If an opinion can eventually go to the determination of a practical belief, it, in so far, becomes itself a practical belief; and ...every proposition that is not pure metaphysical jargon and chatter must have some possible bearing upon practice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whenever a man acts purposively, he acts under a belief in some experimental phenomenon. Consequently, the sum of the experimental... phenomena that a proposition implies makes up its entire bearing upon human conduct.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of ...a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that ma...y come upon him hereafter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The doctrines of Christians and Jews are the closest of all the world's religions. Particularly in the bearing of religious faith ...upon social, political, economic, and cultural concerns in this world, the vocations of Jews and Christians are remarkably analogous. Both are narrative religions. Both are religions of The Book. Both religions teach respect for this world, for the flesh, for the concrete. Both religions instruct their members in a vocation not merely to escape from this world but to change this world. Both find the historical task of modernization a challenge, yet a challenge to be taken up in faith and in hope. More easily than any other of the major religions both seem to adjust--although not without enormous struggle--to modern urban life. Both have a commitment to intellect in its rational and scientific parts as well as its mystical, poetic, and intuitive parts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects ...at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the vagabond began To sketch a face that well might buy the soul of any man.... Then, as he placed another lock upon the shapely head, With a fearful shriek, he leaped and fell across the picture--dead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I reside at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James; I am not up to small deceit, or any sinful games;... And I'll tell in simple language what I know about the row That broke up our society upon the Stanislow. But first I would remark, that it is not a proper plan For any scientific man to whale his fellow-man,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »