Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind, that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important ...one to be, to wit, that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth ... have not any subsistence without a mind, that their being (esse) is to be perceived or known; that consequently so long as they are not actually perceived by me, or do not exist in my mind or that of any other created spirit, they must either have no existence at all, or else subsist in the mind of some eternal spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, "Know thyself," and too often leads to a self-estimate which wil...l subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial... vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange of... good offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with pri...vate well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state.... It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whenever the society is dissolved, it is certain the government of that society cannot remain ... that being as impossible, as for... the frame of a house to subsist when the materials of it are scattered and dissipated by a whirlwind, or jumbled into a confused heap by an earthquake.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Forsake me not thus, Adam! witness Heaven What love sincere and reverence in my heart... I bear thee, and unweeting have offended, Unhappily deceived! Thy suppliant I beg, and clasp thy knees; beereave me not, Whereon I live, thy gentle looks, thy aid, Thy counsel in this uttermost distress, My only strength and stay: forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »