The Biographical History of Philosophy: From Its Origin in Greece Down to the Present Day

Predný obal
D. Appleton, 1893 - 801 strán (strany)

Vyhľadávanie v obsahu knihy

Iné vydania - Zobraziť všetky

Časté výrazy a frázy

Populárne pasáže

Strana 328 - haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanish'd, They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old
Strana 59 - OF THE UNIVERSE, AND ON THE ORIGIN OF KNOWLEDGE. CHAPTER I. § I. HERACLITUS. " LIFE is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel." This, Horace Walpole's epigram, may be applied to Democritus and Heraclitus, celebrated throughout antiquity as the laughing and the weeping philosophers : "One pitied, one condemn'd the woeful times; One
Strana 497 - I mean fancy itself, we call imagination, as I have said before ; but when we would express the decay, and signify that the sense is fading, old, and past, it is called memory. So that imagination and memory are but one thing, which for divers considerations hath divers names.
Strana 566 - spite of Hume's opinions, so wise and good a man as Adam Smith could publicly write of him, " Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both during his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise
Strana 522 - In time the mind comes to reflect on its own operations about the ideas got by sensation, and thereby stores itself with a new set of ideas, which I call ideas of reflection. These are the impressions which are made on our senses by outward objects that are extrinsical to the mind, and its own operations
Strana 574 - other. We only find that the one does actually in fact follow the other. The impulse of one billiard-ball is attended with motion in the second. This is the whole that appears to the outward senses. The mind feels no sentiment or inward impression from this succession of objects ; consequently there is not, in any single instance of cause
Strana 548 - in the plainest terms I could think of. ... It will be urged that thus much at least is true, viz. that we take away all corporeal substances. To this my answer is, that if the word substance be taken in the vulgar sense for a combination of sensible qualities, such as extension solidity, weight, etc., this
Strana 328 - The fuir humanities of old religion, The Power, the Beauty, and the Majesty, That had her haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanish'd, They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old
Strana 554 - is to be perceived or known ; and consequently, so long as they are not actually perceived by me, or do not exist in my mind, or that of any other created spirit, they
Strana 554 - a word, all the choir of heaven and furniture of earth— all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world— have not any subsistence without a mind : their

Bibliografické informácie