Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was th...e Work of a Being transcendently Wise and Powerful. As the World grew more enlightened in this Art, their Discoveries gave them fresh Opportunities of admiring the Conduct of Providence in the Formation of an Human Body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an... inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at w...ork; else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers as they universally do?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He could foretell whats'ever was By consequence to come to pass.... As Death of Great Men, Alterations, Diseases, Battels, Inundations. All this without th' Eclipse of Sun, Or dreadful Comet, he hath done By inward Light, a way as good,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Money indeed may be considered as the most universal and expressive of all languages. For gold and silver coins are no more money ...when not in the actual process of being voluntarily used in purchase, than words not so in use are language. Pounds, shillings, and pence are recognized covenanted tokens, the outward and visible signs of an inward and spiritual purchasing power, but till in actual use they are only potential money, as the symbols of language, whatever they may be, are only potential language till they are passing between two minds. It is the power and will to apply the symbols that alone gives life to money, and as long as they are in abeyance, the money is in abeyance also; the coins may be safe in one's pocket, but they are as dead as a log till they begin to burn in it, and so are our words till they begin to burn within us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet, Saxham, thou within thy gate Art of thyself so delicate,... So full of native sweets that bless Thy roof with inward happiness, As neither from nor to thy store Winter takes aught, or spring adds more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation of... the word, is supposed to constitute happiness, will never quiet, much less cure, the inward pangs of guilt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion than by re...ality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigour and power of the mind, dis...playing itself from within.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Both were predominantly ethical in aim and doctrine; theory of knowledge (logic) and of nature (physics) served rather as the scaf...folding rather than as an integral portion of their philosophic structure, while metaphysics, the kernel of Platonic and Aristotelian speculation, receded altogether into the background.... When we ask as to the nature of the philosophic life, the two schools give widely different answers. To the Stoic, it consists in following virtue, in obedience to an authoritative law of nature or reason; the sage, by subjugating emotion, and by detachment from the restless world of circumstance, disciplines his soul to self-sufficiency and inward independence. To the Epicurean, the good life is that of rational enjoyment of all the satisfactions which the world affords.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »