As for the terms good and bad, they indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinkin...g, or notions which we form from the comparison of things with one another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him who mourns; for him who is deaf, it is neither good nor bad.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same and everywhere one and the... same in her efficiency and power of action; that is, nature's laws and ordinances whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fi...tted only to the most exalted geniuses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object, ...so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And so we ask for peace for the gods of our fathers, for the gods of our native land. It is reasonable that whatever each of us wo...rships is really to be considered one and the same. We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe compasses us. What does it matter what practical systems we adopt in our search for the truth. Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Definitions are like belts. The shorter they are, the more elastic they need to be. A short belt reveals nothing about its wearer:... by stretching, it can be made to fit almost anybody. And a short definition, applied to a heterogeneous set of examples, has to be expanded and contracted, qualified and reinterpreted, before it will fit every case. Yet the hope of hitting on some definition which is at one and the same time satisfactory and brief dies hard: much can be learned by seeing how much elasticity is ultimately required of such portmanteau definitions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are two kinds of fathers in traditional households: the fathers of sons and the fathers of daughters. These two kinds of fat...hers sometimes co-exist in one and the same man. For instance, Daughter's Father kisses his little girl goodnight, strokes her hair, hugs her warmly, then goes into the next room where he becomes Son's Father, who says in a hearty voice, perhaps with a light punch on the boy's shoulder: "Goodnight, Son, see ya in the morning."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eter...nal, immutable and increated wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on... earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »