A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all in...tellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a delicious thing to write, whether well or badly M to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own c...reating.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his stand, ...and from it philosophy starts in its study of the universe of mind as well as the universe of nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prima facie, if you should liken the universe of absolute idealism to an aquarium, a crystal globe in which goldfish are swimming,... you would have to compare the empiricist universe to something more like one of those dried human heads with which the Byaks of Borneo deck their lodges. The skull forms a solid nucleus; but innumerable feathers, leaves, strings, beads, and loose appendices of every description float and dangle from it, and, save that they terminate in it, seem to have nothing to do with one another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... if we take the universe of 'fitting,' countless coats 'fit' backs, and countless boots 'fit' feet, on which they are not pract...ically fitted; countless stones 'fit' gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions 'fit' realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So Sam enters the universe of sleep, a man who seeks to live in such a way as to avoid pain, and succeeds merely in avoiding pleas...ure. What a dreary compromise is life!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus roving on In confus'd march forlorn, th' adventrous Bands,... With shuddring horror pale, and eyes agast View'd first thir lamentable lot, and found No rest: through many a dark and drearie Vale They pass'd, and many a Region dolorous, O'er many a Frozen, many a fierie Alpe, Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades of death, A Universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than Fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the ev...ening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My own, my human mind, which passively Now renders and receives fast influencings,... Holding an unremitting interchange With the clear universe of things around;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every obstruction of the course of justice,--is a door opened to betray society, and bereave us of those blessings which it has in... view.... It is a strange way of doing honour to God, to screen actions which are a disgrace to humanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »