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Page 13
... true that human reason is fallible . In- fallibility is an absolute , a concept of the mind , and not a reality . Life has not given us infallibility , any more than it has given us omniscience , or omnipotence , or any other of those ...
... true that human reason is fallible . In- fallibility is an absolute , a concept of the mind , and not a reality . Life has not given us infallibility , any more than it has given us omniscience , or omnipotence , or any other of those ...
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... true . But first among the products of that cunning brain has been the knowledge that by himself he is the most helpless and pitiful of creatures , while standing together and forming societies and developing moralities , he is master ...
... true . But first among the products of that cunning brain has been the knowledge that by himself he is the most helpless and pitiful of creatures , while standing together and forming societies and developing moralities , he is master ...
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... true , and since that time it has not occurred to any professor of political science to visit a farm . And all the while , out in the suburbs of the city where the college is located , market gardeners are practicing on an enormous ...
... true , and since that time it has not occurred to any professor of political science to visit a farm . And all the while , out in the suburbs of the city where the college is located , market gardeners are practicing on an enormous ...
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... true morality , and it is incompatible with the existence of any fixed code , whether of human origin or divine . The fixed morality is a survival of a far - off past , of the days of instinct and servitude . Human reason has developed ...
... true morality , and it is incompatible with the existence of any fixed code , whether of human origin or divine . The fixed morality is a survival of a far - off past , of the days of instinct and servitude . Human reason has developed ...
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... true success . It is inconvenient , be- cause it involves working your brains , and most people have not been taught to do this , and find it the hardest kind of work there is . But how much better it is to think for your- self , and to ...
... true success . It is inconvenient , be- cause it involves working your brains , and most people have not been taught to do this , and find it the hardest kind of work there is . But how much better it is to think for your- self , and to ...
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Page 196 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath...
Page 197 - Nor ruin make accusers great; Who God doth late and early pray More of His grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend; — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands; And have nothing, yet hath all.
Page 197 - Whose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great ; Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day, With a religious book or friend.
Page 39 - The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Page 44 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night — It was the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Page 174 - I would not like to guess just what percentage of dying people in our hospitals might be saved if the doctors would withdraw all food from them...
Page 21 - ... reactionary (according as he placed his good either in the future or the past), or, thirdly, pessimistic, as in the poetry of regret or of despair. Hesiod sings of a lost golden age, and in this he represents the most pervading sentiment of ancient culture. Dante, on the other hand, had fixed his gaze on ' one far off divine event, towards which the whole Creation moves.
Page 41 - I say to you that if you want to find happiness in this life, look with distrust upon all absolutes, and ultimates, all hard and fast rules, all formulas and dogmas and "general principles." Bear in mind that there are many factors in every case, there are many complications in every human being, there are many sides to every question. Try to keep an open mind and an even temper. Try to take an interest in learning something new every day, and in trying some new experiment. This is the scientific...
Page 41 - ... general principles." Bear in mind that there are many factors in every case, there are many complications in every human being, there are many sides to every question. Try to keep an open mind and an even temper. Try to take an interest in learning something new every day, and in trying some new experiment. This is the scientific attitude toward life; this is the way of growth and of true success. It is inconvenient, because it involves working your brains, and most people have not been taught...
Page 173 - I have known of two or three cases of people dying while they were fasting," Sinclair writes in his Book of Life, "but I feel quite certain that the fast did not cause their death, they would have died anyhow.