pounds, and not three hundred? |
55317 | As each presents itself ask yourself: Is there anything intolerable and insufferable in this? |
55317 | As soon as you awake ask yourself: Will it be of consequence to you if what is just and good be done by some other man? |
55317 | But how remove them? |
55317 | But now where are they? |
55317 | But to the living what is the profit in praise, except it be in some convenience that it brings? |
55317 | But what if there be naught beyond the atoms? |
55317 | But, in my own case, how many more reasons are there why a multitude would rejoice to be rid of me? |
55317 | Can any useful thing be done without changes? |
55317 | Can he be pleased with himself who repents of almost everything he does? |
55317 | Can it be said that you have ever acted towards all of them in the spirit of the line:-- He wrought no harshness, spoke no unkind word? |
55317 | Can one by scanting praise depreciate gold, ivory, or purple, a lyre or a dagger, a flower or a shrub? |
55317 | Can we set our pride on such matters? |
55317 | Can you be fed unless a change is wrought upon your food? |
55317 | Can you call that a misfortune for a man which is not a miscarriage of his nature? |
55317 | Can you desire to please one who is not pleased with himself? |
55317 | Can you heat your bath unless wood undergoes a change? |
55317 | Dismiss the vanity called fame, and what remains to be prized? |
55317 | Do not add,"Why were such things brought into the world?" |
55317 | Do pain and pleasure affect you? |
55317 | Do the ills of the body still have power to touch you? |
55317 | Do you ask a reward for it? |
55317 | Do you dread change? |
55317 | Do you not see, then, that this change also which is working in you is even such as these, and alike necessary to the nature of the Universe? |
55317 | Do you wish to be praised by a man who curses himself thrice within an hour? |
55317 | Does Panthea or Pergamus now sit mourning at the tomb of Verus, or Chabrias or Diotimus at the tomb of Hadrian? |
55317 | Does another wrong me? |
55317 | Does any man contemn me? |
55317 | Does any one hate me? |
55317 | Does anything hinder your designs? |
55317 | Does aught befall me? |
55317 | Does the emerald lose its virtue if one praise it not? |
55317 | Does the sun pretend to perform the work of the rain, or Aesculapius that of Ceres? |
55317 | For at what do you fret? |
55317 | For how can that make a man''s life worse which does not corrupt the man himself? |
55317 | For how small is the difference? |
55317 | For pleasure? |
55317 | For the rest, why should we hold this to be difficult? |
55317 | For what end are you formed? |
55317 | For what should we be zealous? |
55317 | For who can change the opinions of men? |
55317 | Grant that your memory were immortal, and those immortal who retain it; yet what is that to you? |
55317 | Has a man sinned? |
55317 | Has aught befallen you? |
55317 | Has error in the mind less power than a little bile in the jaundiced, or a little poison in him who is bitten? |
55317 | Have I done anything for the common good? |
55317 | Have you reason? |
55317 | Have you then chosen rather to abide in evil; or has experience not yet persuaded you to fly from amidst the plague? |
55317 | He was not indeed hard on any of us; but I always felt that he tacitly condemned us"? |
55317 | How can the great principles of life become dead if the impressions which correspond to them be not extinguished? |
55317 | How can you act that part? |
55317 | How cheap is all that is so eagerly pursued? |
55317 | How is it that unskilled and ignorant souls disturb the skilful and intelligent? |
55317 | How is it with your ruling part? |
55317 | How long shall it endure? |
55317 | How then shall you get this perpetual living fount within you? |
55317 | How, I answer, does the earth contain so many bodies buried during so long a time? |
55317 | I ask not, what is that to the dead? |
55317 | I can always form the proper opinion of this or that; and, if so, why am I disturbed? |
55317 | If even that be impossible, what purpose can your accusations serve? |
55317 | If it be in another''s, whom do you accuse? |
55317 | If it be the former, why should I wish to linger amid this aimless chaos and confusion, or have any further care than"how to become earth again"? |
55317 | If my house be smoky, I go out, and where is the great matter? |
55317 | If not, is there greater reason to sorrow if you live only so many years and no longer? |
55317 | If our souls survive us, how, you ask, has the air contained them from eternity? |
55317 | If the doing of this be in your own power, why do it thus? |
55317 | If the fault be not my sin, nor a consequence of it, if there be no damage to the common good, why am I perturbed about it? |
55317 | If the sailors revile their pilot, or the sick their physician, whom will they follow or obey? |
55317 | If there be an unalterable necessity, why strive against it? |
55317 | If they have no power, why do you pray? |
55317 | If you are grieved about anything in your own disposition, who can prevent you from correcting your principles of life? |
55317 | If, then, that alone can befall anything which is usual and natural, what cause is there for indignation? |
55317 | In the present matter what is the soundest that can be done or said? |
55317 | In this vast river, on whose bosom there is no tarrying, what is there among the things that sweep by us that is worth the prizing? |
55317 | Is it a child''s? |
55317 | Is it a youth''s, a timorous woman''s, or a tyrant''s; the soul of a tame beast or of a savage one? |
55317 | Is it fear? |
55317 | Is it glued to, and mingled with, the flesh so as to follow each fleshly motion? |
55317 | Is it loosened and rent from the great community? |
55317 | Is it not a common saying that,"so- and- so loves to happen?" |
55317 | Is it not cruel to restrain men from pursuing what appears to be their own advantage? |
55317 | Is it not enough for you that you have acted in this according to your nature? |
55317 | Is it not grievous that the intellectual part alone should be disobedient, and fret at its function? |
55317 | Is it of evil omen to say the corn is reaped?" |
55317 | Is it the cause? |
55317 | Is it the matter? |
55317 | Is it void of understanding? |
55317 | Is it your allotted part in the world''s destiny that chagrins you? |
55317 | Is my understanding sufficient for this business or not? |
55317 | Is not this itself my advantage? |
55317 | Is not this the very snare which Pleasure sets for us? |
55317 | Is pleasure, then, the object of your being, and not action, and the exercise of your powers? |
55317 | Is the gourd bitter? |
55317 | Is there anything to dread here? |
55317 | It is against nature for men to oppose each other; and what else is anger and aversion? |
55317 | It is difficult to imagine Gods wanting in forethought, and what could move them to do me wilful harm? |
55317 | It is useful also to have this reflection ready: What virtue has nature given to man wherewith to combat this fault? |
55317 | Lust? |
55317 | Nay, was it not manifest that the inferior kinds were formed for the superior, and the superior for each other? |
55317 | Nay, why am I disturbed at all? |
55317 | No man can lose either the past or the future, for how can a man be deprived of what he has not? |
55317 | Nowhere; or who can tell? |
55317 | Of each thing ask: What is this in itself and by its constitution? |
55317 | On every occasion, then, ask yourself the question, Is this thing not unnecessary? |
55317 | Or any such passion? |
55317 | Or if they were pleased with it, could the mourners live for ever? |
55317 | Or if they were sensible of it, would it give them any pleasure? |
55317 | Or is it to feel or to desire? |
55317 | Rational of what kind, virtuous or vicious? |
55317 | Shall I never repent of it? |
55317 | Shall you find anything that is worth all this? |
55317 | Should he then begin an angry dispute about it, would you also grow angry, and not rather mildly count over the several letters to him? |
55317 | Should some one ask you how the name Antoninus is written, would you not carefully pronounce to him each one of the letters? |
55317 | Suspicion? |
55317 | The Universe, then, must in a manner be a state, for of what other common polity can all mankind be said to be members? |
55317 | The atoms or the Gods? |
55317 | The cunning men who foretold the fates of others, or who swelled with pride-- where are they now? |
55317 | The gardener, the vine- dresser, the horse- breaker, the dog- trainer all try for this; and what else is the aim of all education and teaching? |
55317 | Then let this occur to you: Where, now, are these? |
55317 | Then stop and ask, Where are they all now? |
55317 | This from Plato:"''To the man who has true grandeur of mind, and who contemplates all time and all being, can human life appear a great matter? |
55317 | This is quite in your power; for who shall hinder you from being good and single- hearted? |
55317 | To be received with clapping of hands? |
55317 | To grow and to decay again? |
55317 | To have the souls of rational beings or of irrational? |
55317 | To live on? |
55317 | To speak or think? |
55317 | To those who ask,"Where have you seen the Gods, and how assured yourself of their existence, that you worship them?" |
55317 | To what end am I using my soul? |
55317 | Upon every action ask yourself, what is the effect of this for me? |
55317 | Was it not fate that they should grow old men and women, and then die? |
55317 | What advantage would thence accrue, either to themselves or to the Universe which is their special care? |
55317 | What am I making of it, and to what purpose am I now using it? |
55317 | What are they whose opinions and whose voices bestow renown? |
55317 | What are you doing, man? |
55317 | What can be pleasanter or more proper to universal nature? |
55317 | What can come without it? |
55317 | What do you desire? |
55317 | What do you desire? |
55317 | What do you here, Imagination? |
55317 | What else than a life spent in fearing and praising the Gods, and in the practice of benevolence, toleration and forbearance towards men? |
55317 | What excites you so? |
55317 | What has this to do with your soul remaining pure, prudent, temperate, and just? |
55317 | What if some one, standing by a clear sweet fountain, should reproach it? |
55317 | What is it then that pronounces upon them? |
55317 | What is it to die? |
55317 | What is its business in the Universe? |
55317 | What is its cause? |
55317 | What is its substance or matter? |
55317 | What is my soul to me? |
55317 | What is now my thought? |
55317 | What is the end of their striving; and on what accounts do they love and honour? |
55317 | What is the use? |
55317 | What is vice? |
55317 | What is your art? |
55317 | What manner of souls have these men? |
55317 | What more is there to see? |
55317 | What more should I desire if my present action is becoming to an intelligent and a social being, subject to the same law with Gods? |
55317 | What need for suspicion when it is open for you to consider what ought to be done? |
55317 | What of all this? |
55317 | What of the several stars? |
55317 | What principles? |
55317 | What remains but to enjoy life, adding one good to an another, so as not to lose the smallest interval? |
55317 | What shall it become when it grows old, or sickly, or decayed? |
55317 | What shall the wicked man do, having a wicked disposition? |
55317 | What sort of man then does he appear to you who pursues the applause or dreads the anger of those who know neither where nor what they are? |
55317 | What sort of men are they when they are eating, sleeping, procreating, easing nature, and the like? |
55317 | What then avails to guide us? |
55317 | What then should detain you here? |
55317 | What then will it be when, after due deliberation it has fixed its judgment according to reason? |
55317 | What then? |
55317 | What would you more, when you have done a man a kindness? |
55317 | What, I ask, is the skilful and intelligent soul? |
55317 | What, after all, was your aim? |
55317 | What, indeed, can fit you better? |
55317 | What, then, if you are lame, and can not scale the battlements alone, but can with another''s help? |
55317 | What, then, is it to be remembered for ever? |
55317 | What, then, is of value? |
55317 | What, then, is the key to this enquiry? |
55317 | What, then, would become of the illustrious dead when these faithful souls were gone? |
55317 | When it performs its proper office what more do you require? |
55317 | When shall the end be? |
55317 | When you are offended by the shamelessness of any man, straightway ask yourself: Can the world exist without shameless men? |
55317 | When you have the impression that a man has sinned, say to yourself:"How do I know that this is sin?" |
55317 | Whence do we conclude that Telauges had not a brighter genius than Socrates? |
55317 | Where are these keen wits, Charax, and Demetrius the Platonist, and Eudaemon, and their like? |
55317 | Where is the bubble''s good while it holds together, where is the evil when it is broken? |
55317 | Where is the wonder? |
55317 | Where, then, is it? |
55317 | Where, then, is it? |
55317 | Where, then, is the good for the ball in its rising; where the harm in dropping; where even is the harm when it has fallen down? |
55317 | Wherefore it is from this common state that we derive our intellectual power, our reason, and our law; or whence do we derive them? |
55317 | Wherein is the harm to the common good? |
55317 | Wherein is their gain greater than that of those who died before their time? |
55317 | Which of all these seems worthy to be desired? |
55317 | Who hinders you? |
55317 | Who then hinders you from casting it away? |
55317 | Whomsoever you meet, say straightway to yourself:--What are this man''s principles of good and evil? |
55317 | Why are you disturbed? |
55317 | Why should you act the like part? |
55317 | Why then are you disturbed? |
55317 | Why then do you fight and stand at variance? |
55317 | Why then do you not seek after such souls? |
55317 | Why then do you not use it? |
55317 | Why then should one strive for a longer sojourn here? |
55317 | Why then this concern? |
55317 | Why, then, am I angry? |
55317 | Why, then, should we dwell more on the misfortune of the incident than on the felicity of such strength of mind? |
55317 | Will you not pursue the course which accords with your own nature? |
55317 | Will you, then, cease valuing the multitude of other things? |
55317 | Wilt thou be satisfied with thy present state, and well pleased with every present circumstance? |
55317 | Wilt thou ever taste of the loving and satisfied temper? |
55317 | Wilt thou ever, O my soul, be good and single, and one, and naked, more open to view than the body which surrounds thee? |
55317 | Wilt thou never be able to live a fellow citizen with Gods and men, approving them and by them approved? |
55317 | You have learned its purpose, have you not? |
55317 | You have lived, O man, as a citizen of this great city; of what consequence to you whether for five years or for three? |
55317 | You mount the rostra and cry aloud,"O man, have you forgotten what is the real value of what you seek?" |
53261 | 101_ Paradox_ What is paradox? |
53261 | 10_ The Sex Novel_ How did the vogue of the sex novel arise? |
53261 | 129_ A New Valuation_ But why do ideals of Man decay-- why_ did_ the ideal of Man decay? |
53261 | 146_ A Criterion_ To find out whether a thing is decadent or no, let us henceforth put this question, Does it spring from creative Love? |
53261 | 147_ Love at the Renaissance_ How may a great creative age like the Renaissance be interpreted on the hypothesis of Love? |
53261 | 181_ Love and the Fall_ Has the fable of the Fall still another interpretation for us? |
53261 | 18_ The Modern Reader_ What is it that the modern reader demands from those who write for him? |
53261 | 202_ The Hidden Faculty_ When we speak hopefully of the discovery of still undiscovered faculties in Man, to what do we look forward? |
53261 | 205_ Nietzsche_ What was Nietzsche, that subtlest of modern riddles? |
53261 | 30_ Decadence Again_ How is the dissolution of the tradition of artistic discipline to be explained? |
53261 | 41_ Equality_ Is equality, in truth, a generous dogma? |
53261 | 47_ Beyond Original Sin_ How far is Man still from his goal? |
53261 | 62_ The Good Conscience_ What a revolution for mankind it would be to get back"the good conscience"? |
53261 | 66_ The"Restoration"of Christianity_ Will Christianity ever be established again? |
53261 | 94_ Domination of the Present_ To be modern in the accepted, intellectually fashionable sense: what is that? |
53261 | 9_ Wanted: A History of Hurry_ Is there a critic who wishes to be at once edifying and entertaining? |
53261 | A coterie of shop- keepers? |
53261 | A friend of his wondered, Is he going downhill because he is tired? |
53261 | A nightmare? |
53261 | A vision? |
53261 | And are decadents those who, if they had submitted to an artistic discipline of sincerity, would never have written at all? |
53261 | And are not the believers in the future, then, the creators of the future, and the true priests of progress? |
53261 | And has hurry now become finally triumphant so that our critics and even our artists and savants are nothing more than journalists? |
53261 | And himself, a Romantic? |
53261 | And his Redeemer would be, therefore-- whom? |
53261 | And his love of Love is then something pathetic, founded on"unselfishness"? |
53261 | And how can one who has not idealized be an artist? |
53261 | And how much Art, therefore, has lost? |
53261 | And how, then, is Man to be redeemed? |
53261 | And is"objectivity"the antidote? |
53261 | And morality was then the original sin? |
53261 | And not Original Sin, but Original Innocence is the true reading of the fable? |
53261 | And on the heels of his remedy does there tread the old disease over again? |
53261 | And should we not, therefore, feel grateful to them? |
53261 | And so on eternally? |
53261 | And stagnant values? |
53261 | And that misunderstanding is perhaps attributable to a lack of leisure? |
53261 | And that to modern hurry? |
53261 | And that to the industrial system? |
53261 | And that you are Realists-- does it not prove that you have not Love? |
53261 | And therefore in something antagonistic to Love? |
53261 | And through_ it_ Man lost his innocence? |
53261 | And what, indeed, is the problem? |
53261 | And what, then, is equality but the infinitely consoling consciousness of tainted creatures that every one on this earth is tainted? |
53261 | And would not that defeat the purpose? |
53261 | And, after all, does Man desire Happiness? |
53261 | And, therefore, one should praise humility, and practise it? |
53261 | And, therefore, whether religion is subjective, or objective? |
53261 | Are modern artists as bourgeois as this? |
53261 | Are not all sincere ideals involuntary auguries? |
53261 | Are these the bad thoughts of God? |
53261 | Are you not simply superfluous-- and vilely smelling at that? |
53261 | As a sort of Epicureanism, for instance? |
53261 | As for the current conception, is conflict an ingredient in it, or rest? |
53261 | But a man the muscles of whose body and mind are weak can not do_ anything;_ how can he be free? |
53261 | But creation and pain go hand in hand; for what is creation? |
53261 | But did Dostoieffsky do well to lay bare that world previously so reverently hidden, and to bring the reader behind the scenes of tragedy? |
53261 | But have things a meaning in themselves? |
53261 | But have you not sometimes tried to do that? |
53261 | But how renounce it? |
53261 | But if the devil is corruption, can not the devil be abolished? |
53261 | But is it possible by preaching to increase Love? |
53261 | But is not a thing incomplete without its interpretation? |
53261 | But is the question, indeed, worth the asking? |
53261 | But is there any other which grants modernity more than the status of an accident of time and fashion? |
53261 | But is this so? |
53261 | But the eternal question always returns again, Why does literature exist? |
53261 | But this state being created, the problem arose, How did Man fall from it? |
53261 | But what can one do? |
53261 | But what is Happiness? |
53261 | But, allowing for these, may there not be_ something_ due to the fact that people are no longer interested, as they used to be, in the future? |
53261 | But, as well, is not pride at times laughable and absurd? |
53261 | But, without the bait of the strange and the new to lure it on, must not humanity halt on its way? |
53261 | By a standard outside of literature, by their consonance with that which is the_ raison d''être_ of literature? |
53261 | Can a society in which rights are affixed to functions serve for that? |
53261 | Can it be willed into power? |
53261 | Can not Man renounce a metaphor? |
53261 | Conceived in darkness, born for destruction? |
53261 | Did Nietzsche, perhaps, create his Superman, and give him his hardness and lightness for no other purpose than to carry out that task? |
53261 | Did not Christ arise_ because_ He was foretold? |
53261 | Did not the old prophecies"come true"_ because_ they were prophesied? |
53261 | Do they mean a sort of synthesis or hotchpotch of the virtues in which they believe? |
53261 | Does X believe in a Christian and Y in a Nietzschean perfection? |
53261 | Does he desire Life to continue so that controversy might continue? |
53261 | Does it express, as every one assumes, the solidarity of men in their higher attributes? |
53261 | Does such a tradition of modernity exist? |
53261 | Even if it is Love that drives us on? |
53261 | For does not belief in absolute values necessarily imply belief in a Utopia? |
53261 | For how can mystery be retained when the very realm of mystery, the subconscious, is surveyed and mapped? |
53261 | For how can one who has not loved idealize? |
53261 | For how without them could she suffer to create, and endure the pain of Becoming? |
53261 | For if one become the servant and proclaim himself the least of all, how can he still fall? |
53261 | For what if goods be to society what happiness is said to be to men-- things to be attained only by striving for something else? |
53261 | For what was the confession underlying it? |
53261 | From fear of a decision? |
53261 | From what does it arise? |
53261 | From whence do they come? |
53261 | H. G. Wells_ How much has Mr. Wells''s scientific training had to do with his conception of Love? |
53261 | Had he lived in that pre- Christian world, would he have believed in the God in whom he now believes? |
53261 | Has he also possessed this truth? |
53261 | Has he in despair grown"artistic"simply because he is not an artist? |
53261 | Has literature decayed as hurry has intensified? |
53261 | Have standards of balance, repose and leisured grace gradually shrunk since, say, the Industrial Revolution? |
53261 | Have we here got to the foundation, or shall we find that underlying the Will to Power there is something more fundamental still? |
53261 | He himself lacks Love:--Can it be that he praises it for the same reason for which the Christian praises what he is not but would fain be? |
53261 | His heart then exults within him; but, why? |
53261 | How did Christianity find relief from this fundamental pessimism? |
53261 | How did this convention arise? |
53261 | How does it look, sound, move?" |
53261 | How else, if he had not deceived Man, could he have peopled the heavens with Man''s deities? |
53261 | How is it possible for an interesting man to have an uninteresting philosophy? |
53261 | How much of it, for instance, is simple prudence? |
53261 | How was Man to avoid now the almost inevitable bourne of Nihilism? |
53261 | How was the earth to recapture its love again, and drink back into itself its rapture and creativeness? |
53261 | How would the fable arise? |
53261 | How, else, could He have created the Universe? |
53261 | How, then, are they to be valued? |
53261 | III WHAT IS MODERN? |
53261 | If the individual can not by taking thought capture Happiness, is it conceivable that a community can, or the human race, in toto? |
53261 | If you would create an ideal Art, must you not, then, learn to love? |
53261 | In a society which has not surpassed the phase of slavery does every addition to man''s power over nature simply intensify the slavery? |
53261 | In bringing about Happiness? |
53261 | In plain terms, how do we expect this faculty to be of use to us? |
53261 | In them a far greater problem than any literary problem faces us, the problem, Why does literature exist? |
53261 | In what consists the passion of the moral fanatic? |
53261 | Into what hells?" |
53261 | Is Decadence the most subtle disguise of impotence? |
53261 | Is Happiness, then, the end of morality? |
53261 | Is Man, then, the mediocre animal par excellence? |
53261 | Is Original Sin, then, a theological dogma or a political device? |
53261 | Is decadence nothing more than the symptom of a self- conscious age? |
53261 | Is it an ideal of Life, or a thing impossible, self- contradictory, static, an eternal stick with which to chastise existence? |
53261 | Is it because Love is indifferent to Happiness that Happiness flutters around it, and caresses it with its wings? |
53261 | Is it because he is incapable of becoming anything else? |
53261 | Is it because the lovers have by a divine chance found their true path, have become a pulse in the very heart of Life? |
53261 | Is it because there is within the exceptional man greater compass, and, therefore, greater danger? |
53261 | Is it in order that people might still converse wittily, and the epigram might not die? |
53261 | Is it not Man that forever interprets and interprets? |
53261 | Is it not the future rather than the prophecy which"comes true"? |
53261 | Is it possible to know Life? |
53261 | Is it that the sentiment of the eternal was already beginning to weaken in Goethe and Ibsen? |
53261 | Is it, indeed, power that they desire in their striving, power for the sake of power? |
53261 | Is not its interpretation a part of it? |
53261 | Is not soothsaying implicit in every deliberate act? |
53261 | Is not this, indeed, its chief_ utility,_ that it saves men from the dangers which accompany pride? |
53261 | Is salvation, like sin, common to all men? |
53261 | Is the Will to suffering incarnate in it, or the will to alleviate suffering? |
53261 | Is the problem a moral one, and shall we say that a conquest of nature which is not preceded by a conquest of human nature is bound to be bad? |
53261 | Is there a"modern spirit"not dependent upon time and place, and in all ages modern? |
53261 | Is this simply the last paradox of a master of paradox? |
53261 | Is this what happened at the Renaissance? |
53261 | It is not sufficient that movements should be new-- if they are ever new; the question is, To what end are they? |
53261 | Its_ raison d''être_ is the Garden of Eden, not the Fall? |
53261 | Love, indeed, is known to him in all but its illusions; but who knows Love that knows not Love''s illusions? |
53261 | Must not things be_ foreseen_ before they can be accomplished? |
53261 | Neither of them copies existence in its external details: wherein do they differ? |
53261 | Or an effect of Love? |
53261 | Or does their strength not go just so far? |
53261 | Or from love of freedom? |
53261 | Or is he tired because he is going downhill? |
53261 | Or is it humility to boast of one''s high ancestry, and if the ancestry does not exist, to invent it? |
53261 | Or is it still, as it has always been, a crime to substitute one metaphor for another? |
53261 | Or is the problem intellectual? |
53261 | Or is your soul afraid to go as far as your will? |
53261 | Or not praise it and practise it? |
53261 | Or praise it and not practise it? |
53261 | Or to take another guess, granted we read Original Sin in the Fall, must we not read there, also, the way to get rid of it? |
53261 | Or will they look back upon Christianity as a creed too indulgent and not noble enough? |
53261 | Progress conceived as a discovery of the unknown instead of as a pursuit of Perfection-- might not that take us a long way? |
53261 | Shall it yet be found that the mainspring of the Renaissance was a newly discovered love of Life and, therefore, of Man? |
53261 | Should we then oppose the addition of one more divine power to the imprisoned? |
53261 | Should we who nurse a mission deplore the spirit in which these disinterested observers enter into their task? |
53261 | The Greeks would have demanded of realism, Why do you exist? |
53261 | The Superman is a goal, but what is the Superman''s goal? |
53261 | The history of humanity, that is, as distinct from the history of communities? |
53261 | The maddest of dreams? |
53261 | The morality might be judged by the criterion, Does it aid us in our quest? |
53261 | The profoundest of intuitions? |
53261 | The"bull"raised to a form of literary art? |
53261 | This notion may appear to us absurd, or merely ingenious, but will it appear so to future generations? |
53261 | This was the task of Nietzsche: in how far he succeeded how can we yet say? |
53261 | Through what perils? |
53261 | To live sparely and conserve strength? |
53261 | To make Life beautiful, then, would be to make it tragic? |
53261 | To make discipline more rigid? |
53261 | To observe vigilantly the signs of today-- and not only of today? |
53261 | To preserve and fortify the tradition of culture? |
53261 | To render more accessible the sources from which creative literature draws its life, so that the_ next_ generation may be better placed? |
53261 | To what cause is it to be traced? |
53261 | To what is due the decay of the art of soothsaying? |
53261 | To what is due this conspicuous absence of nobility in modern writers? |
53261 | To what was the change of attitude due? |
53261 | True, this hatred may not be of individuals but of things; but does that make it any more harmless? |
53261 | WHAT IS MODERN? |
53261 | Was it Love, who wished to shape a weapon for itself, the better to fashion things? |
53261 | Was it not fitting that he should aim his main indictment of Life against it, seeing that it is the trick whereby the blunder of Life is perpetuated? |
53261 | Was it not necessarily so? |
53261 | Was not this the necessary corollary of his æsthetic evaluation of Life? |
53261 | Was that pride the necessary condition of that productiveness? |
53261 | Was the Fall of Man the fall from Love? |
53261 | Was this the explanation of Nietzsche''s downfall? |
53261 | We ask, rather, Is our Love creative or barren? |
53261 | Well, are we to assent, then, to the old philosophic prejudice against style and refuse to believe any philosopher who does not write badly? |
53261 | Well, does not the moral become clearer and clearer? |
53261 | Well, how is it possible, if it_ is_ possible, to regain"the good conscience"? |
53261 | Well, in which of these forms, Tragedy or Comedy, may our hopes and visions of the Future best be expressed? |
53261 | Well, what does that prove, except that comedy as well as tragedy has been occasioned by it? |
53261 | Well, what is the remedy for this? |
53261 | Well, why not? |
53261 | Were they overburdened by their own age? |
53261 | What are we to think, then? |
53261 | What can be his reason for doing so? |
53261 | What course is left? |
53261 | What has been the history of humanity during the last two thousand years? |
53261 | What if the conflict between spirit and"life"is and must forever be an implacable and destructive one? |
53261 | What if, like the vampire, it_ can_ live only by drinking blood? |
53261 | What is it that makes the average man more sane and happy than the modern man? |
53261 | What is its meaning? |
53261 | What is the meaning of literature? |
53261 | What noble end is served by the reproduction of ordinary existence? |
53261 | What quality or combination of qualities is it which makes a writer a stylist? |
53261 | What satisfaction does it bring to those, by no means few in number, its"followers"? |
53261 | What was its meaning to the rulers of Israel? |
53261 | What, then, are the tasks of a writer in an unproductive age? |
53261 | What, then, does modern sensualism mean? |
53261 | When it has been written, and the new discipline has been hailed and submitted to by the artists, who can say if greatness may not again be possible? |
53261 | Where may not this resolution lead you? |
53261 | Where would philosophical opponents of Bolshevism be without Nietzsche? |
53261 | Whether God is within us, or outside us? |
53261 | Whither do they go? |
53261 | Who created it? |
53261 | Who would devise arguments for them, eloquence for them, phrases for them? |
53261 | Who, then, but them should extol him? |
53261 | Why should he wish Life to persist if he does not love Life? |
53261 | Will timidity, conformity, mediocrity, judicious blindness, unwillingness to offend, be synonymous, to them also, with morality? |
53261 | Would he, perchance, have said that to John the Baptist, the great modern of his time? |
53261 | Would the poets, the thinkers and the discoverers have attempted what they did attempt, had they been humble men? |
53261 | Would you deprive us of all the charming, serious, whimsical, and divinely frivolous works which are human- all- too- human? |
53261 | Would you erase from the book of literature all that is not idealization and myth, you neo- moderns? |
53261 | Yet what could harm it? |
53261 | Yet, for our better amusement, will not some one write his one and only novel, giving the true history of the novelist? |
53261 | Yet, in doing so, did they not rob æstheticism of its seductiveness? |
53261 | Yet, what ground had he to conclude that because the sensual intoxicates Man, therefore Man is more sensual than spiritual? |
53261 | You have been unsuccessful in trivial things? |
53261 | _ Can_ man act at all without believing in the future in some fashion? |
53261 | _ Why_ do all living things strive for power? |
53261 | are propaganda, reform, and even revolution, perchance, with many of them simply their escape from their problem? |
53261 | has Mr. Chesterton, then, postponed the solution of the problem? |
53261 | is Nietzsche, then, the great moralist, and are the Christians the great immoralists? |
38117 | And how did you get it? |
38117 | And how did your father get it? |
38117 | But how can you be sure of that? |
38117 | Do you happen to know whether the statement is a fact? |
38117 | Do you think you have stated the matter quite fairly? |
38117 | Well,said the other,"do you consider that a subject to be discussed?" |
38117 | Why are they called dynasties? |
38117 | Why not? |
38117 | You have never investigated the matter? |
38117 | A man has invested his savings in mining stock, and can I tell him what to do about it? |
38117 | A man is dying of cancer, and do I think it can be cured by a fast? |
38117 | A man is unable to make his wife happy, and can I tell him what is the matter with women? |
38117 | A man works in a sweatshop, and has only a little time for self- improvement, and will I tell him what books he ought to read? |
38117 | Again, is it stealing for a victim of our system of land monopoly to take a loaf of bread in order to save the life of his starving child? |
38117 | Again, is it stealing to hold land out of use for speculation, while other men are starving and dying for lack of land to labor upon? |
38117 | Also you have to ask, what are the reasons why your trouble manifests itself in this or that particular organ? |
38117 | Am I a creature of blind instincts, jealousies and greeds and hates beyond my own control entirely? |
38117 | Am I a poor, feeble insect, blown about in a storm and smashed? |
38117 | And can anybody doubt that Sally could have fooled a grieving mother, and made that mother think she was talking to the ghost of a long lost child? |
38117 | And can we really know about all these matters, or will we be only guessing? |
38117 | And how do they control it? |
38117 | And now we come with the new instrument of psychic research, to probe the question: What becomes of this consciousness when it disappears? |
38117 | And now, how does their behavior strike us? |
38117 | And now, what about the suppression of love? |
38117 | And suppose there is a scarcity of houses, and thousands of children are dying of tuberculosis in crowded tenement rooms? |
38117 | And what does it cost them? |
38117 | And what if some of these parts happen to be malformed or defective? |
38117 | And what is the practical consequence of this procedure? |
38117 | And what should one say to this honest physician? |
38117 | And what was the cause of these things? |
38117 | And what was the result? |
38117 | And who would decide between them and the great mass of men? |
38117 | And whose propaganda? |
38117 | And will anyone maintain that it is the part of an intelligent man to advocate a less intelligent course than he knows? |
38117 | And yet, when you meet a Communist, what is he? |
38117 | And, may it not very well be that our justice is up to us, in precisely the same way that some of these other things are up to us? |
38117 | Are acquired powers transmitted to posterity, or is the germ plasm unaffected by its environment? |
38117 | Are there any cases in which the time of the appearance can be proven to be subsequent to the time of death? |
38117 | Are there any measures you can take to increase the flow of blood to that organ, and to promote its activity? |
38117 | Are we its masters or its slaves? |
38117 | At once to every owner comes one single thought-- are you going to buy this stock, or are you going to confiscate it? |
38117 | At the top of society, or at the bottom? |
38117 | But about the activities of love we feel differently; and why is this? |
38117 | But are there any phantasms of the dead? |
38117 | But does she positively know that when she was a child, she never happened to be in the room with someone who was reading old English aloud? |
38117 | But how can I explain all this to the poor man? |
38117 | But now, suppose you multiply two feet by two feet by two feet by two feet, what does that represent? |
38117 | But some gust of passion seizes you, and you waste your substance, you wreck your life; then you wonder,"Who set that trap and baited it? |
38117 | But stop a moment, why do you close the door? |
38117 | But stop and consider, is not this a relic of old days? |
38117 | But we have to consider this question: Is the program of not having to pay anything a reality, or is it only a dream? |
38117 | But who are you that claim to know the last thing about a human soul? |
38117 | But, you say, if we die altogether when we finish this earthly life, what becomes of moral responsibility and the punishment of sins? |
38117 | CHAPTER LXVI CONFISCATION OR COMPENSATION( Shall the workers buy out the capitalists? |
38117 | CONFISCATION OR COMPENSATION 179 Shall the workers buy out the capitalists? |
38117 | Can anybody doubt that Sally could and would play the part of any person she had ever known, or of any historic character she had ever read about? |
38117 | Can anyone imagine how a thought can turn into a steam shovel, or a steam shovel into a thought? |
38117 | Can it be that God is in process of becoming, that there is no God until he has become, in us and through us? |
38117 | Can it ever become the sex arrangement of any society? |
38117 | Can they afford to do it, and what will be the price? |
38117 | Can they afford to do it, and what will be the price?) |
38117 | Can we by any possibility do this? |
38117 | Can we prove that it is still in existence, and is able by any method to communicate with us? |
38117 | Can we trust ourselves to think about them, or shall we be safer if we believe what we are told? |
38117 | Could there ever be such a thing? |
38117 | Do species change by the gradual elimination of the unfit, or do they change by sudden leaps, the"mutation"theory of de Vries? |
38117 | Do we praise their industry, and fidelity to their obligations? |
38117 | Do we want to buy them, in order to avoid the wastes of civil war and insurrection? |
38117 | Do we want to socialize our railroads, our coal mines, our telegraphs and telephones? |
38117 | Do you use that socially, or do you use it privately? |
38117 | Does the baby cry all the time? |
38117 | Has there ever been in the world any revelation, outside of or above human reason? |
38117 | Have we any grounds, other than those of psychic research, for thinking that it is true, or that it may be true, or that it ought to be true? |
38117 | He is saying now,"You believe that everything is to be determined by human reason? |
38117 | Here was a new form of state set up in society, a workers''state, and what attitude should the Anarchists take toward that? |
38117 | How are we going to do it? |
38117 | How came it that a mind so acute as Huxley''s went so far astray on the question of the evolution of morality? |
38117 | How can any thinking person deny that John has thus committed an act of treason to Mary? |
38117 | How can human beings act, how can they deal with one another, if there are no laws, no permanent moral codes?" |
38117 | How could any save a divinely revealed religion have foreseen the present movement to establish the Sabbath by law? |
38117 | How do you know it? |
38117 | How is it that the rich are becoming richer? |
38117 | How is their diet problem solved? |
38117 | How shall anybody say that nature has forever lost the power of rebuilding a bit of nervous tissue? |
38117 | How shall one judge whether the new rà © gime is better or worse? |
38117 | How shall we complete our mastery of it? |
38117 | How shall we determine what is to be the intellectual content of these material books? |
38117 | How shall we protect this precious instrument? |
38117 | How shall you do this, and at the same time get a continual supply of fresh air? |
38117 | How should we effect the change, and how should we run our industry after it was done? |
38117 | I am called in by these fat, over- fed rich people in their leisure class hotels, and what am I to say to them? |
38117 | I can hear the very tones of his voice as he put the great unanswerable question:"What are you going to do about the problem of jealousy?" |
38117 | I pause and consider: Where shall I begin? |
38117 | If the cause of our sex disorders is not physiological, what is it? |
38117 | If they grow differently, must they not sometimes lose the power to make each other happy in the marital bonds? |
38117 | In the first place, what is love-- young love, passionate love, the love of those who"fall in"? |
38117 | In what ways have the reasoned and deliberate purposes of man revised and even supplanted the processes of nature? |
38117 | Is it honest material? |
38117 | Is it not a fact that throughout nature a superfluity of any kind of energy or product may be a source of happiness, rather than of distress? |
38117 | Is it not obvious that the only possible solution of such problems lies in divorce? |
38117 | Is it stealing to seize upon land, and kill the occupants of it, and take the land for your own, and hand it down to your children forever? |
38117 | Is it threatened with convulsions or with blood poisoning? |
38117 | Is its digestion defective? |
38117 | Is pork a wholesome article of food or is it not? |
38117 | Is there any such natural and irremovable inferiority in human beings? |
38117 | Is there some weakness or defect there, and can the defect be remedied, or can your habits be changed so as to reduce the strain on that organ? |
38117 | It is a good deal like the old question, Which comes first, the hen or the egg? |
38117 | It is not perfect, from the point of view of you or me; but then, I ask, what else is there in the world that is perfect from that point of view? |
38117 | Just what is the process of the fast cure? |
38117 | Let us first consider the question, just what are the true and proper implications of monogamous love? |
38117 | Let us see how she made us; what were the stages on the way to man? |
38117 | Next, what about disease? |
38117 | Next, what are the effects of our new arrangements upon political corruption and graft? |
38117 | Next, what are the stages between Socialism and Syndicalism? |
38117 | Next, what is the status of crime? |
38117 | Of course, society wo n''t put it to you in that complicated formula; it will simply ask,"Have you got the price?" |
38117 | One of the first things people ask is,"Will there be money in the new society, or how will labor be rewarded and goods paid for?" |
38117 | Or do I make the storm, and can I in any part control it?" |
38117 | Or will you choose the universe of the atom, the infinity of the material world followed the other way, so to speak? |
38117 | Or will you choose the universe of the subconscious, our racial past locked up in the secret chambers of our mind? |
38117 | Or will you choose the universe of the superconscious, the infinity of genius manifested in the arts? |
38117 | Or would you answer,"Yes, of course, my boy; that is what I had in mind when I made you give up the girl you loved"? |
38117 | Said the stranger,"You own this land?" |
38117 | Shall we be punished if we think wrong, and how shall we be punished? |
38117 | Shall we be rewarded if we think right, and will the pay be worth the trouble? |
38117 | Shall we, therefore, join the pessimists and say that history is a blind struggle for useless power, and that the notion of progress is a delusion? |
38117 | Should one tell him to go and be a physician to the poor? |
38117 | Someone wrote me the other day, asking,"When is the best time to acquire knowledge?" |
38117 | Such is the problem of the mother of a son; and now, what about the mother of a daughter? |
38117 | Suppose I should ask you to name the influence that is having most to do with shaping the thoughts of young America-- what would you answer? |
38117 | Suppose that tomorrow you were to abolish all dividends and profits, and divide the money up among the wage workers, how much would each one get? |
38117 | Suppose we buy out the stockholders of United States Steel, and issue to them government bonds, what have we accomplished? |
38117 | That double money the bankers own; the only question now to be decided is, who is to own the double money that will be created tomorrow? |
38117 | The Brass Check A Study of American Journalism Who owns the press and why? |
38117 | The mind of the body is in rebellion against the mind-- shall we say of reason, or shall we say of society? |
38117 | The next thing that everybody wants to know is,"Shall we all be paid the same wages?" |
38117 | The only question is, which one will you choose? |
38117 | The religious people decide that sexual indulgence is wrong, and they impose a penalty-- and what is that penalty? |
38117 | Then come the associations of the bankers and merchants and real estate speculators, crying in outraged horror,"What? |
38117 | Then, second, we have to ask, Is there any other supposition which will explain the facts, and which is easier to believe than the spirit theory? |
38117 | There is an oldtime poem, which perhaps was in your school readers,"Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" |
38117 | These are Federal Reserve notes, and there are about three billions of them; how do they come to be? |
38117 | They have their sex impulses, and will follow them, and the only question is, shall they follow them wisely or unwisely? |
38117 | To what extent can civilized man rely upon his instincts to keep him in perfect health? |
38117 | Under these conditions the average man wishes to work, and the only question remaining is, how shall he work? |
38117 | We have a machine capable of producing many times more than we can consume; shall we still go on building that machine? |
38117 | What affair is it of any other person if I choose to get a divorce and marry a new wife once a month? |
38117 | What am I anyhow? |
38117 | What are my duties to myself, and what are my duties to the world about me? |
38117 | What are the consequences of these diseases? |
38117 | What are the forces which have so far prevented it from prevailing, and how can these forces be counteracted? |
38117 | What are the laws of the conduct of the mind? |
38117 | What are the probabilities of its being true? |
38117 | What are the scientific and rational reasons for monogamy? |
38117 | What are the standards by which we may know excellence in life, and distinguish it from failure and waste and blunder in life? |
38117 | What are we to say to these different programs? |
38117 | What avails it if we allow venereal disease to spread, so that a large percentage of the babies are deformed and miserable? |
38117 | What avails it if we send them to school hungry, as we do twenty- two per cent of the public school children of New York City? |
38117 | What causes the uric acid? |
38117 | What change would be necessary to the socializing of this concern? |
38117 | What could smack more of magic and fraud than crystal- gazing? |
38117 | What do I mean, what am I here for?" |
38117 | What do reason and moral sense have to tell us about diet? |
38117 | What does it mean, and what have we to do with it? |
38117 | What does it owe us, and what do we owe to it? |
38117 | What if you have an appendix that has been twisted and malformed from birth, and is a center of infection so long as it remains in the body? |
38117 | What if your eyes do not focus properly, and you are continually wearing out the optic nerve, thus giving yourself headaches and neurasthenia? |
38117 | What interest has society in the restriction of divorce? |
38117 | What is Matter? |
38117 | What is faith? |
38117 | What is it that we know about life? |
38117 | What is it that we want to prove? |
38117 | What is life, and how does it come to be? |
38117 | What is love, and what ought it to be? |
38117 | What is money? |
38117 | What is sport? |
38117 | What is the use of talking about health to a man who has no moral purpose? |
38117 | What is this"matter"that you are so sure of? |
38117 | What is to be done about this cancer? |
38117 | What is, in its essence, the process of evolution from the lower to the higher forms of mental life? |
38117 | What kind of a universe would that be? |
38117 | What kind of life are we going to make? |
38117 | What possible right have you to assert that you are immune against every enemy which can attack your blood- stream?" |
38117 | What precisely is this political revolution? |
38117 | What shall we say to the wicked man to make him be good, if we can not reward him with a heaven and frighten him with a hell? |
38117 | What was the literary quality of it? |
38117 | What was the moral quality of it? |
38117 | What would be the consequences of its not being true? |
38117 | What would be the effect upon mankind if the alleged revelation were to be universally adopted and applied? |
38117 | What would be the opinion of, let us say, a young turnip on the subject of Mr. Frederic Harrison''s thesis? |
38117 | What would be the process by which the people of London or Calcutta would decide upon that revelation? |
38117 | What would my pacifist friend do if he saw a maniac attacking his children with a hatchet? |
38117 | What would this authority be? |
38117 | What, for example, has been the effect upon vanity? |
38117 | What, in the most elemental form, is sex? |
38117 | What, precisely, is the difference between nature and man? |
38117 | What, so to speak, are the morals of the doctrine of immortality? |
38117 | Whatever that difference is, remember, it is paid by the workers; and might that sum not just as well have been used to buy out the owners? |
38117 | When I was in college the professor would propound the old question:"Would you rather be a happy pig or an unhappy philosopher?" |
38117 | When you read your daily paper, are you reading facts or propaganda? |
38117 | Where do I come from, and what is going to become of me? |
38117 | Who controls credit today? |
38117 | Who does not know the man who masters life and becomes a vital force, while his wife remains dull and empty? |
38117 | Who furnishes the raw material for your thoughts about life? |
38117 | Who has not told his dreams and laughed over them? |
38117 | Who has not waked up and been astounded at the variety and reality of a dream? |
38117 | Who is the owner? |
38117 | Who will read this Book of Life? |
38117 | Why could there not be a doctor who would look you over thoroughly, and tell you everything that was wrong with you, and how to set it right? |
38117 | Why do women wear tight shoes? |
38117 | Why else does he write his learned books in defense of the materialist philosophy? |
38117 | Why is it so hard, and do we have to stand its hardness? |
38117 | Why should he not do so? |
38117 | Why should our justice be any more perfect than, for example, our health or our thinking or our climate or our government? |
38117 | Why should we bother with"labor checks,"when we have a banking and clearing- house system, understood by everyone but the illiterate? |
38117 | Will anybody maintain that this can be done without stopping production in those factories for a single day? |
38117 | Will that convince the grocer? |
38117 | Will you choose the universe of outer space, the material world of infinity? |
38117 | With the city or the country? |
38117 | With the old or the young? |
38117 | Would he be any happier there? |
38117 | Would you abolish the competition of art, the effort of men to produce work more beautiful and inspiring than has ever been known before? |
38117 | Would you abolish the effort of scientists to overthrow theories which have hitherto been accepted? |
38117 | Would you abolish, for example, the competition of love, the right of a man to win the girl he wants? |
38117 | Would you think that was the most absurd thing you had ever heard in all your born days? |
38117 | Yesterday I met a young mother; and of what avail is all the pessimism of poets against the pride of a young mother? |
38117 | You ask, if God made Satan, and knew what Satan was going to do, is it not the same as if God did it himself? |
38117 | You meet a Capitalist, and what do you find? |
38117 | You own a dozen automobiles, and do you use them all privately? |
38117 | You propose to abolish the income tax and the inheritance tax, and put all the costs of government on the poor man''s lot?" |
38117 | You propose to let the rich man''s stocks and bonds go free? |
38117 | You propose to put no tax on his cash in the vaults and on his wife''s jewels? |
38117 | You reject all faith?" |
2680 | ''( 1) My turn now: And what of our little Gratia,(2) the sparrowkin? |
2680 | ''Whatsoever any man either doth or saith, thou must be good;''''doth any man offend? |
2680 | ''Why doth a little thing said or done against thee make thee sorry? |
2680 | ( 2)''What words can I find to fit my had luck, or how shall I upbraid as it deserves the hard constraint which is laid upon me? |
2680 | A pretty bold idea, is it not, and rash judgment, to pass censure on a man of such reputation? |
2680 | Add not presently speaking unto thyself, What serve these things for in the world? |
2680 | Again, how many truly good things have certainly by thee been discerned? |
2680 | Alexander, Caius, Pompeius; what are these to Diogenes, Heraclitus, and Socrates? |
2680 | Am I then yet unwilling to go about that, for which I myself was born and brought forth into this world? |
2680 | And again those other things that are so much prized and admired, as marble stones, what are they, but as it were the kernels of the earth? |
2680 | And as for the Gods, who hath told thee, that they may not help us up even in those things that they have put in our own power? |
2680 | And can death be terrible to him, to whom that only seems good, which in the ordinary course of nature is seasonable? |
2680 | And generally, is it not in thy power to instruct him better, that is in an error? |
2680 | And if the whole be not, why should I make it my private grievance? |
2680 | And is not that their age quite over, and ended? |
2680 | And mightest thou not be so too? |
2680 | And then among so many deities, could no divine power be found all this while, that could rectify the things of the world? |
2680 | And these once dead, what would become of these former? |
2680 | And they when they are changed, they murmur not; why shouldest thou? |
2680 | And those austere ones; those that foretold other men''s deaths; those that were so proud and stately, where are they now? |
2680 | And those things that have souls, are better than those that have none? |
2680 | And thou then, how long shalt thou endure? |
2680 | And was it then for this that thou wert born, that thou mightest enjoy pleasure? |
2680 | And what a matter of either grief or wonder is this, if he that is unlearned, do the deeds of one that is unlearned? |
2680 | And what do I care for more, if that for which I was born and brought forth into the world( to rule all my desires with reason and discretion) may be? |
2680 | And what is a ball the better, if the motion of it be upwards; or the worse if it be downwards; or if it chance to fall upon the ground? |
2680 | And what is it that hinders thee from casting of it away? |
2680 | And what is it then that shall always be remembered? |
2680 | And what is it, that is more pleasing and more familiar to the nature of the universe? |
2680 | And what is that but an empty sound, and a rebounding echo? |
2680 | And what more proper and natural, yea what more kind and pleasing, than that which is according to nature? |
2680 | And what should hinder, but that thou mayest do well with all these things? |
2680 | And when all is done, what is all this for, but for a mere bag of blood and corruption? |
2680 | And when shalt thou attain to the happiness of true simplicity, and unaffected gravity? |
2680 | And where are they now? |
2680 | And wherein can the public be hurt? |
2680 | And which is that that is so? |
2680 | And who can hinder thee, but that thou mayest perform what is fitting? |
2680 | And why should I trouble myself any more whilst I seek to please the Gods? |
2680 | And why then should I be angry? |
2680 | And wilt not thou do that, which belongs unto a man to do? |
2680 | And yet the whole earth itself, what is it but as one point, in regard of the whole world? |
2680 | Are not they themselves dead at the last? |
2680 | As for dissolution, if it be no grievous thing to the chest or trunk, to be joined together; why should it be more grievous to be put asunder? |
2680 | As for that which is truly good, what can it stand in need of more than either justice or truth; or more than either kindness and modesty? |
2680 | At the cause, or the matter? |
2680 | At thy first encounter with any one, say presently to thyself: This man, what are his opinions concerning that which is good or evil? |
2680 | Behold either by itself, is either of that weight and moment indeed? |
2680 | Brambles are in the way? |
2680 | But how should I remove it? |
2680 | But if it be, what do I know but that he himself hath already condemned himself for it? |
2680 | But is it so, that thou canst not but respect other things also? |
2680 | But still that time come, what will content thee? |
2680 | But suppose that both they that shall remember thee, and thy memory with them should be immortal, what is that to thee? |
2680 | But the care of thine honour and reputation will perchance distract thee? |
2680 | But what? |
2680 | But why have I said, offer my counsel? |
2680 | By one action judge of the rest: this bathing which usually takes up so much of our time, what is it? |
2680 | Can anything else almost( that is useful and profitable) be brought to pass without change? |
2680 | Can it be at the wickedness of men, when thou dost call to mind this conclusion, that all reasonable creatures are made one for another? |
2680 | Could he say of Athens, Thou lovely city of Cecrops; and shalt not thou say of the world, Thou lovely city of God? |
2680 | Do either pain or pleasure seize on thee? |
2680 | Dost thou desire to be commended of that man, who thrice in one hour perchance, doth himself curse himself? |
2680 | Dost thou desire to please him, who pleaseth not himself? |
2680 | Dost thou grieve that thou dost weigh but so many pounds, and not three hundred rather? |
2680 | Doth any man offend? |
2680 | Doth any new thing happen unto thee? |
2680 | Doth anything by way of cross or adversity happen unto me? |
2680 | Doth either the sun take upon him to do that which belongs to the rain? |
2680 | Doth gold, or ivory, or purple? |
2680 | Doth he bear all adverse chances with more equanimity: or with his neighbour''s offences with more meekness and gentleness than I? |
2680 | Doth it like either oxen, or sheep, graze or feed; that it also should be mortal, as well as the body? |
2680 | Doth it then also void excrements? |
2680 | Doth that then which hath happened unto thee, hinder thee from being just? |
2680 | Doth the emerald become worse in itself, or more vile if it be not commended? |
2680 | Doth then any of them forsake their former false opinions that I should think they profit? |
2680 | Feeling grieved as I do when one of your joints gives you pain, what do you think I feel, dear master, when you have pain of mind?'' |
2680 | For as for the body itself,( the subject of death) wouldest thou know the vileness of it? |
2680 | For as for the body, why should I make the grief of my body, to be the grief of my mind? |
2680 | For how should a man part with that which he hath not? |
2680 | For if thy reason do her part, what more canst thou require? |
2680 | For indeed what is all this pleading and public bawling for at the courts? |
2680 | For is it possible that in thee there should be any beauty at all, and that in the whole world there should be nothing but disorder and confusion? |
2680 | For that a God should be an imprudent God, is a thing hard even to conceive: and why should they resolve to do me hurt? |
2680 | For what can be more reasonable? |
2680 | For what hurt can it be unto thee whatsoever any man else doth, as long as thou mayest do that which is proper and suitable to thine own nature? |
2680 | For what if they did, would their masters be sensible of It? |
2680 | For what is it else to live again? |
2680 | For what is it that thou art offended at? |
2680 | For what shall he do that hath such an habit? |
2680 | For what wouldst thou have more? |
2680 | For which other commonweal is it, that all men can be said to be members of? |
2680 | For who is it that should hinder thee from being either truly simple or good? |
2680 | For whosoever sinneth, doth in that decline from his purposed end, and is certainly deceived, And again, what art thou the worse for his sin? |
2680 | From this common city it is, that understanding, reason, and law is derived unto us, for from whence else? |
2680 | Hast thou met with Some obstacle or other in thy purpose and intention? |
2680 | Hast thou reason? |
2680 | Hath anything happened unto thee? |
2680 | Hath death dwelt with them otherwise, though so many and so stately whilst they lived, than it doth use to deal with any one particular man? |
2680 | Hath not yet experience taught thee to fly from the plague? |
2680 | Have I done anything charitably? |
2680 | How couldst thou receive any nourishment from those things that thou hast eaten, if they should not be changed? |
2680 | How couldst thou thyself use thy ordinary hot baths, should not the wood that heateth them first be changed? |
2680 | How hast thou carried thyself hitherto towards the Gods? |
2680 | How is it with every one of the stars in particular? |
2680 | How is the earth( say I) ever from that time able to Contain the bodies of them that are buried? |
2680 | How know we whether Socrates were so eminent indeed, and of so extraordinary a disposition? |
2680 | How many of them who came into the world at the same time when I did, are already gone out of it? |
2680 | How many such as Chrysippus, how many such as Socrates, how many such as Epictetus, hath the age of the world long since swallowed up and devoured? |
2680 | How much less when by the help of reason she is able to judge of things with discretion? |
2680 | How then shall he do those things? |
2680 | How then stands the case? |
2680 | How? |
2680 | I will not say to thee after thou art dead; but even to thee living, what is thy praise? |
2680 | I write this in the utmost haste; for whenas I am sending you so kindly a letter from my Lord, what needs a longer letter of mine? |
2680 | If an absolute and unavoidable necessity, why doest thou resist? |
2680 | If it be, why then am I troubled? |
2680 | If it were not, whom dost tin accuse? |
2680 | If it were thine act and in thine own power, wouldest thou do it? |
2680 | If so be that the souls remain after death( say they that will not believe it); how is the air from all eternity able to contain them? |
2680 | If the first, why should I desire to continue any longer in this fortuit confusion and commixtion? |
2680 | If then neither applause, what is there remaining that should be dear unto thee? |
2680 | If therefore nothing can happen unto anything, which is not both usual and natural; why art thou displeased? |
2680 | If they can do nothing, why doest thou pray? |
2680 | In that which is so infinite, what difference can there be between that which liveth but three days, and that which liveth three ages? |
2680 | Is any man so foolish as to fear change, to which all things that once were not owe their being? |
2680 | Is he more bountiful? |
2680 | Is it now void of reason ir no? |
2680 | Is it one that was virtuous and wise indeed? |
2680 | Is it so with thee, that hitherto thou hast neither by word or deed wronged any of them? |
2680 | Is not this according to nature? |
2680 | Is the cucumber bitter? |
2680 | Is there anything that doth though never so common, as a knife, a flower, or a tree? |
2680 | Is this then a thing of that worth, that for it my soul should suffer, and become worse than it was? |
2680 | It is against himself that he doth offend: why should it trouble thee? |
2680 | It is against himself that he doth offend: why should it trouble thee?'' |
2680 | L. Will either passengers, or patients, find fault and complain, either the one if they be well carried, or the others if well cured? |
2680 | May not thy mind for all this continue pure, prudent, temperate, just? |
2680 | Most justly have these things happened unto thee: why dost not thou amend? |
2680 | Must thou be rewarded for it? |
2680 | My conversation was: What do you think my friend Fronto is doing just now? |
2680 | Nay they that have not so much as a name remaining, what are they the worse for it? |
2680 | Now for yourself, when you left that place, did you go to Aurelia or to Campania? |
2680 | Now if it be no wonder that a man should have such and such opinions, how can it be a wonder that he should do such and such things? |
2680 | Nowhere or anywhere? |
2680 | Of those whose reason is sound and perfect? |
2680 | Oh, but the play is not yet at an end, there are but three acts yet acted of it? |
2680 | Or can any man make any question of this, that whatsoever is naturally worse and inferior, is ordinarily subordinated to that which is better? |
2680 | Or is the world, to incessant woes and miseries, for ever condemned? |
2680 | Or was I made for this, to lay me down, and make much of myself in a warm bed? |
2680 | Or what doest thou suffer through any of these? |
2680 | Or wouldest thou rather say, that all things in the world have gone ill from the beginning for so many ages, and shall ever go ill? |
2680 | Sayest thou unto that rational part, Thou art dead; corruption hath taken hold on thee? |
2680 | Seest thou not how it hath sub- ordinated, and co- ordinated? |
2680 | Shall I do it? |
2680 | Shall I ever see you again?'' |
2680 | Shall I have no occasion to repent of it? |
2680 | She said: And what do you think of my friend Gratia? |
2680 | So for the bubble; if it continue, what it the better? |
2680 | Socrates said,''What will you have? |
2680 | The Greek means:"how know we whether Telauges were not nobler in character than Sophocles?" |
2680 | Then canst not thou truly be free? |
2680 | Then let this come to thy mind at the same time; and where now are they all? |
2680 | Then neither will such a one account death a grievous thing? |
2680 | This, what is it in itself, and by itself, according to its proper constitution? |
2680 | Thou must therefore blame nobody, but if it be in thy power, redress what is amiss; if it be not, to what end is it to complain? |
2680 | Thou thyself? |
2680 | To enjoy the operations of a sensitive soul; or of the appetitive faculty? |
2680 | To them that ask thee, Where hast thou seen the Gods, or how knowest thou certainly that there be Gods, that thou art so devout in their worship? |
2680 | Unto him that is a man, thou hast done a good turn: doth not that suffice thee? |
2680 | Upon every action that thou art about, put this question to thyself; How will this when it is done agree with me? |
2680 | Upon what then? |
2680 | V. Is my reason, and understanding sufficient for this, or no? |
2680 | Was it not in very truth for this, that thou mightest always be busy and in action? |
2680 | Was not it appointed unto them also( both men and women,) to become old in time, and then to die? |
2680 | Well, what did they? |
2680 | What are their minds and understandings; and what the things that they apply themselves unto: what do they love, and what do they hate for? |
2680 | What art thou, that better and divine part excepted, but as Epictetus said well, a wretched soul, appointed to carry a carcass up and down? |
2680 | What can he do? |
2680 | What can there be, that thou shouldest so much esteem? |
2680 | What do you think I had to eat? |
2680 | What doest thou desire? |
2680 | What doest thou so wonder at? |
2680 | What else doth the education of children, and all learned professions tend unto? |
2680 | What have I said? |
2680 | What have they got more, than they whose deaths have been untimely? |
2680 | What in these things is the speculation of truth? |
2680 | What is it for in this world, and how long will it abide? |
2680 | What is it that thou dost stay for? |
2680 | What is it that we must bestow our care and diligence upon? |
2680 | What is it then that doth keep thee here, if things sensible be so mutable and unsettled? |
2680 | What is it then that should be dear unto us? |
2680 | What is it then that will adhere and follow? |
2680 | What is now the object of my mind, is it fear, or suspicion, or lust, or any such thing? |
2680 | What is now the present estate of it, as I use it; and what is it, that I employ it about? |
2680 | What is rv&nfLovia, or happiness: but a7~o~& d~ wv, or, a good da~ rnon, or spirit? |
2680 | What is that that is slow, and yet quick? |
2680 | What is the form or efficient cause? |
2680 | What is the matter, or proper use? |
2680 | What is the present estate of my understanding? |
2680 | What is the substance of it? |
2680 | What is the use that now at this present I make of my soul? |
2680 | What is this, that now my fancy is set upon? |
2680 | What is thy profession? |
2680 | What is wickedness? |
2680 | What now is to be done, if thou mayest search and inquiry into that, what needs thou care for more? |
2680 | What then do ye so strive and contend between you?'' |
2680 | What then dost thou do here, O opinion? |
2680 | What then hast thou learned is the will of man''s nature? |
2680 | What then is it that may upon this present occasion according to best reason and discretion, either be said or done? |
2680 | What then is it, that passeth verdict on them? |
2680 | What then is it, that troubleth thee? |
2680 | What then must I do, that I may have within myself an overflowing fountain, and not a well? |
2680 | What then should any man desire to continue here any longer? |
2680 | What then were then made for? |
2680 | What then? |
2680 | What then? |
2680 | What then? |
2680 | What use is there of suspicion at all? |
2680 | What? |
2680 | What? |
2680 | What? |
2680 | Whatsoever it is that thou goest about, consider of it by thyself, and ask thyself, What? |
2680 | When at any time thou art offended with any one''s impudency, put presently this question to thyself:''What? |
2680 | When then will there be an end? |
2680 | Wherein then is it to be found? |
2680 | Wherein then, but in that part of thee, wherein the conceit, and apprehension of any misery can subsist? |
2680 | Whether just for so many years, or no, what is it unto thee? |
2680 | Which be those dogmata? |
2680 | Which of all these seems unto thee a worthy object of thy desire? |
2680 | Which of all those, either becomes good or fair, because commended; or dispraised suffers any damage? |
2680 | Who can choose but wonder at them? |
2680 | Whose soul do I now properly possess? |
2680 | Why do I want you? |
2680 | Why should any of these things that happen externally, so much distract thee? |
2680 | Why should imprudent unlearned souls trouble that which is both learned, and prudent? |
2680 | Why should it trouble thee? |
2680 | Why so? |
2680 | Why then labour ye not for such? |
2680 | Why then makest thou not use of it? |
2680 | Why then should that rather be an unhappiness, than this a happiness? |
2680 | Why then shouldest thou so earnestly either seek after these things, or fly from them, as though they should endure for ever? |
2680 | Why wonderest thou? |
2680 | Will any contemn me? |
2680 | Will any hate me? |
2680 | Will this querulousness, this murmuring, this complaining and dissembling never be at an end? |
2680 | Wilt not thou run to do that, which thy nature doth require? |
2680 | Wilt thou also be like one of them? |
2680 | Wilt thou therefore be a fool too? |
2680 | Wouldst thou long be able to talk, to think and reason with thyself? |
2680 | a child''s? |
2680 | a woman''s? |
2680 | and how it hath distributed unto everything according to its worth? |
2680 | and of those that have, those best that have rational souls? |
2680 | and our souls nothing but an exhalation of blood? |
2680 | and that it is against their wills that they offend? |
2680 | and that it is part of justice to bear with them? |
2680 | and that those things that are best, are made one for another? |
2680 | and the senses so obscure, and so fallible? |
2680 | and to be in credit among such, be but vanity? |
2680 | and what is the true nature of this universe, to which it is useful? |
2680 | and who is that? |
2680 | are either Panthea or Pergamus abiding to this day by their masters''tombs? |
2680 | as concerning pain, pleasure, and the causes of both; concerning honour, and dishonour, concerning life and death? |
2680 | as either basely dejected, or disordinately affected, or confounded within itself, or terrified? |
2680 | as whether meekness, fortitude, truth, faith, sincerity, contentation, or any of the rest? |
2680 | because I shall do this no more when I am dead, should therefore death seem grievous unto me? |
2680 | for what profit either unto them or the universe( which they specially take care for) could arise from it? |
2680 | for which of these sayest thou; that which is according to nature or against it, is of itself more kind and pleasing? |
2680 | gold and silver, what are they, but as the more gross faeces of the earth? |
2680 | how long can it last? |
2680 | how many pleasures, how many pains hast thou passed over with contempt? |
2680 | how many things eternally glorious hast thou despised? |
2680 | how much in regard of man, a citizen of the supreme city, of which all other cities in the world are as it were but houses and families? |
2680 | how much in regard of the universe may it be esteemed? |
2680 | is he more modest? |
2680 | may not this that now I go about, be of the number of unnecessary actions? |
2680 | merry, and yet grave? |
2680 | of what things doth it consist? |
2680 | or a tyrant''s? |
2680 | or a youth''s? |
2680 | or angry, and ill affected towards him, who by nature is so near unto me? |
2680 | or circumspect? |
2680 | or dost thou think that he pleaseth himself, who doth use to repent himself almost of everything that he doth? |
2680 | or either Chabrias or Diotimus by that of Adrianus? |
2680 | or free? |
2680 | or his son Aesculapius that, which unto the earth doth properly belong? |
2680 | or if glad, were these immortal? |
2680 | or if sensible, would they be glad of it? |
2680 | or magnanimous? |
2680 | or modest? |
2680 | or of those whose reason is vitiated and corrupted? |
2680 | or temperate? |
2680 | or true? |
2680 | or why should I take care for anything else, but that as soon as may be I may be earth again? |
2680 | or wise? |
2680 | or wouldst thou grow, and then decrease again? |
2680 | or, tell me, what doth hinder thee? |
2680 | or, why should thoughts of mistrust, and suspicion concerning that which is future, trouble thy mind at all? |
2680 | some brute, or some wild beast''s soul? |
2680 | than a covetous man his silver, and vainglorious man applause? |
2680 | the atoms, or the Gods? |
2680 | the souls of reasonable, or unreasonable creatures? |
2680 | thy domestics? |
2680 | thy foster- fathers? |
2680 | thy friends? |
2680 | thy servants? |
2680 | to disport and delight thyself? |
2680 | to hear a clattering noise? |
2680 | towards how many perverse unreasonable men hast thou carried thyself kindly, and discreetly? |
2680 | towards thy brethren? |
2680 | towards thy children? |
2680 | towards thy masters? |
2680 | towards thy parents? |
2680 | towards thy wife? |
2680 | what ado doest thou keep? |
2680 | what needs this profession of thine? |
2680 | when in the act of lust, and fornication? |
2680 | when sick and pained? |
2680 | which of all the virtues is the proper virtue for this present use? |
2680 | yea thou that art one of those sinners thyself? |
2680 | you will say if I am attackt, shall I not pay tit for tat? |
12264 | A man or a woman? |
12264 | Almost precipitous for Northamptonshire, eh? |
12264 | And how many people would read such a paper? |
12264 | And then, too, can we love any one who knows us perfectly, through and through? 12264 At the worst, this is a harmless literary blunder, a foolish bit of hero- worship?" |
12264 | But I do n''t say it,said I:"Who dies if Father Payne live?" |
12264 | But I go back to my point,said Lestrange:"does not a great war like that send people to their knees in faith?" |
12264 | But a conscious touch with God? |
12264 | But am I justified in not sharing that belief? |
12264 | But apart from definite moral disease,said Vincent,"is n''t it a good thing to compel people, if possible, into a certain sort of habit? |
12264 | But are n''t we a great deal better than our proverbs? |
12264 | But are n''t we, behind all that,said Barthrop,"an intensely sentimental nation?" |
12264 | But are n''t you making too much out of it? |
12264 | But are there no exceptions? |
12264 | But are you speaking of a nation which conquers or a nation which is defeated? |
12264 | But are you sure about this? |
12264 | But can people_ make_ themselves active and hopeful? |
12264 | But do you apply that to everything,I said,"old friendships, old affections, old memories? |
12264 | But do you mean that you should pursue good talk? |
12264 | But do you really think your poverty hurt you? |
12264 | But does it not mean that you have made a mistake somehow,said Vincent,"if you have made a friend, and then cease to care about him?" |
12264 | But does n''t all that encourage people to be prophets? |
12264 | But does n''t everyone want discipline of some kind? |
12264 | But does n''t heredity come in there? |
12264 | But does not a war,said Lestrange,"clear the air, and take people away from petty aims and trivial squabbles into a sterner and larger atmosphere?" |
12264 | But does not your principle about the right to risk one''s life hold good here too? |
12264 | But does that apply to things like horse- racing or golf? |
12264 | But everyone must do their work in their own way? |
12264 | But how are you going to begin to sort your material? |
12264 | But how do you fit that into your theories of life at all? |
12264 | But how does that work out in practice? |
12264 | But how is one ever to act at all,said Vincent,"if one is always to be feeling that a principle may turn out to be nonsense after all?" |
12264 | But how would you set about discovering which was which? |
12264 | But if I want to renounce it,I said,"why should n''t I?" |
12264 | But if a nation is defeated,said Father Payne,"are they the better for the common depression of_ not_ having been equal to the emergency?" |
12264 | But if all this is so,I said,"why do n''t we_ know_ that we shall live again? |
12264 | But if we are to go on living,I said,"are we to forget all the love and interest and delight of life? |
12264 | But if you are dealing with a real egotist,said Vincent,"what are you to do then?" |
12264 | But if you find yourself grubby, nasty, suspicious, irritable, is n''t it a good thing to rub it in sometimes? |
12264 | But if you have n''t got this sense of beauty,said Vincent,"how are you to get it?" |
12264 | But if you_ do n''t_ believe that,said Lestrange,"are you justified in entering upon intimate relations at all?" |
12264 | But in one sense it is n''t possible to be too good? |
12264 | But intercession,I said,"is there nothing in the idea that you can pray for those who can not or will not pray for themselves?" |
12264 | But is n''t all that rather intellectual? |
12264 | But is n''t it a way of changing yourself by simply trying to get your ideals clear? |
12264 | But is n''t it apt to be very tiresome,said I,"if the writer is always obtruding himself?" |
12264 | But is n''t it partly that people are unduly reticent about money? |
12264 | But is n''t it possible to be too obvious? |
12264 | But is n''t it rather a pity? |
12264 | But is n''t it right to show up mean and dishonest people, to turn the light of publicity upon cruel and detestable things? |
12264 | But is n''t it the finer kind of people,said Kaye,"who make the mistake?" |
12264 | But is n''t it worse still,said Vincent,"to see so many sides to a question that you ca n''t take a definite part?" |
12264 | But is n''t it worth while to see a great poet''s inferior jottings, and to grasp how he worked? |
12264 | But is n''t loyalty a fine quality? |
12264 | But is n''t that rather sentimental? |
12264 | But is n''t that what you call sentimental? |
12264 | But is n''t there a danger in all this? |
12264 | But is n''t there something,said Barthrop,"in Dr. Johnson''s dictum, that a meal was good enough to eat, but not good enough to ask a man to? |
12264 | But is n''t your whole idea of talk rather strenuous-- a little artificial? |
12264 | But may n''t you desire fame? |
12264 | But may the victim not have a faith in God through and in spite of a disease or a vice? |
12264 | But must there not be in every real friendship a_ purpose_ of continuance? |
12264 | But need that be a proof of progress? |
12264 | But one can practise oneself in doing without things? |
12264 | But ought n''t one to avoid all that sort of nonsense? |
12264 | But surely honour means something quite definite? |
12264 | But surely people pursue fame as much as ever? |
12264 | But surely we may pity people? |
12264 | But surely,said Rose,"there are some marriages which are obviously bad for all concerned-- real incompatibilities? |
12264 | But that was not all? |
12264 | But the charming Phyllis? |
12264 | But the charming people of whom you spoke,I said--"isn''t the whole thing often too evanescent to be recorded?" |
12264 | But there are some good biographies? |
12264 | But to go back to our sense of possession,I said,"is that really much more than a matter of climate? |
12264 | But what about St. Paul''s words,said Lestrange,"''Honour all men: love the brotherhood''?" |
12264 | But what about the religious side of it all? |
12264 | But what about the splendid self- sacrifice it all evokes? |
12264 | But what are the difficulties you spoke of? |
12264 | But what are you to do,said Vincent,"about people? |
12264 | But what can be done about it all? |
12264 | But what did it all come to? |
12264 | But what is an artist to do,I said,"who is simply haunted by the desire to make something beautiful?" |
12264 | But what is the word for the feeling which one has when one reads a really splendid book, let us say, or hears a perfect piece of music? |
12264 | But what is to be done when people are tied up by relationships, and ca n''t get away? |
12264 | But what is to tell us where to draw the line,said Vincent,"and when to disregard the precept?" |
12264 | But what should a man_ do_? |
12264 | But what would you do? |
12264 | But which is the best principle? |
12264 | But who are these people, after all? |
12264 | But who is to judge if it_ is_ immaterial? |
12264 | But why do you write it, if you are so dissatisfied with it? |
12264 | But why does n''t it improve? |
12264 | But why should n''t it be done? |
12264 | But why''of course''? |
12264 | But why, if that is so,said I,"do we feel a sense of unity with some people, and not at all with others? |
12264 | But you did n''t like the prospect of going? |
12264 | But you do n''t hate people, Father? |
12264 | But you often tell us to be serious, to be deadly earnest, about our work? |
12264 | But you sometimes bring yourself to form, and even express, an opinion? |
12264 | But,I said,"do you mean that Newman calculated all his effects?" |
12264 | But,I said,"surely the people who make claims for affection are very often most beloved, even when they are unjust, inconsiderate, ill- tempered?" |
12264 | But,I said,"the passion of lovers-- isn''t that all based on the worship of something infinitely superior to oneself?" |
12264 | But,persisted Rose,"is n''t that simply a possible proof of the general declension of force?" |
12264 | But,said I,"do n''t many quite poor people live happily and contentedly and kindly with minute incomes?" |
12264 | Come, what shall we do to- day? |
12264 | Did he say that? |
12264 | Did he want to try a similar experiment? |
12264 | Did you ever see such a bit of pure force? |
12264 | Do we belong to your party, sir, or do you belong to ours? |
12264 | Do we know what anything_ means_? 12264 Do you ever garden?" |
12264 | Do you like it? |
12264 | Do you remember Rose''s song about him? |
12264 | Do you remember,said Barthrop,"the lines in Tennyson''s Guinevere, which sum up the knightly attributes? |
12264 | Do you think one ought to try to catch a sight of great men who are contemporaries? |
12264 | Do you wish us to be married? |
12264 | Does he expect us to go? |
12264 | Does he want me to go, or does he not? |
12264 | Does he want you to pay some more? |
12264 | Does that mean anything in particular? |
12264 | Father Payne, do n''t you understand? 12264 He was never married, I suppose?" |
12264 | How am I to tell? |
12264 | How are you going to separate people''s qualities and attributes from themselves? 12264 How do you know? |
12264 | How ought one to care for people? |
12264 | How would you mend it? |
12264 | How_ can_ people talk through that? 12264 I give up,"said Rose:"can nothing be logical?" |
12264 | I quite agree,said Father Payne,"but why mix up honour with it at all? |
12264 | I suppose he is about fifty- eight or so? 12264 I suppose we come in somewhere?" |
12264 | I, dear man? |
12264 | Is he letting me down with a compliment? |
12264 | Is it not possible to believe,I said,"that all experience may be good for us, however harsh it seems?" |
12264 | Is n''t he magnificent? |
12264 | Is n''t it a question of imagination? |
12264 | Is n''t it a sense of security? |
12264 | Is n''t it better to go on with the delusion that you are just as good as ever-- like Wordsworth and Browning? |
12264 | Is n''t that a rare thing? |
12264 | Is n''t that just one of the large generalisations,he said,"which you are always telling us to beware of?" |
12264 | Is n''t that just the most awful problem of all, the listlessness which falls on many of us, as the limitations draw round and the net encloses us? |
12264 | Is n''t that rather immoral? |
12264 | Is n''t that what is called hedonism? |
12264 | Is not that the idea which Christianity aims at? |
12264 | It is possible-- isn''t it? |
12264 | Lie still, ca n''t you? |
12264 | Like it? |
12264 | Look at the gray bloom on those blades,he said;"is n''t that perfect? |
12264 | May I ask you something? |
12264 | May it not only mean a decrease of personal courage, and a greater sensitiveness to pain? |
12264 | May n''t we have the benefit of some of it? |
12264 | May n''t you want a friend to improve? 12264 Now what do you say,"said Vincent,"to us two trying to go there for a bit? |
12264 | Now what does he say to you? |
12264 | Old debts with compound interest? |
12264 | People give up their comfort, their careers, they go to face the last risk-- is that nothing? |
12264 | Perhaps I ought not to say that? |
12264 | Perhaps,said Kaye;"but does n''t that make it more wasteful still? |
12264 | So, you think of becoming one of the gentlemen, sir? |
12264 | Surely that is all right, Father Payne? |
12264 | That is a reasonable general scheme,said Barthrop,"but what about special aptitudes?" |
12264 | That is the exclusive feeling then? |
12264 | The thing can surely be much simpler than that? |
12264 | Then it comes to this,I said,"that affection is a mutual recognition of beauty and a sense of equality?" |
12264 | Then it comes to this,said Vincent drily,"that you ca n''t be inclusive, and that you ought not to be exclusive?" |
12264 | Then it does not matter,said Father Payne,"whether they are united by the complacency of conquest or by the desire for revenge?" |
12264 | Then prayer, you think,I said,"is to you just one of the natural processes of life?" |
12264 | Then reason is the ultimate guide? |
12264 | Then what_ are_ you to do? |
12264 | Then who_ is_ worth seeing? |
12264 | Then why was he so elaborately tortured first? |
12264 | Then with you prayer is n''t a process of asking? |
12264 | There''s Boswell''s Johnson-- why does that stand almost alone? |
12264 | Ultimately? |
12264 | Well, then,he said,"where''s the vocation in all this? |
12264 | Well, then,said Lestrange,"what is the ultimate thing?" |
12264 | Well, what did you think of our guest? |
12264 | What about Pharisees? |
12264 | What about my friend Pearce, the schoolmaster? |
12264 | What are you doing just now? |
12264 | What are you doing? |
12264 | What are you going to do with them? |
12264 | What can I say that will be worthy of myself? |
12264 | What did you say? |
12264 | What do you believe, then? |
12264 | What do you mean? |
12264 | What do you think yourself? |
12264 | What do you_ do_, then? |
12264 | What does he_ do_ mostly? |
12264 | What exactly do you mean by''ca n''t do''? |
12264 | What is his line exactly? |
12264 | What is the cad, then? |
12264 | What is there to say? |
12264 | What is this? |
12264 | What sort of things do you mean? |
12264 | What was it all about? |
12264 | What was that? |
12264 | What were they about? |
12264 | What were you doing? |
12264 | What will you really do? |
12264 | Who on earth is Gladwin? |
12264 | Whom do you mean, then? |
12264 | Whose life was it? |
12264 | Why did n''t we make up to her? |
12264 | Why do n''t you travel more, then? |
12264 | Why mix yourself up with it at all? |
12264 | Why not? |
12264 | Why on earth did you go on reading it? |
12264 | Why on earth do you say that? |
12264 | Why should you care to hear about all this? 12264 Why wo n''t he say such things to me?" |
12264 | Why, Father,I said boldly,"if you feel like that, why do n''t you put in for her yourself? |
12264 | Why, what does loyalty mean in such a connection? 12264 Why? |
12264 | Why? |
12264 | Why? |
12264 | Will you go and see that they have brought your things down? 12264 Would you like a fire?" |
12264 | Yes, but in a school,said Vincent,"would not the boys themselves resent it, if they were punished differently for the same offence?" |
12264 | Yes, but what_ are_ you, after all? |
12264 | Yes, that is all right,said Father Payne,"but how is it when there are two''oughts,''as there often are? |
12264 | Yes, there is a good deal in that,said Father Payne,"but ought not the trained critics to withstand it?" |
12264 | Yes, what was it? |
12264 | Yes, who is it, Vincent? |
12264 | Yes,said Father Payne;"heredity is just one of the evil devices-- but do n''t you see the stupidity of it? |
12264 | You mean it is something mystical-- almost hypnotic? |
12264 | You mean that it was mostly humbug? |
12264 | You mean that the difference between pride and vanity lies there? |
12264 | You see the idea? |
12264 | You thought all that? |
12264 | You will let us know how all goes? |
12264 | ''But I thought you did n''t know them?'' |
12264 | ''I say to him,''says Keats,''why not the pen sometimes first?'' |
12264 | ''Is it that you feel ill?'' |
12264 | ''Who put the evil there?'' |
12264 | After all, what is it that we want with each other?--what do we expect to get from each other? |
12264 | And if so, why? |
12264 | And odder still, why do I like the look of it?" |
12264 | And then I ask myself,''Ought I, as a normal human being, to be as one- sided, as submissive, as trivial, as sentimental as this?'' |
12264 | And then, what does caring about people mean? |
12264 | And what do you make of the old proverb,''All is fair in love and war''? |
12264 | Anything else, sir? |
12264 | Are not the nations who live in warmer climates less attached to material things simply because they are less important?" |
12264 | Are you sure that you are not only expressing the feeling of relief in the community at having a danger over? |
12264 | Are you to go on saying you admire it, or to pretend to yourself that you admire it? |
12264 | Are you to throw him over?" |
12264 | Bland might have a walk and discuss the signs of the times?" |
12264 | But I expect it is only your idea of modesty?" |
12264 | But I only wanted to know if you would come for a stroll? |
12264 | But are you serious? |
12264 | But do any of you men realise what an absolutely enchanting person he is? |
12264 | But for whose delight?" |
12264 | But the little people, who simply end further back than they began, what is to be done for them?" |
12264 | But what does the simple botanist-- that''s me-- say? |
12264 | But what if you have made a friend, and then ceased to care for him, and he goes on caring for you? |
12264 | Ca n''t one feel that nature is half- tender, half- indifferent to our broken designs?" |
12264 | Can I really be like that?''" |
12264 | Can anyone define it?" |
12264 | Can anyone say what practical advice he could have given to either Carlyle or to Mrs. Carlyle, which would have improved that witches''cauldron? |
12264 | Can one indeed love the Unknown? |
12264 | Can we really ever gain an idea, or can we only recognise our own ideas?" |
12264 | Canst work i''the earth so fast? |
12264 | Cleansing fires? |
12264 | Did Newman, do you suppose, not realise that he had done that? |
12264 | Did you ever see anything so enchanting as that aconite? |
12264 | Do n''t you feel yourself as if you were good for centuries of living?" |
12264 | Do n''t you know how the mildest people are often disposed to make out that they were reckless and daring scapegraces at school? |
12264 | Do n''t you know the curious delight of seeing a house once inhabited by anyone whom one has much admired and loved? |
12264 | Do n''t you know the misery of being jerked back, time after time, by an unpleasant thought? |
12264 | Do n''t you remember what Mr. Feeblemind says? |
12264 | Do n''t you see that not yielding to a bad impulse is fighting? |
12264 | Do not you see in them something calm, continuous, active-- happy, in fact-- at work; often tripped up and imprisoned, and thwarted-- but moving on?" |
12264 | Do we really want the company of any one for ever and ever? |
12264 | Do we want to agree or to disagree? |
12264 | Do we want to hear about other people''s experiences, or do we simply want to tell our own? |
12264 | Do you grasp all that?" |
12264 | Do you mind the light? |
12264 | Do you remember that epithet of Keats, about the''cool- rooted''flowers? |
12264 | Do you remember that stone we broke the other day? |
12264 | Do you remember the story of Hans Andersen, when he went to see the King of Denmark? |
12264 | Do you remember the subject proposed in a school debating society,''That too much athletics is worthy of our admiration''? |
12264 | Do you remember what Lamb said of Barry Cornwall''s wen on the nape of his neck? |
12264 | Do you say any prayers?" |
12264 | Do you suppose I''m going to sit here, with all you fellows enjoying yourselves, and not have my bit of fun? |
12264 | Does anyone''s mind really dwell on such things and ponder them? |
12264 | Does not the newspaper- convention misrepresent us as much as the book- convention misrepresents us? |
12264 | Does that sound profane to you?" |
12264 | Does your idea of loyalty apply also to books, Lestrange, or to music?" |
12264 | Even the toughest old veteran soldier-- how many hours of his life has he spent actually under fire? |
12264 | Father Payne always said that we must not depend helplessly upon persons or institutions, but must find our own real life and live it-- you remember?" |
12264 | Father Payne beamed upon me with an indulgent air, and I said:"May I ask what you were doing?" |
12264 | Father Payne gave a chuckle, and Lestrange looked pained,"Ought n''t one to have a code of honour?" |
12264 | Father Payne uttered a short, loud laugh at this, and said:"Is there any chance of meeting your aunt?" |
12264 | Have you any more stories of the same sort about her?" |
12264 | Have you ever done any essay work?" |
12264 | Have you never noticed how all converts personify their new Church in feminine terms? |
12264 | He said suddenly,"Do you know one of the advantages of growing old? |
12264 | He stopped in the middle of the copse, and said:"Did you ever see anything so perfectly lovely as this place? |
12264 | He was silent for a minute, and then he said:"Do you believe in God?" |
12264 | He would stop to whistle to a caged bird:"You like your little prison, do n''t you, sweet?" |
12264 | Here, you do n''t know which your room is, I suppose?" |
12264 | How can I put it? |
12264 | How do we know exactly how much time a man ought to allot to sleep, to work, to leisure? |
12264 | How do you affect my solitude, or I yours? |
12264 | How do you know that God made the nasty things? |
12264 | How does that strike you?" |
12264 | How long has he seemed to be ill, by the way?" |
12264 | How otherwise should one learn to hate oneself? |
12264 | How would the world get on without it?" |
12264 | I could not tell what it was, but Father Payne knew it, might show it me? |
12264 | I do n''t mean troubled about anything in particular-- there''s nothing to be troubled about-- but simply sad, in a causeless, listless way?" |
12264 | I do n''t wonder the author felt it necessary to remind you-- or perhaps he was reminding himself? |
12264 | I mean, may it not be right to interpose it, but yet not right to follow it? |
12264 | I recognise the fascination of it as much as anyone can-- but is n''t it, as you said about travelling, a kind of intoxication? |
12264 | I said--"to get a namby- pamby way of writing-- what a reviewer calls painfully kind?" |
12264 | I would rather they would not sell it-- but bless me, what does it matter? |
12264 | If I had the great manner, I should say,"Why, Tommy, is that you?" |
12264 | If a man had said to Ruskin or Carlyle,''Why do you write all these books?'' |
12264 | If he has some patent and obvious fault, I mean?" |
12264 | If it comes to that, is n''t it quite as good a discipline for punctual people to learn to wait without impatience for the unpunctual? |
12264 | If we are creatures of a day, why should we be interested? |
12264 | If you hate nobody, what reason is there for trying to improve? |
12264 | Is he one, by the way?" |
12264 | Is it a pose to behave amiably when you are tired or cross?" |
12264 | Is it more than the sense of gratitude of a man who has not suffered unbearably, to the people who_ have_ died and suffered? |
12264 | Is it not of the essence of love to be blind? |
12264 | Is it possible for us to feel that we are worthy of the love of anyone who really knows us? |
12264 | Is it to be passion, or admiration, or reverence, or fidelity, or pity? |
12264 | Is n''t it a good impulse to put your best before a guest?" |
12264 | Is n''t it a selfish thing, and does n''t it do the very thing which you often speak against-- blind us to other experience, that is?" |
12264 | Is n''t it more because we recognise our own feelings than because we make acquaintance with unfamiliar feelings? |
12264 | Is n''t it rather-- well,--weak?" |
12264 | Is n''t that possible? |
12264 | Is that held to be for ever binding on a nation till it is formally repealed? |
12264 | Is the point of it that we want similarity or difference? |
12264 | It comes to this? |
12264 | It may not be as good as you hoped-- nothing ever is-- but surely it is better than you expected?" |
12264 | It seems to say,''Why should I hang here, covered with soot, with this mob of people jostling along below, in all this noise and dirt?'' |
12264 | It would be easy to love God if He were like that-- yet who dares to say it or to teach it? |
12264 | It would give me a reason for accepting what I must confess would be a humiliation,''Is n''t that infernal? |
12264 | It''s no use talking about the laws of matter-- why are the laws of matter what they are, and not different? |
12264 | No-- I was n''t working, was I? |
12264 | No? |
12264 | No? |
12264 | Now, have you noticed anything?" |
12264 | Now, if I ask you, who are a bit of a poet, what those leaves are, what do you say? |
12264 | Of course it''s little enough that we can do: but think of old Mrs. Chetwynd again-- what has she to give? |
12264 | Of course war has a great and instinctive prestige about it; are we not misled by that into accepting it as an inevitable business?" |
12264 | People who ca n''t understand each other or their children-- children who ca n''t understand their parents? |
12264 | Perhaps you do n''t think there''s much solitude about our life? |
12264 | Personally, I am not easily pleased: but then what does it matter whether I am pleased or not?" |
12264 | Presently he said,"Do you know what it is to feel_ sad_? |
12264 | Reverie-- has anyone ever tried to represent that? |
12264 | Send me Vincent, will you-- there''s a good man? |
12264 | Shall I use my influence in your favour, my boy? |
12264 | Supposing an unpunctual person were to say,''I do it on principle, to teach precise people not to mind waiting,''where is the flaw in that? |
12264 | That''s pretty beastly, you know, but how is one to help it? |
12264 | The question, is, why is it so beautiful? |
12264 | Then he said,"I suppose this was a vacuum in here till it was broken? |
12264 | Then he said:"Stay a few minutes, wo n''t you, unless you are pressed? |
12264 | Then turning to me, he said,"Gladwin? |
12264 | They have_ life!_""But that is very far from being art, is n''t it?" |
12264 | Was it really a finer life to chatter at dinner- parties and tea- parties, and occasionally to inspect an orphanage? |
12264 | Was it true, as Tennyson bluntly said, that it was as well that they married, because two people were unhappy instead of four?" |
12264 | Was it very bad?" |
12264 | We have all of us faults; we know them, our friends know them-- why the devil should not everyone know them? |
12264 | Well you know how he always seems to be doing something? |
12264 | Were they impossible people to live with? |
12264 | What are you to do then?" |
12264 | What child could love a father who might at any time strike him? |
12264 | What could have been done for them? |
12264 | What do I want, then, with the pretty child? |
12264 | What do you mean by honour?" |
12264 | What do you think of it? |
12264 | What do you think, Gladwin?" |
12264 | What do you think?" |
12264 | What do you want?" |
12264 | What do_ you_ mean by friendship, Father?" |
12264 | What is there to like about many of us?" |
12264 | What is your difficulty?" |
12264 | What ought people to do about stopping?" |
12264 | What sort of a book is it?" |
12264 | What sort of love are we to give God-- the love of the lover, or the son, or the daughter, or the friend, or the patriot, or the dog? |
12264 | What were we in for? |
12264 | What_ is_ pose, after all? |
12264 | Where and how does the thing go wrong? |
12264 | Where are your eyes and ears? |
12264 | Where is the dignity of that? |
12264 | Where will you all be five years hence?'' |
12264 | Who are_ you_, after all? |
12264 | Who but an American would have heard of our little experiment here, and not only wanted to know-- they all do that-- but positively arranged to know? |
12264 | Who can feel free in will, if that is the case? |
12264 | Who could care about the future of the world, if he was to be banished from it for ever? |
12264 | Who, on arriving at home, can lose himself in wondering where his fellow- travellers have got to? |
12264 | Why are we not all as greedy and dirty as the old cave- men? |
12264 | Why be so undignified? |
12264 | Why ca n''t we leave each other alone? |
12264 | Why could n''t he leave Europe alone? |
12264 | Why did I ever start it? |
12264 | Why do we like books, for instance? |
12264 | Why do you shut everyone out?" |
12264 | Why does loving one person make you want to fight another? |
12264 | Why is the one thing which is important for us to know hidden from us?" |
12264 | Why not wish them to do it well too?" |
12264 | Why should n''t I ask you, for a change?" |
12264 | Why should n''t two people be happy and not look ahead, and all that? |
12264 | Why should we be ashamed of all our better feelings? |
12264 | Why should you confirm them in a wholly erroneous view of justice? |
12264 | Why should you cut yourself off from a place you are so fond of, and which is quite the most beautiful place in England too? |
12264 | Why, is n''t he something tremendous?" |
12264 | Why, was it to be supposed that one could not live worthily unless one was always poking one''s nose into one''s neighbour''s concerns? |
12264 | Will you be ready to go the day after to- morrow? |
12264 | Will you hear a bit of it? |
12264 | Wo n''t some one quote an illustration?" |
12264 | Wo n''t you tell me something more about him?" |
12264 | Would you feel the same if you yourself were turned out a helpless invalid for life with your occupation gone? |
12264 | Yes? |
12264 | You and I are friends-- at least I think so; but what exactly do we give each other? |
12264 | You are going back this afternoon, I think?" |
12264 | You are sure I''m not interfering with any arrangement?" |
12264 | You know the proverb that if you knock too long at a closed door, the Devil opens it to you? |
12264 | You meant to anticipate? |
12264 | You quite understand? |
12264 | You remember Nelson''s frank confession, made not once, but many times, that he pursued glory,''Defeat-- or Westminster Abbey''--didn''t he say that?" |
12264 | and do n''t you remember too how he always said life must be a_ real_ fight-- a joining in the fight that was going forwards? |
12264 | he said, brightening up;"you know about stones too? |
12264 | he said,"But are you sure you do n''t want simply to make a bit of a name-- to be known as a clever man? |
12264 | he said-- and then stopping, he said,"But you wanted something-- what is it?" |
12264 | said Barthrop,"Is that all you have to say about her? |
12264 | said Barthrop:"do they really express anything more than a contempt for weakness and sentiment?" |
12264 | said Father Payne,"why should it be bad? |
12264 | said Gladwin very gently;"I think this is new?" |
12264 | you may say,''and how did it get there first?'' |