 | Jean-Frédéric Astié - 1855 - Počet stránok 560
...vapor, a drop of water is sufficient to kill him. But should the universe crush him, man would be still more noble than that which kills him, because he knows that he dies; and the advantage the universe has over him, it is unconscious of." We here come to the most pathetic part of the work.... | |
 | Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet - 1859 - Počet stránok 360
...drop of water, is sufficient to kill him. But though the universe should crush him, man would still be more noble than that which kills him, because he knows that he dies, and the universe knows nothing of the advantage that it has over him. — All our dignity then consists in... | |
 | Blaise Pascal - 1859 - Počet stránok 562
...of air, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But were the universe to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which kills him, because he knows that he dies ; and the universe knows nothing of the advantage it has over him.i Our whole dignity consists, then, in thought.... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1860 - Počet stránok 490
...vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But though the universe should crush him, man would still be more noble than that which kills him, because he knows that he dies, whereas the universe knows nothing of the advantage which it has over him. " The whole of our dignity... | |
 | Charles Beard - 1861 - Počet stránok 552
...Pyrenees, error on that." * " Justice is that which is established."! * Pensees, ed. Havet, p. 40. f Ibid. p. 73. " Justice is subject to dispute ; force is...world has over him. The universe knows nothing of it."J Our sense of the grandeur of the human mind appears in the disproportionate value which we set... | |
 | 1862 - Počet stránok 692
...supposed to possess a circulatory system as here described. the universe to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which kills him, because he knows that he dies, and the universe knows nothing of the advantage it has over him. Our whole dignity consists, then, in thought.... | |
 | William George Williams - 1872 - Počet stránok 398
...of air, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But were the universe to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which kills him, because he knows that he dies, and the universe knows nothing of the advantage it has over him." " Behold this midnight glory : worlds on... | |
 | Lucien Henry - 1873 - Počet stránok 224
...of water, suffices to kill him. But, though the universe should crush him, man would still be nobler than that which kills him because he knows that he dies, and whatever advantage the universe has over him, the universe knows it not. So our whole dignity consists... | |
 | 1891 - Počet stránok 594
...vapor, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But though the universe should crush him, man would still be more noble than that which kills him, because he knows that he is dying ; and of the advantage which the universe has over him, the universe knows nothing. All our... | |
 | Egbert Coffin Smyth - 1886 - Počet stránok 294
...of air, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But were the universe to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which kills him, because he knows that he dies, and the universe knows nothing of the advantage which it has over him." Law elevates man to the dignity of... | |
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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature , but he is a thinking reed The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water suffices to kill him But, if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than... 
