It is natural, now, to think of there being connected with a sign (name, combination of words, letter) besides that to which the s...ign refers, which may be called the reference of the sign, also what I should like to call the sense of the sign, wherein the mode of presentation is contained. In our example, accordingly, [an example in which lines a, b, and c all intersect at a single point] the reference of the expressions 'the point of intersection of a and b' and 'the point of intersection of b and c' would be the same, but not their senses. The reference of 'evening star' would be the same as that of 'morning star,' but not the sense.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He says a man may perhaps answer, that the necessity of things held by him, is not a stoical necessity, but a Christian necessity,... &c. But this distinction I have not used, nor indeed have ever heard before, nor could I think any man could make stoical and Christian two kinds of necessity, though they may be two kinds of doctrineLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and mak...es it hard for it to free itself from them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a... livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowl...y but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, ...even a man, only no longer make me me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a l...arge assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of t...he rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in g...reat ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »