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35875 | But who is privileged to step forward at such a time as judge in his own defense? |
35875 | One did not want to believe this, but what did one imagine such a war to be like if it should ever come about? |
35875 | Shall we not admit that in our civilized attitude towards death we have again lived psychologically beyond our means? |
35875 | Shall we not turn around and avow the truth? |
35875 | Through what process does the individual reach a higher stage of morality? |
17239 | Are we to regard the Creator''s work as like that of a child, who builds houses out of blocks, just for the pleasure of knocking them down? |
17239 | Has all this work been done for nothing? |
17239 | In such case, why should we regard Man as in any higher sense the object of Divine care than a pig? |
17239 | In the cruel strife of centuries has it not often seemed as if the earth were to be rather the prize of the hardest heart and the strongest fist? |
17239 | Indeed, why should it? |
17239 | Is it all ephemeral, all a bubble that bursts, a vision that fades? |
17239 | When have we ever before held such a clew to the meaning of Christ in the Sermon on the Mount? |
44867 | And beyond those limits--? |
44867 | And now, how far is it possible at the present time to speculate on the particular outline the future will assume when it is investigated in this way? |
44867 | And suppose it was a rather important promise? |
44867 | Are we simply separating and contrasting two sides of everybody''s opinion? |
44867 | But suppose it was not such very great suffering we were going to inflict, but only some suffering? |
44867 | But why? |
44867 | How far may we hope to get trustworthy inductions about the future of man? |
44867 | Why are we so bound to it? |
44867 | Why should not this rising curve rise yet more steeply and swiftly? |
44867 | Why should things cease at man? |
44867 | Would a man do right or wrong if he broke such a promise? |
43618 | ''What will you have?'' |
43618 | And can the slaughter of an innocent victim take away the sins of mankind? |
43618 | And yet how important some of the even trivial ones really are? |
43618 | Can a new wrong expiate old wrongs? |
43618 | How few of these vital conditions, from a physical standpoint, are under our control? |
43618 | We have looked at a few of the phases of human existence; what shall be said of the value of life? |
43618 | What love can a man possess who believes that the destruction of life will atone for evil deeds? |
43618 | What then is the meaning of this-- is humanity traveling in cycles? |
26321 | A materialist, if he were consistent, should laugh such a traveller to scorn, saying,"What guidance or purpose can there be in a material object? |
26321 | But here is just the puzzle: at what point does will or determination enter into the scheme? |
26321 | But is it to be asserted on the strength of that fact that the term"music"has no significance apart from its material manifestation? |
26321 | But is it to be supposed that the complex aggregate_ generated_ the life and mind, as the planet generated its atmosphere? |
26321 | But suppose it was successful; what then? |
26321 | CHAPTER VI MIND AND MATTER What, then, is the probable essence of truth in Professor Haeckel''s philosophy? |
26321 | Can it be said that they too had existed previously in some dormant condition in the ether of space? |
26321 | Can there not be in the universe a multitude of things which matter as we know it is incompetent to express? |
26321 | Do they arise by guidance or by chance? |
26321 | Does that show that the earth generated the life? |
26321 | Have the ideas of Sir Edward Elgar no reality apart from their record on paper and reproduction by an orchestra? |
26321 | How did they manage to spring into being? |
26321 | Is natural selection akin to the verified and practical processes of artificial selection? |
26321 | No\doubt some chemical process: combination or dissociation, something atomic, occurred; but what made it occur just then and in that way? |
26321 | Suppose we grant all this, what then? |
26321 | That they too were closed loops opened out, and their existence thus displayed, by the electric current? |
26321 | The argument represented by"He that formed the eye, shall he not see? |
26321 | We can put things together, and we can set things in motion,--statics and kinetics,--can we do more? |
26321 | Why, then, should it be inconceivable that human beings should receive information from beings in the universe higher than themselves? |
26321 | he that planted the ear, shall he not hear?" |
26321 | or is it wholly alien to them and influenced by chance alone? |
22283 | And so on till we arrive at the question, What caused the principle of causality? |
22283 | But if this is so, is it not obvious that the sense of moral responsibility is rationally justified? |
22283 | But where are we to say that it is satisfied? |
22283 | Do we say that a man is not free to conduct a scientific research, because in conducting it he must employ the needful apparatus? |
22283 | For while in logical order the two problems would stand thus-- Is the Will an agent? |
22283 | For why did Bruno suffer? |
22283 | For, if there were a conflict, it must be caused; but where is the cause of this conflict to come from? |
22283 | How are these physical processes connected with the facts of consciousness? |
22283 | In the first place, Who told the objector that it has not? |
22283 | Is it indeed the ultimate datum of experience, below which the human mind can not go? |
22283 | Or do we say that a man is not free to marry, because in order to do so he must go through a marriage ceremony? |
22283 | Spiritualism being thus unsatisfactory, and materialism impossible, is there yet any third hypothesis in which we may hope to find intellectual rest? |
22283 | What caused this cause? |
22283 | What is the meaning of this movement? |
22283 | What is this basal mystery? |
22283 | What is this connexion? |
22283 | What, then, do we know of_ z_? |
22283 | What, then, shall we say touching this mysterious union of mind and motion? |
22283 | Why, then, do I adduce the name of Bruno at the close of this lecture? |
22283 | Why, then, does not the working of a machine present a subjective side? |
22283 | Yet he nowhere considers the fundamental question-- Why should we suppose that the Will is an agent at all? |
22283 | Yet, when we do so estimate them, what becomes of the evidence of equivalency between the physical causes and the psychical effects? |
22283 | in the region of mind? |
31354 | 87 XXVIII QUESTIONS WITHOUT ANSWERS? |
31354 | A few memories of a life in common? |
31354 | After all, what is a true and worthy prayer, if not the most ardent and disinterested effort to reach and grasp the unknown? |
31354 | And, on the other hand, what would our mind be without our body? |
31354 | Are we to believe that the earth marks the most advanced stage and the most favoured experiment? |
31354 | Because death carries the spirit to some place unknown, shall we reproach it with our bestowal of the body which it leaves with us? |
31354 | But how shall the ego which we know and whose destiny alone concerns us recognize all those things and that superior being whom it has never known? |
31354 | By the accidents of race or birth, by some æsthetic or sentimental hazard? |
31354 | By usage? |
31354 | Could no communication be possible between worlds which must have been born of the same idea and are steeped in it? |
31354 | Do you accuse sleep of the fatigue that oppresses you if you do not yield to it? |
31354 | How could it profit by flashes kindled only to help us escape it? |
31354 | How could that mind remain what it was when there is nothing left to it of that which formed it? |
31354 | How should we know the one power which we never looked in the face? |
31354 | If it seems impossible that anything-- a movement, a vibration, a radiation-- should stop or disappear, why then should thought be lost? |
31354 | If not by our reason, by what then would He have us decide? |
31354 | If so, where is it? |
31354 | If we can not think without horror of the fate of the beloved in the grave, is it death or we that placed him there? |
31354 | Is it death that digs our graves and orders us to keep there that which was made to disappear? |
31354 | Is it formed of sensations of our body, or of thoughts independent of our body? |
31354 | Is not that the prayer of prayers? |
31354 | Let us not, therefore, say to ourselves:"What can it matter? |
31354 | Or has He set within us another higher and surer faculty before which the understanding must yield? |
31354 | Shall we be unhappy there? |
31354 | Shall we have the fate which our senses foretell, or that which our intelligence demands? |
31354 | Shall we leave the finite wherein we dwell to be swallowed up in this or the other infinite? |
31354 | Since the part that we were was unhappy, why should the part that we shall be enjoy a better fortune? |
31354 | Since we have been able to acquire our present consciousness, why should it be impossible for us to acquire another? |
31354 | What composes this sense of the ego which turns each of us into the centre of the universe, the only point that matters in space and time? |
31354 | What is its name? |
31354 | What is that which has already attained perfection trying to achieve? |
31354 | What will be our fate in that infinity? |
31354 | What will become of us amid all this obscurity? |
31354 | What will it do in the presence of that stranger? |
31354 | What would be the mystery of that isolation? |
31354 | What, then, can the thought of the universe have done and against what darkness must it have struggled, to have come no farther than this? |
31354 | Who has not, at a bedside, twenty times wished and not once dared to throw himself at their feet and implore them to show mercy? |
31354 | Who then could have set those insoluble problems to infinity and from what more remote and profound region than itself would they have issued? |
31354 | Would our body be conscious of itself without our mind? |
31354 | XXIII WHICH OF THE TWO SHALL WE KNOW? |
31354 | XXVII SHALL WE BE UNHAPPY THERE? |
13766 | If OEdipus had had the inner refuge of a Marcus Aurelius, what could Destiny have done to him? |
13766 | After all that has been written, elaborated and imagined, do we actually_ know_ more than Omar Khayam knew? |
13766 | After all the self probing of the religious and philosophical, during long centuries, what have we learned? |
13766 | All this is true, but should we therefore despair? |
13766 | And if men triumph, who shall seek you and say?" |
13766 | And if the world fare better will ye know? |
13766 | And now, after endeavouring to grapple with Schopenhauer''s theory of art, what does it come to at last? |
13766 | And then comes the further inevitable question-- What is it? |
13766 | And we may add are the physical and mental processes of the intelligent brain, quicker, or slower than the unintelligent? |
13766 | And what can we not do? |
13766 | But was it unwise? |
13766 | But, my friend, how does an atom think? |
13766 | But, what signs are there of even the beginnings of agreement? |
13766 | Can you conceive any wise man living in the unnatural gloom that overhung Elsinore? |
13766 | Could such a nature be serene? |
13766 | Did not Hamlet curb his instincts of love for Ophelia, and love for books and philosophy, under pressure of the great commandment laid upon him? |
13766 | Does Hegel? |
13766 | Does the time it needs to think, feel, and will become less? |
13766 | Does this prove more than that the two men may have had very different temperaments? |
13766 | Except the gifts of serenity and calmness, what did he lack? |
13766 | For from whence comes the real power thinkers possess over us? |
13766 | For how does that help us? |
13766 | For what life think ye after life to see? |
13766 | Have we a philosophy that explains such an apparently simple thing as how one knows anything-- or of simple consciousness? |
13766 | He ends, and what do we know more as to what mind is? |
13766 | Here is a living complex mind, no matter how I inherit it, here it is; now then, how does it work, what can I do with it? |
13766 | How does Hamlet show he had not the wisdom of life? |
13766 | If a dominant, all powerful soul-- a Jesus-- had been in Hamlet''s palace at Elsinore, would the tragedy of four deaths have happened? |
13766 | Is a Philosophy of Art possible? |
13766 | Is all self- analysis when practised for its own sake necessarily harmful, and unprofitable? |
13766 | Is it a cause, or merely a concurrence? |
13766 | Is it retarding or"quickening the molecular arrangements of the nervous system?" |
13766 | Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? |
13766 | Is there then a sort of self- analysis, which can be carried out for its own sake, and which can be, at the same time, of vital use? |
13766 | It is where? |
13766 | Maeterlinck asks: Where do we find the fatality in Hamlet? |
13766 | Our characters, our powers, our natures, our being-- what are they? |
13766 | Our faculties-- what can we do? |
13766 | This is a suggestion for Mr. Well''s"Anticipations"Is evolution leading us in this direction or the other? |
13766 | Was his blindness inevitable? |
13766 | Was it ignorance of the power of will? |
13766 | Was the tendency of temperament developed by her life and circumstances? |
13766 | We know the outward appearance of an object, of which we say that we know it, but what is it_ in itself_? |
13766 | What can it do for us? |
13766 | What causes it in us? |
13766 | What composition gave him his special temper and character? |
13766 | What is the reason of this faculty, or that want of faculty? |
13766 | What is this inner power, which unifies sensations and how does it come? |
13766 | What power will unearth our self and make us really know what we are and what we can do? |
13766 | What thinker will reduce the quality to intellectual symbols? |
13766 | What was this desire that was involved in the whole aim or system of George Sand''s life? |
13766 | What we want to know definitely from science is: How does this thing which I call my mind work? |
13766 | When Maeterlinck says,"Hamlet''s ignorance puts the seal on his unhappiness,"we may well ask ignorance of what? |
13766 | Whence come the clouds and whither do they go? |
13766 | Why did his mind tend towards Robert Browning, and away from George Eliot? |
13766 | Why did the darkness and the storm of his life give Mazzini so passionate a belief in Humanity, and such an intimate faith in God? |
13766 | Why do certain lines in a poem, curves of beauty in a statue, colour in a picture, produce in us the feelings of beauty and delight? |
13766 | Why does edification, if it is such, produce in me, the sense of a nameless beauty? |
13766 | Why in short did his mind work in the way it did? |
13766 | Why is this so true as to be almost intolerable-- and yet so beautiful? |
13766 | Why tell us that harmonies of art may be traced down to the simplest lines, and, that at the root, lies an aim of edification? |
13766 | Would the evil of Claudius and Queen Gertrude have spread its influence if a wise man had been in the Palace? |
47658 | And suppose that he is forced into the presence of the sun himself, is he not likely to be pained and irritated? 47658 You have read him?" |
47658 | And have we in our limited experience anything that will guide us to the attainment of this object? |
47658 | And is their truth their correspondence? |
47658 | And so the question arises, how far are our ideas about things truths about reality? |
47658 | And to what shall we turn for truth? |
47658 | Are our ideas of this nature? |
47658 | Are they reality? |
47658 | Are we about to be forced to modify our conclusions? |
47658 | Are we, like people in a theatre queue, only able to move from behind forward as the place is vacated for us in front? |
47658 | But even so, the pragmatist will urge, is its truth anything else but its usefulness as shown in the practical consequences of believing it? |
47658 | But what was the nature of the need, and what was the method by which the postulate was called forth? |
47658 | Can we not, for example, have an idea of not- red just as well as an idea of red? |
47658 | Can we or can we not make our conceptions work? |
47658 | Clearly we can not claim to know it by direct experience, by acquaintance; it is not a_ that_ of which we can ask_ what_? |
47658 | Do we not judge its claim to truth by the practical consequences involved in accepting or rejecting it? |
47658 | Does it actually exist? |
47658 | Does not the history of science prove a continual expansion, an increasing{ 53} comprehension? |
47658 | Have we, in the new theory of life and knowledge of Bergson''s philosophy, an answer to the question, What is truth? |
47658 | He has defended that philosopher against the arguments of Plato in a polemical pamphlet entitled_ Plato or Protagoras?_( Oxford, Blackwell). |
47658 | He who knows, can not but know; and he who does not know, can not know.... Where, then, is false opinion? |
47658 | How can that which we perceive be something imperceptible? |
47658 | How, then, can universal illusion be consistent with the possession of truth? |
47658 | If the meaning the intellect assigns to truth is itself not true, how can the intellect serve us? |
47658 | If the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? |
47658 | If the usefulness of the intellect consists in the active production of an illusion, can we say that the intellect leads us to truth? |
47658 | If, then, the understanding works illusion for the sake of action, is it thereby disqualified as an instrument for the attainment of truth? |
47658 | In this way, then, we may answer the perplexing question, How can there be an object of thought in a false judgment? |
47658 | Is a perfectly true idea one in which there exists a point to point correspondence to the reality it represents? |
47658 | Is it not only if we can turn away from the intellect and obtain a non- intellectual intuition that we can know truth? |
47658 | Is not all progress in science made by suggesting a hypothesis, and testing it by experiment to see if it works? |
47658 | Is the Absolute more than an idea? |
47658 | Is there any other verification? |
47658 | It is the asking_ what?_ of every_ that_ of felt experience to which the mind attends. |
47658 | Knowing, then, what reality is, can we say that there is any actual object of thought that conforms to it? |
47658 | May not this be the reason of our failure and the whole explanation of the seeming contradiction? |
47658 | Must we not conclude that knowledge, however useful, is not true? |
47658 | Or does he think of something which he does not know as some other thing which he does not know?" |
47658 | Our problem, then, is to know what constitutes the nature of error in any one of these examples if it is, as each one may be, false? |
47658 | That is the whole meaning of asking, Are they true or false? |
47658 | The fact of error presented a difficulty distinct from the question, What is truth? |
47658 | The pragmatist when he asks, What is truth? |
47658 | The problem of truth is only raised when we ask, What does the agreement of an idea with reality mean? |
47658 | The question What is truth? |
47658 | The_ that_--a simple felt experience-- contains a meaning, brings a message, and we ask_ what_? |
47658 | There is, indeed, if this be so, a deeper irony in the question, What is truth? |
47658 | This is the simple pragmatist test,--does the laboratory worker add to it or find it in any respect insufficient? |
47658 | Was it not true while it was useful, and is it not only now false, if it is false, if it is actually discovered not to be useful? |
47658 | What else but the practical consequences of the truth claim in the form of the hypothesis of an undiscovered planet were ever in question? |
47658 | What is it? |
47658 | What is the nature of the seal by which we stamp this knowledge true? |
47658 | What is true about reality? |
47658 | What kind of knowledge is it that we acquire by description? |
47658 | What, then, is error? |
47658 | What, we shall now ask, can it be that binds together these sense qualities so that we speak of them as a thing? |
47658 | When, then, we ask ourselves, What is truth? |
47658 | Whether the Absolute does or does not exist, is it, either in idea or reality, of any use to us? |
47658 | Why was it felt that they must be other than they were seen to be unless there was another planet? |
47658 | Why were not the observed movements of Uranus accepted as what they were? |
47658 | Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him?... |
47658 | nor even, What is true about truth? |
47658 | was the starting point, and not, What is truth? |
21668 | what are the motive- forces which drive us into this process which we call philosophizing? |
21668 | why philosophize at all? |
21668 | And what is the deepest and furthest reach of our individual soul? |
21668 | And what precisely is the attitude of love towards the physical body? |
21668 | Are not both the"companions of men"and men themselves denied by the very nature of things the realization of this idea? |
21668 | But are there any permanent laws of Beauty by which we may analyse the verdict of this objective vision? |
21668 | But is there not an inevitable frustration and negation of this desire and this will? |
21668 | But it may be asked--"Why can not the physical body serve this necessary purpose of giving personality a local and concrete identity?" |
21668 | But what has common- sense to do with art? |
21668 | But what of"malice"all this time? |
21668 | Can"truth,"can"beauty,"can"goodness"be conceived of as existing in the universe apart from any individual soul? |
21668 | Does he find himself flowing mysteriously forth, along some indescribable"durational"stream, and, as he flows, feeling himself to be that stream? |
21668 | Does it despise the physical body? |
21668 | Does its activity imply an ascetic or a puritanical attitude towards the body and the appetites of the body? |
21668 | Does this hypothesis reduce the tragedy of life to a negligible quantity, or afford a basis upon which any easy optimism could be reared? |
21668 | How should it be that when it is the projection, into the heart of the objective mystery, of the soul''s manifold and complicated essence? |
21668 | How should it be that, when it is one aspect of the outpouring of the very stuff of the soul itself? |
21668 | How should we not understand it, when it has been in so large a measure created by our sorrow and our desire? |
21668 | How then can any philosophy be regarded as a transcript and reflection of reality when at the very start it refuses to take cognizance of this fact? |
21668 | Is it therefore no more than a shred or shard or husk or remnant of inconceivably soulless matter? |
21668 | Is it, for instance, when we know all the conditions of its activity, entirely limited? |
21668 | Is the freedom of the will an illusion? |
21668 | Is the substratum of the soul a portion of it also? |
21668 | My answer to the question"Why do we philosophize?" |
21668 | Of every new aesthetic judgment the question is asked,"does it conflict with private property?" |
21668 | Of every new idea the question is asked,"does it conflict with private property?" |
21668 | Of every new moral valuation the question is asked,"does it conflict with private property?" |
21668 | Or are we made aware of it, in each individual case, by a pure intuitive apprehension? |
21668 | Surely, such an one might protest, it is in the physical body that these find their unity? |
21668 | The sensations of pain and pleasure-- who can deny the primordial and inescapable character of these? |
21668 | We say"the universe"; yet may it not be that there are as many"universes"as there are conscious personalities in this unfathomable world? |
21668 | What does this"love"of his actually imply? |
21668 | What is this mysterious medium? |
21668 | What then is this invisible standard of arbitration? |
21668 | Who can say? |
21668 | Why then do I drop completely, or at least considerably modify, this stress upon the soul''s"creative"power in my final chapter? |
21668 | Why then, when it comes to this particular axiom of irrational common- sense, does he balk and sheer off? |
21668 | _ how_ have we to philosophize if our philosophy is to be an adequate expression of our complete reaction to life? |
21668 | let us leave out the soul, then, and confront the original dilemma"? |
55761 | ( 2) When three persons are sitting at a table, how many distinct tables are there? |
55761 | ( 2) When three persons are sitting at a table, how many distinct tables are there? |
55761 | ( 2) Where are they united? |
55761 | ( 3) When two persons are alone together in a room, how many distinct persons are there? |
55761 | ( 3) When two persons are alone together in a room, how many distinct persons are there? |
55761 | And if not, with what other question must it necessarily be connected? |
55761 | And why are these feelings to be eliminated? |
55761 | Are the actions of men really all of one kind? |
55761 | But are we to trust to good luck, and experiment about until we hit by accident upon the right line? |
55761 | But how about the possibility of social life for men, if each aims only at asserting his own individuality? |
55761 | But how am I to know, prior to all knowledge, that the objects given to me are ideas? |
55761 | But how are we to make the actual calculation? |
55761 | But how else can this happen except we assign a content to the purely formal activity of the Ego? |
55761 | But is it justifiable to lump together actions of this kind with those in which a man is conscious not only of his actions but also of their causes? |
55761 | But is it not possible to make the old a measure for the new? |
55761 | But is this reflection capable of supporting any positive alternative? |
55761 | But what if this"thing- in- itself,"this whole transcendent ground of the world, should be nothing but a fiction? |
55761 | But what of the claim that this view is based on experience? |
55761 | But what of the freedom of an action about the motives of which we reflect? |
55761 | But what right have we to say that in the absence of sense- organs the whole process would not exist at all? |
55761 | But, is not precisely this actually the case with pure concepts and ideas? |
55761 | But, what if they are not valid at all? |
55761 | Can I say of it that it acts on my soul? |
55761 | Can we regard man as a whole in himself, in view of the fact that he grows out of a whole and fits as a member into a whole? |
55761 | Does freedom of will, then, mean being able to will without ground, without motive? |
55761 | Does not the world cause thoughts in the minds of men with the same necessity as it causes the blossoms on plants? |
55761 | Have I, then, any right at all to start from it in my arguments? |
55761 | Have they any intelligible meaning? |
55761 | Have we any right to consider the question of the freedom of the will by itself at all? |
55761 | He asks, How much can we learn about them indirectly, seeing that we can not observe them directly? |
55761 | He can not will what he wills? |
55761 | How comes it that the simple real manifests itself in a two- fold manner, if it is an indivisible unity? |
55761 | How do we come to differentiate ourselves from what is"objective,"and to contrast"Ego"and"Non- Ego?" |
55761 | How does Matter come to think of its own nature? |
55761 | How does the matter appear when we recognise the absoluteness of thought? |
55761 | How is it possible for my thought to be relevantly related to the object? |
55761 | How is it possible to start knowledge anywhere at all? |
55761 | How is it that we are compelled to make these continual corrections in our observations? |
55761 | How should I make of my thought an exception? |
55761 | How should Mind be aware of what goes on in Matter, seeing that the essential nature of Matter is quite alien to Mind? |
55761 | How should it matter to me whether I can do a thing or not, if I am forced by the motive to do it? |
55761 | How, in any case, is it possible for me to argue from my own subjective view of the world to that of another human being? |
55761 | How, then, do I know that he and I are in a common world? |
55761 | I can now ask myself: Over and above the percepts just mentioned, what else is there in the section of space in which they are? |
55761 | If human organisation has no part in the essential nature of thinking, what is its function within the whole nature of man? |
55761 | If the question be asked, What is man''s purpose in life? |
55761 | Is not every man compelled to measure the deliverances of his moral imagination by the standard of traditional moral principles? |
55761 | Is reason able also to strike the balance? |
55761 | Kant assumed their validity and only asks, What are the conditions of their validity? |
55761 | Metaphysical Realism must ask, What is it that gives us our percepts? |
55761 | Or how in these circumstances should Mind act upon Matter, so as to translate its intentions into actions? |
55761 | Our present question is, what do we gain by supplementing a process with a conceptual counterpart? |
55761 | Our questions are the following:( 1) Are things continuous or intermittent in their existence? |
55761 | Philosophers still ask such questions as, What is the purpose of the world? |
55761 | Seeing that, at the outset, we attach no predicates whatever to the Given, we are bound to ask: How is it that we are able to determine it at all? |
55761 | THE THEORY OF FREEDOM I CONSCIOUS HUMAN ACTION Is man free in action and thought, or is he bound by an iron necessity? |
55761 | The fundamental question of Kant''s Theory of Knowledge is, How are synthetic judgments a priori possible? |
55761 | This being so, is any individuality left at all? |
55761 | This last answer does, indeed, presuppose that it is legitimate to group together in the single question,''How many tables?'' |
55761 | This leads us to the question, What is the right method for striking the balance between the credit and the debit columns? |
55761 | Two questions arise:( 1) Where are the Given and the Concept differentiated? |
55761 | VII ARE THERE ANY LIMITS TO KNOWLEDGE? |
55761 | What does it mean to have knowledge of the motives of one''s actions? |
55761 | What does it signify for us to possess knowledge and science? |
55761 | What does willing mean if not to have grounds for doing, or striving to do, this rather than that? |
55761 | What else has he done except perceive what hundreds have failed to see? |
55761 | What follows from these facts? |
55761 | What follows from this fact? |
55761 | What follows? |
55761 | What is it that Kant has achieved? |
55761 | What is it that stimulates the subject? |
55761 | What is it that, in the first instance, I have before me when I confront another person? |
55761 | What is the function( and consequently the purpose) of man? |
55761 | What of the Spiritualistic theory? |
55761 | What precisely is it that is absolute in the affirmation of the Ego? |
55761 | What right have you to declare the world to be complete without thought? |
55761 | What then is a percept? |
55761 | When, next, the percept disappears from my field of vision, what remains? |
55761 | Where is the jumping- board which will launch us from the subjective into the trans- subjective? |
55761 | Which of us can say that he is really free in all his actions? |
55761 | Who does not know the pleasure which is caused by the hope of a remote but intensely desired enjoyment? |
55761 | Why do I not passively let the object impress itself on me? |
55761 | Why is it not simply satisfied with itself and content to accept its own existence? |
55761 | Why should this concept belong any less to the whole plant than leaf and blossom? |
55761 | Why, we ask, does the tree appear to us now at rest, then in motion? |
55761 | Yes, but what is it to do? |
55761 | [ 18] Are there any presuppositions in this question, as formulated by Kant? |
55761 | [ 45] Now let us ask ourselves, How do we come by such a view? |
55761 | [ 50] What does Fichte here mean by the activity of the"intelligence,"when we translate what he has obscurely felt into clear concepts? |
43719 | But what is this new reality,writes Professor Eucken( p. 135),"and this whole to which the course of the movement trends? |
43719 | ***** Why do we refuse to adopt this view, and to discontinue an endeavour the aims of which appear to be unattainable? |
43719 | And can this be otherwise when we only more widely diffuse the inherited possession, but are unable to increase it through our own activity? |
43719 | And have we a place for this assertion of help from a transcendent order when we acknowledge the reality of the independent spiritual life? |
43719 | And whence arises this longing in opposition to an entirely different world, if not from a spirituality implanted within our own being? |
43719 | Are men so full of spiritual impulse that it is only necessary to open up a course for it? |
43719 | But after the far- reaching changes of life and of conviction that we have experienced, can this confidence still be justified? |
43719 | But does not this dependence of the past upon the present deprive history of all independence and of all value? |
43719 | But how can a conception such as that of the_ content of life_ originate in mere nature? |
43719 | But how can this idea be established if a compelling reason is not active within man? |
43719 | But is the whole result of the movement of universal history really only a deception? |
43719 | But is this condition of the matter, spiritually discerned, more than a mere discipline? |
43719 | But to what extent is such a reality recognisable on the basis of experience? |
43719 | But what is humanity from the point of view of Naturalism other than a collection of beings of nature? |
43719 | But what is this new reality and this whole to which the course of the movement trends? |
43719 | But why do we insist upon the ethical; why does so much depend upon its continuance? |
43719 | But why is this so, and why do we renounce all claim to a life in accordance with our own nature? |
43719 | But, in this, independent life and bound life do not become combined; how could that be the case without the loss of all inner unity? |
43719 | Can anything that is aroused within our inner being, and with so much toil finds any form, arise in opposition to this immeasurable world? |
43719 | Can we deny that in the chief departments of the spiritual life the present already clearly shows tendencies to such a degradation? |
43719 | Could all of this spring out of mere error? |
43719 | Could one think of Goethe as living in the Middle Ages, or of Augustine as living in the age of the Enlightenment? |
43719 | Do such things as love, fidelity, honour deserve these names if the thought of selfish advantage is their motive power? |
43719 | Does it not destroy all inner unity of the ages? |
43719 | Does it not involve a contradiction for him to exert his power for something alien to himself? |
43719 | Does it not surrender life completely to the contingency of the changing moments? |
43719 | Does this not show, beyond possibility of refutation, that they do not fill the whole of life? |
43719 | For how could that influence the whole man which does not come from the whole man? |
43719 | For how would one conceive an activity that did not tend ultimately to the good of the agent, and so aid in his self- preservation? |
43719 | Further, is the spiritual life, ultimately, in every sense so powerless as it at first appears? |
43719 | Has it simply brought us back again, from the false paths that we have tried, without according us any kind of positive profit whatever? |
43719 | Have not all the principal revivals of religion, of morality, of education, been simplifications? |
43719 | How can Immanent Idealism satisfy us under such circumstances; how can it assure to our life a firm basis? |
43719 | How can life find a support in this? |
43719 | How can that which is primarily a part of a given world build up a new world? |
43719 | How can the individual matter be elucidated if the whole remain obscure? |
43719 | How could a task of such difficulty find fulfilment, and life a unification and elevation, in superficial and fleeting mood? |
43719 | How could the soul''s innermost experience permeate life as a whole, and ennoble its whole structure without the help of art? |
43719 | How could this unity and activity in the whole be possible, how could it even become an object of desire, if the whole itself did not strive? |
43719 | How does a delusion, that imposes so much toil and trouble upon us, win so much power over us? |
43719 | How is it then that we do not simply reject them? |
43719 | How then can that overcome all doubt which itself calls forth serious doubt? |
43719 | How then can that which takes place in him decide what shall be the destiny of the whole? |
43719 | If a self- conscious life were not present in man, how could a longing for an artistic moulding of life arise in him? |
43719 | If that were so, should we not be compelled to reject the whole of this as phantasy and deception? |
43719 | If the systems which have previously been formed no longer satisfy, why can not mankind evolve others? |
43719 | If the world were no more than this turmoil, if it did not in some way attain to self- consciousness, how could such a deliverance be brought about? |
43719 | Is it to be wondered at if the modern individual regards himself as the centre and undertakes to shape the whole of life from himself? |
43719 | Is the mere evolution and cultivation of sentiment able to give such power and greatness to an unrestrained passivity? |
43719 | May we deny the fact of such original phenomena, because they make our representation of the world less uniform and simple? |
43719 | Now, have we any knowledge of a movement that reaches back in this manner to the elements of life? |
43719 | Or did the idea of humanity, the abolition of slavery, and the commandment to love one''s enemies, for example, arise in some other way? |
43719 | Or is it proved that the existent forms exhaust all possibilities? |
43719 | Shall this chaos display itself and be extolled as an individuality? |
43719 | Should we not sink, in such a case, into a slavery which would enthral man far more oppressively than any command which a tyrant could be capable of? |
43719 | The problem is a vital one; in one form or another, at one time or another, everyone is faced with it: how shall I mould my life? |
43719 | This does indeed come to pass in a few cases; but can we say that it comes to pass generally or predominantly? |
43719 | We see movements of the masses in plenty, but where do we see great spiritual creations arise from the resulting chaos? |
43719 | What could drive him to that change but a desire for truth, and how is such a conception as_ truth_ attainable from nature? |
43719 | What gain, therefore, in respect of the chief matter could a return to the past bring? |
43719 | What is Individualism able to do against such forces, and what does it succeed in achieving towards life''s attainment of independence? |
43719 | What, then, is the real state of the matter? |
43719 | Whence all these, if spiritual life is only delusion? |
43719 | Why did each of the different systems become inadequate, unless it was that life itself rejected as too narrow the standard involved in them? |
43719 | Will any one seriously assert that we find ourselves to- day in a naïve position in relation to sense? |
43719 | Without the liberation which it brings, and its presentation of things in a harmony, how could a whole with definite character be raised? |
43719 | and"Why?" |
43719 | what is it that gives to them a constraining power over us? |
37864 | Again, how can the Relative be conceived as coming into being? 37864 Again, how can the Relative be conceived as coming into being?" |
37864 | From a human point of view,and_ we_, at least, can take no other, what follows? |
37864 | Infinitewhat? |
37864 | Is the First Cause finite or infinite?... 37864 Resist"what? |
37864 | There still remains the final question-- What must we say concerning that which transcends knowledge? 37864 A question instantly arises, and it seems to be one which he is bound to entertain, viz: How comes this idea to be? 37864 Again it is asked:In what respect does a body after impact differ from itself before impact?" |
37864 | Again we press the question, How came these assumptions to suggest themselves? |
37864 | And are Mr. Spencer''s words, in which he teaches exactly the opposite doctrine, true? |
37864 | And how is this? |
37864 | And is this the_ supreme good_? |
37864 | And one is forced to exclaim,"How can he speak of such things when they have nothing to do with the matter in hand? |
37864 | And since that day, has Religion advanced? |
37864 | And the question may be asked, it is believed with great force, If this last were not so, how could the mind take any cognizance of the actuality? |
37864 | And what was the result? |
37864 | And yet is it not also a subjective law; and so was it not originally discovered by introspection and reflection? |
37864 | Are its supposed objects negations? |
37864 | Are they hypostatized as positive? |
37864 | Are they the result of experience? |
37864 | Are they the result of individual experience? |
37864 | Are we to rest wholly in the consciousness of phenomena? |
37864 | As before, we ask, infinite-- what? |
37864 | But do we see that the axiom is under any condition of Time? |
37864 | But how can man be"conscious of the Absolute?" |
37864 | But how? |
37864 | But is the result true? |
37864 | But this"general truth"has_ no_ bearings upon"ultimate religious ideas"; how then can you consider them? |
37864 | But where shall such a base be sought for? |
37864 | But, if this is true, how came these words in the language at all? |
37864 | Can any one, except a Limitist, be induced to believe that it was originally_ constructed_; that a will put it together, and might take it apart? |
37864 | Can it be found within the Universe? |
37864 | Can man be a free moral agent, and be free from the duties inherent therein? |
37864 | Can the Limitists find in language, or can they construct, a positive term which will represent the negation of a sixth sense? |
37864 | Can there be a thing so great as to be without limits? |
37864 | Can we find nothing beyond a want, which shall from its own behest demand that this, and not its opposite, shall be? |
37864 | Can we have any"sensible experience"of God? |
37864 | Can you see--"have sensible experience of"--a soul? |
37864 | Could another Universe arise, upon which would be imposed no conditions of Space and Time? |
37864 | Delightful philosophy, is it not, reader? |
37864 | Did you ever see a person-- a soul? |
37864 | Do you not join with me in pitying him? |
37864 | Does Mr Spencer mean to comprehend the Universe in"thing"and"attribute"? |
37864 | Does such a picture instantly shock, yea, horrify, all our finer sensibilities? |
37864 | Does the soul cry out in agony, her rejection of such a conclusion? |
37864 | Erect some makeshift subterfuge of mental impotence? |
37864 | For do n''t you see? |
37864 | From his misuse of these terms Mr. Spencer is led to speak in an irrelevant manner upon the question,"Is the First Cause finite or infinite?" |
37864 | From this wearisome, Io- like wandering, the soul returns to itself, crying its wailing cry,"Is this true? |
37864 | Grant that the round worlds and all their furniture are_ good_--but why good? |
37864 | Grant that this end, the happiness of sentient beings, is_ good_--but why good? |
37864 | Has greatness anything to do with infinity? |
37864 | Have we a lower sensitive and animal nature? |
37864 | Here we most freely and willingly agree with Mr. Spencer that"the question is, What does consciousness directly testify?" |
37864 | His question,"how came it so?" |
37864 | How came these assumptions to suggest themselves? |
37864 | How can it be, when with all its might the mind revolts from it, as nature does from a vacuum? |
37864 | How can this be explained? |
37864 | How comes it to belong, then, to the rudest aboriginal equally with the most civilized and cultivated? |
37864 | How could he reject the cry of his spiritual nature, and accept the barren contradictions of his lower mind?" |
37864 | How does it arise? |
37864 | How far? |
37864 | How is this? |
37864 | How long? |
37864 | How may"a simple idea"be known? |
37864 | How much? |
37864 | How shall it be done? |
37864 | How shall the finite I am accord_ itself_ to the pure purpose of the infinite I AM? |
37864 | How shall we account for the last generalization, and show this conclusion to be false? |
37864 | How then can the Sense observe it? |
37864 | How, then, can the power, having been sent forth from God, be organized? |
37864 | How, then, could they learn by experience one of the profoundest speculative ideas? |
37864 | If asked"Absolute"what? |
37864 | If from something, how came that something to be? |
37864 | If man can know nothing because of mental imbecility, why suppose that he has a mental faculty at all? |
37864 | If one shall now ask,"How could he send forth the power?" |
37864 | If the two contradictory extremes are themselves incogitable, yet include a cogitable mean, why insist upon the necessity of accepting either extreme? |
37864 | If we can know only these, why speak of those?" |
37864 | In reply to the question,"What is the constitution of these units?" |
37864 | Is his utterance a"principle,"or is it a judgment? |
37864 | Is it that"continuous adjustment"? |
37864 | Is it"created by the slow action of natural causes?" |
37864 | Is man such a being? |
37864 | Is the moral law matter? |
37864 | Is the result of inquiry to exclude utterly from our minds everything but the relative; or must we also believe in something beyond the relative? |
37864 | Is this Science"the agent which has effected the purification of Religion?" |
37864 | Is this all?" |
37864 | Is this philosophy? |
37864 | Is this series of modifications"of consciousness infinite or finite"? |
37864 | Is this vacuum an entity? |
37864 | Now how shall one see these conditions? |
37864 | Now, how is it respecting the question raised by Mr. Spencer? |
37864 | Now, how is it with the Reason? |
37864 | Now, how is it with the moving body and the collision? |
37864 | Now, who has the right to say, either in mathematics or metaphysics, in any philosophy, that_ x_=_ab_? |
37864 | Observe now that a somewhat is unquestionably communicated; and the question is:--What is it? |
37864 | On what ground can the unanimity of the other nine tenths be accounted for? |
37864 | On what immutable Ararat can the soul find her ark, and a sure resting- place? |
37864 | Or are we to believe that these assumptions are mere happenings, without law, and for which no reason can be assigned? |
37864 | Or does the reader prefer to call them religious? |
37864 | Or, to save him, will one say that the defining terms are unknown? |
37864 | Remove now from our presence all material object in Space, and all during event in Time; in a word, remove the Universe, and what will be left? |
37864 | Such for instance are the questions, How is God self- existent, how could he be eternal, how exercise his power, and the like? |
37864 | Take another step and we can answer the question"What is this that thinks?" |
37864 | That the mind is impotent? |
37864 | The only question to be raised is, are they true? |
37864 | The question instantly arises, What is Common Sense? |
37864 | The question,"What are Space and Time?" |
37864 | The questions Where? |
37864 | True that the human mind is an incorrigible falsifier? |
37864 | Upon reading this passage, the question spontaneously arises, What does the writer mean? |
37864 | Was it"created"from nothing or from something? |
37864 | Was its law constructed? |
37864 | We find in language the positive terms, ear and hearing; but can such positive terms be found, which will correspond to the phrase, no sixth sense? |
37864 | We might, it is believed, ask with pertinence, What better, then, is man than the brute? |
37864 | We shall best enter upon this labor by answering the question, What is thinking? |
37864 | Well might President Hopkins say,"The only question is, what is it that consciousness gives? |
37864 | What follows then? |
37864 | What has been communicated? |
37864 | What has happened? |
37864 | What have God and infinity and absoluteness to do with''mammals, birds, reptiles, or fishes''? |
37864 | What is it, then, that we have such experience of? |
37864 | What is moral obligation? |
37864 | What mind? |
37864 | What must be done, then? |
37864 | What relation, then, do these so widely diverse natures bear to each other? |
37864 | What then follows? |
37864 | What then is the truth? |
37864 | What weight have human opinion with reference to its validity? |
37864 | What, then, can the Sense give us? |
37864 | What, then, is a spiritual person? |
37864 | What, then, is the logical conclusion? |
37864 | What, then, is the opposite pole of thought? |
37864 | What, then, is this life for? |
37864 | What, then, is vague-- is undefined? |
37864 | When, then, one of these parts shall be broken, what results? |
37864 | Whence comes the authority of the law? |
37864 | Whence does it arise, or how is it imposed? |
37864 | Where did this_ tertium quid_ come from, when he had already comprehended everything in the two extremes? |
37864 | Where is the Everlasting Rock? |
37864 | Where, for instance, did the notion of self come from? |
37864 | Which does he mean? |
37864 | Who, then, has purified Religion? |
37864 | Why do n''t the Limitists entertain and explain this? |
37864 | Why not enounce, as the fundamental principle of one''s theory, the assertion, All men are idiots? |
37864 | Why? |
37864 | Will Mr. Spencer deny the fact of the idea of personality? |
37864 | Will any one say that it might have been made to make forty- seven; or that at some future time such may be the case? |
37864 | Will any one say that_ perhaps_, we do n''t know but it might have been so made, as to appear to us that the conclusion was Some Z is not X? |
37864 | Will he assert that man has no such notion? |
37864 | Will its conditions cease in its ceasing? |
37864 | Will you allow person, or other definite term to be supplied? |
37864 | With what then will such a being naturally occupy himself? |
37864 | Would any evidence, any argument, strengthen his conviction of the validity of the axioms? |
37864 | You must modify( correct?) |
37864 | _ How came this fundamental law to be?_ and to this the Sense and Understanding return no shadow of answer. |
37864 | _ That the mind can not conceive of anything._ What is his conclusion? |
37864 | _ b._ If it were true, the question obtrudes itself,--How came it there? |
37864 | and who will enforce it, and how will it be enforced? |
37864 | e._ by living with the help of the Holy Spirit, in accordance with the law of the spiritual person--"do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live?" |
37864 | e._, would it not remain if he be destroyed? |
37864 | takes, then, this form: How came immeasurable nothing to be nothing? |
38117 | And how did you get it? |
38117 | And how did your father get it? |
38117 | But how can you be sure of that? |
38117 | Do you happen to know whether the statement is a fact? |
38117 | Do you think you have stated the matter quite fairly? |
38117 | Well,said the other,"do you consider that a subject to be discussed?" |
38117 | Why are they called dynasties? |
38117 | Why not? |
38117 | You have never investigated the matter? |
38117 | A man has invested his savings in mining stock, and can I tell him what to do about it? |
38117 | A man is dying of cancer, and do I think it can be cured by a fast? |
38117 | A man is unable to make his wife happy, and can I tell him what is the matter with women? |
38117 | A man works in a sweatshop, and has only a little time for self- improvement, and will I tell him what books he ought to read? |
38117 | Again, is it stealing for a victim of our system of land monopoly to take a loaf of bread in order to save the life of his starving child? |
38117 | Again, is it stealing to hold land out of use for speculation, while other men are starving and dying for lack of land to labor upon? |
38117 | Also you have to ask, what are the reasons why your trouble manifests itself in this or that particular organ? |
38117 | Am I a creature of blind instincts, jealousies and greeds and hates beyond my own control entirely? |
38117 | Am I a poor, feeble insect, blown about in a storm and smashed? |
38117 | And can anybody doubt that Sally could have fooled a grieving mother, and made that mother think she was talking to the ghost of a long lost child? |
38117 | And can we really know about all these matters, or will we be only guessing? |
38117 | And how do they control it? |
38117 | And now we come with the new instrument of psychic research, to probe the question: What becomes of this consciousness when it disappears? |
38117 | And now, how does their behavior strike us? |
38117 | And now, what about the suppression of love? |
38117 | And suppose there is a scarcity of houses, and thousands of children are dying of tuberculosis in crowded tenement rooms? |
38117 | And what does it cost them? |
38117 | And what if some of these parts happen to be malformed or defective? |
38117 | And what is the practical consequence of this procedure? |
38117 | And what should one say to this honest physician? |
38117 | And what was the cause of these things? |
38117 | And what was the result? |
38117 | And who would decide between them and the great mass of men? |
38117 | And whose propaganda? |
38117 | And will anyone maintain that it is the part of an intelligent man to advocate a less intelligent course than he knows? |
38117 | And yet, when you meet a Communist, what is he? |
38117 | And, may it not very well be that our justice is up to us, in precisely the same way that some of these other things are up to us? |
38117 | Are acquired powers transmitted to posterity, or is the germ plasm unaffected by its environment? |
38117 | Are there any cases in which the time of the appearance can be proven to be subsequent to the time of death? |
38117 | Are there any measures you can take to increase the flow of blood to that organ, and to promote its activity? |
38117 | Are we its masters or its slaves? |
38117 | At once to every owner comes one single thought-- are you going to buy this stock, or are you going to confiscate it? |
38117 | At the top of society, or at the bottom? |
38117 | But about the activities of love we feel differently; and why is this? |
38117 | But are there any phantasms of the dead? |
38117 | But does she positively know that when she was a child, she never happened to be in the room with someone who was reading old English aloud? |
38117 | But how can I explain all this to the poor man? |
38117 | But now, suppose you multiply two feet by two feet by two feet by two feet, what does that represent? |
38117 | But some gust of passion seizes you, and you waste your substance, you wreck your life; then you wonder,"Who set that trap and baited it? |
38117 | But stop a moment, why do you close the door? |
38117 | But stop and consider, is not this a relic of old days? |
38117 | But we have to consider this question: Is the program of not having to pay anything a reality, or is it only a dream? |
38117 | But who are you that claim to know the last thing about a human soul? |
38117 | But, you say, if we die altogether when we finish this earthly life, what becomes of moral responsibility and the punishment of sins? |
38117 | CHAPTER LXVI CONFISCATION OR COMPENSATION( Shall the workers buy out the capitalists? |
38117 | CONFISCATION OR COMPENSATION 179 Shall the workers buy out the capitalists? |
38117 | Can anybody doubt that Sally could and would play the part of any person she had ever known, or of any historic character she had ever read about? |
38117 | Can anyone imagine how a thought can turn into a steam shovel, or a steam shovel into a thought? |
38117 | Can it be that God is in process of becoming, that there is no God until he has become, in us and through us? |
38117 | Can it ever become the sex arrangement of any society? |
38117 | Can they afford to do it, and what will be the price? |
38117 | Can they afford to do it, and what will be the price?) |
38117 | Can we by any possibility do this? |
38117 | Can we prove that it is still in existence, and is able by any method to communicate with us? |
38117 | Can we trust ourselves to think about them, or shall we be safer if we believe what we are told? |
38117 | Could there ever be such a thing? |
38117 | Do species change by the gradual elimination of the unfit, or do they change by sudden leaps, the"mutation"theory of de Vries? |
38117 | Do we praise their industry, and fidelity to their obligations? |
38117 | Do we want to buy them, in order to avoid the wastes of civil war and insurrection? |
38117 | Do we want to socialize our railroads, our coal mines, our telegraphs and telephones? |
38117 | Do you use that socially, or do you use it privately? |
38117 | Does the baby cry all the time? |
38117 | Has there ever been in the world any revelation, outside of or above human reason? |
38117 | Have we any grounds, other than those of psychic research, for thinking that it is true, or that it may be true, or that it ought to be true? |
38117 | He is saying now,"You believe that everything is to be determined by human reason? |
38117 | Here was a new form of state set up in society, a workers''state, and what attitude should the Anarchists take toward that? |
38117 | How are we going to do it? |
38117 | How came it that a mind so acute as Huxley''s went so far astray on the question of the evolution of morality? |
38117 | How can any thinking person deny that John has thus committed an act of treason to Mary? |
38117 | How can human beings act, how can they deal with one another, if there are no laws, no permanent moral codes?" |
38117 | How could any save a divinely revealed religion have foreseen the present movement to establish the Sabbath by law? |
38117 | How do you know it? |
38117 | How is it that the rich are becoming richer? |
38117 | How is their diet problem solved? |
38117 | How shall anybody say that nature has forever lost the power of rebuilding a bit of nervous tissue? |
38117 | How shall one judge whether the new rà © gime is better or worse? |
38117 | How shall we complete our mastery of it? |
38117 | How shall we determine what is to be the intellectual content of these material books? |
38117 | How shall we protect this precious instrument? |
38117 | How shall you do this, and at the same time get a continual supply of fresh air? |
38117 | How should we effect the change, and how should we run our industry after it was done? |
38117 | I am called in by these fat, over- fed rich people in their leisure class hotels, and what am I to say to them? |
38117 | I can hear the very tones of his voice as he put the great unanswerable question:"What are you going to do about the problem of jealousy?" |
38117 | I pause and consider: Where shall I begin? |
38117 | If the cause of our sex disorders is not physiological, what is it? |
38117 | If they grow differently, must they not sometimes lose the power to make each other happy in the marital bonds? |
38117 | In the first place, what is love-- young love, passionate love, the love of those who"fall in"? |
38117 | In what ways have the reasoned and deliberate purposes of man revised and even supplanted the processes of nature? |
38117 | Is it honest material? |
38117 | Is it not a fact that throughout nature a superfluity of any kind of energy or product may be a source of happiness, rather than of distress? |
38117 | Is it not obvious that the only possible solution of such problems lies in divorce? |
38117 | Is it stealing to seize upon land, and kill the occupants of it, and take the land for your own, and hand it down to your children forever? |
38117 | Is it threatened with convulsions or with blood poisoning? |
38117 | Is its digestion defective? |
38117 | Is pork a wholesome article of food or is it not? |
38117 | Is there any such natural and irremovable inferiority in human beings? |
38117 | Is there some weakness or defect there, and can the defect be remedied, or can your habits be changed so as to reduce the strain on that organ? |
38117 | It is a good deal like the old question, Which comes first, the hen or the egg? |
38117 | It is not perfect, from the point of view of you or me; but then, I ask, what else is there in the world that is perfect from that point of view? |
38117 | Just what is the process of the fast cure? |
38117 | Let us first consider the question, just what are the true and proper implications of monogamous love? |
38117 | Let us see how she made us; what were the stages on the way to man? |
38117 | Next, what about disease? |
38117 | Next, what are the effects of our new arrangements upon political corruption and graft? |
38117 | Next, what are the stages between Socialism and Syndicalism? |
38117 | Next, what is the status of crime? |
38117 | Of course, society wo n''t put it to you in that complicated formula; it will simply ask,"Have you got the price?" |
38117 | One of the first things people ask is,"Will there be money in the new society, or how will labor be rewarded and goods paid for?" |
38117 | Or do I make the storm, and can I in any part control it?" |
38117 | Or will you choose the universe of the atom, the infinity of the material world followed the other way, so to speak? |
38117 | Or will you choose the universe of the subconscious, our racial past locked up in the secret chambers of our mind? |
38117 | Or will you choose the universe of the superconscious, the infinity of genius manifested in the arts? |
38117 | Or would you answer,"Yes, of course, my boy; that is what I had in mind when I made you give up the girl you loved"? |
38117 | Said the stranger,"You own this land?" |
38117 | Shall we be punished if we think wrong, and how shall we be punished? |
38117 | Shall we be rewarded if we think right, and will the pay be worth the trouble? |
38117 | Shall we, therefore, join the pessimists and say that history is a blind struggle for useless power, and that the notion of progress is a delusion? |
38117 | Should one tell him to go and be a physician to the poor? |
38117 | Someone wrote me the other day, asking,"When is the best time to acquire knowledge?" |
38117 | Such is the problem of the mother of a son; and now, what about the mother of a daughter? |
38117 | Suppose I should ask you to name the influence that is having most to do with shaping the thoughts of young America-- what would you answer? |
38117 | Suppose that tomorrow you were to abolish all dividends and profits, and divide the money up among the wage workers, how much would each one get? |
38117 | Suppose we buy out the stockholders of United States Steel, and issue to them government bonds, what have we accomplished? |
38117 | That double money the bankers own; the only question now to be decided is, who is to own the double money that will be created tomorrow? |
38117 | The Brass Check A Study of American Journalism Who owns the press and why? |
38117 | The mind of the body is in rebellion against the mind-- shall we say of reason, or shall we say of society? |
38117 | The next thing that everybody wants to know is,"Shall we all be paid the same wages?" |
38117 | The only question is, which one will you choose? |
38117 | The religious people decide that sexual indulgence is wrong, and they impose a penalty-- and what is that penalty? |
38117 | Then come the associations of the bankers and merchants and real estate speculators, crying in outraged horror,"What? |
38117 | Then, second, we have to ask, Is there any other supposition which will explain the facts, and which is easier to believe than the spirit theory? |
38117 | There is an oldtime poem, which perhaps was in your school readers,"Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" |
38117 | These are Federal Reserve notes, and there are about three billions of them; how do they come to be? |
38117 | They have their sex impulses, and will follow them, and the only question is, shall they follow them wisely or unwisely? |
38117 | To what extent can civilized man rely upon his instincts to keep him in perfect health? |
38117 | Under these conditions the average man wishes to work, and the only question remaining is, how shall he work? |
38117 | We have a machine capable of producing many times more than we can consume; shall we still go on building that machine? |
38117 | What affair is it of any other person if I choose to get a divorce and marry a new wife once a month? |
38117 | What am I anyhow? |
38117 | What are my duties to myself, and what are my duties to the world about me? |
38117 | What are the consequences of these diseases? |
38117 | What are the forces which have so far prevented it from prevailing, and how can these forces be counteracted? |
38117 | What are the laws of the conduct of the mind? |
38117 | What are the probabilities of its being true? |
38117 | What are the scientific and rational reasons for monogamy? |
38117 | What are the standards by which we may know excellence in life, and distinguish it from failure and waste and blunder in life? |
38117 | What are we to say to these different programs? |
38117 | What avails it if we allow venereal disease to spread, so that a large percentage of the babies are deformed and miserable? |
38117 | What avails it if we send them to school hungry, as we do twenty- two per cent of the public school children of New York City? |
38117 | What causes the uric acid? |
38117 | What change would be necessary to the socializing of this concern? |
38117 | What could smack more of magic and fraud than crystal- gazing? |
38117 | What do I mean, what am I here for?" |
38117 | What do reason and moral sense have to tell us about diet? |
38117 | What does it mean, and what have we to do with it? |
38117 | What does it owe us, and what do we owe to it? |
38117 | What if you have an appendix that has been twisted and malformed from birth, and is a center of infection so long as it remains in the body? |
38117 | What if your eyes do not focus properly, and you are continually wearing out the optic nerve, thus giving yourself headaches and neurasthenia? |
38117 | What interest has society in the restriction of divorce? |
38117 | What is Matter? |
38117 | What is faith? |
38117 | What is it that we know about life? |
38117 | What is it that we want to prove? |
38117 | What is life, and how does it come to be? |
38117 | What is love, and what ought it to be? |
38117 | What is money? |
38117 | What is sport? |
38117 | What is the use of talking about health to a man who has no moral purpose? |
38117 | What is this"matter"that you are so sure of? |
38117 | What is to be done about this cancer? |
38117 | What is, in its essence, the process of evolution from the lower to the higher forms of mental life? |
38117 | What kind of a universe would that be? |
38117 | What kind of life are we going to make? |
38117 | What possible right have you to assert that you are immune against every enemy which can attack your blood- stream?" |
38117 | What precisely is this political revolution? |
38117 | What shall we say to the wicked man to make him be good, if we can not reward him with a heaven and frighten him with a hell? |
38117 | What was the literary quality of it? |
38117 | What was the moral quality of it? |
38117 | What would be the consequences of its not being true? |
38117 | What would be the effect upon mankind if the alleged revelation were to be universally adopted and applied? |
38117 | What would be the opinion of, let us say, a young turnip on the subject of Mr. Frederic Harrison''s thesis? |
38117 | What would be the process by which the people of London or Calcutta would decide upon that revelation? |
38117 | What would my pacifist friend do if he saw a maniac attacking his children with a hatchet? |
38117 | What would this authority be? |
38117 | What, for example, has been the effect upon vanity? |
38117 | What, in the most elemental form, is sex? |
38117 | What, precisely, is the difference between nature and man? |
38117 | What, so to speak, are the morals of the doctrine of immortality? |
38117 | Whatever that difference is, remember, it is paid by the workers; and might that sum not just as well have been used to buy out the owners? |
38117 | When I was in college the professor would propound the old question:"Would you rather be a happy pig or an unhappy philosopher?" |
38117 | When you read your daily paper, are you reading facts or propaganda? |
38117 | Where do I come from, and what is going to become of me? |
38117 | Who controls credit today? |
38117 | Who does not know the man who masters life and becomes a vital force, while his wife remains dull and empty? |
38117 | Who furnishes the raw material for your thoughts about life? |
38117 | Who has not told his dreams and laughed over them? |
38117 | Who has not waked up and been astounded at the variety and reality of a dream? |
38117 | Who is the owner? |
38117 | Who will read this Book of Life? |
38117 | Why could there not be a doctor who would look you over thoroughly, and tell you everything that was wrong with you, and how to set it right? |
38117 | Why do women wear tight shoes? |
38117 | Why else does he write his learned books in defense of the materialist philosophy? |
38117 | Why is it so hard, and do we have to stand its hardness? |
38117 | Why should he not do so? |
38117 | Why should our justice be any more perfect than, for example, our health or our thinking or our climate or our government? |
38117 | Why should we bother with"labor checks,"when we have a banking and clearing- house system, understood by everyone but the illiterate? |
38117 | Will anybody maintain that this can be done without stopping production in those factories for a single day? |
38117 | Will that convince the grocer? |
38117 | Will you choose the universe of outer space, the material world of infinity? |
38117 | With the city or the country? |
38117 | With the old or the young? |
38117 | Would he be any happier there? |
38117 | Would you abolish the competition of art, the effort of men to produce work more beautiful and inspiring than has ever been known before? |
38117 | Would you abolish the effort of scientists to overthrow theories which have hitherto been accepted? |
38117 | Would you abolish, for example, the competition of love, the right of a man to win the girl he wants? |
38117 | Would you think that was the most absurd thing you had ever heard in all your born days? |
38117 | Yesterday I met a young mother; and of what avail is all the pessimism of poets against the pride of a young mother? |
38117 | You ask, if God made Satan, and knew what Satan was going to do, is it not the same as if God did it himself? |
38117 | You meet a Capitalist, and what do you find? |
38117 | You own a dozen automobiles, and do you use them all privately? |
38117 | You propose to abolish the income tax and the inheritance tax, and put all the costs of government on the poor man''s lot?" |
38117 | You propose to let the rich man''s stocks and bonds go free? |
38117 | You propose to put no tax on his cash in the vaults and on his wife''s jewels? |
38117 | You reject all faith?" |
12264 | A man or a woman? |
12264 | Almost precipitous for Northamptonshire, eh? |
12264 | And how many people would read such a paper? |
12264 | And then, too, can we love any one who knows us perfectly, through and through? 12264 At the worst, this is a harmless literary blunder, a foolish bit of hero- worship?" |
12264 | But I do n''t say it,said I:"Who dies if Father Payne live?" |
12264 | But I go back to my point,said Lestrange:"does not a great war like that send people to their knees in faith?" |
12264 | But a conscious touch with God? |
12264 | But am I justified in not sharing that belief? |
12264 | But apart from definite moral disease,said Vincent,"is n''t it a good thing to compel people, if possible, into a certain sort of habit? |
12264 | But are n''t we a great deal better than our proverbs? |
12264 | But are n''t we, behind all that,said Barthrop,"an intensely sentimental nation?" |
12264 | But are n''t you making too much out of it? |
12264 | But are there no exceptions? |
12264 | But are you speaking of a nation which conquers or a nation which is defeated? |
12264 | But are you sure about this? |
12264 | But can people_ make_ themselves active and hopeful? |
12264 | But do you apply that to everything,I said,"old friendships, old affections, old memories? |
12264 | But do you mean that you should pursue good talk? |
12264 | But do you really think your poverty hurt you? |
12264 | But does it not mean that you have made a mistake somehow,said Vincent,"if you have made a friend, and then cease to care about him?" |
12264 | But does n''t all that encourage people to be prophets? |
12264 | But does n''t everyone want discipline of some kind? |
12264 | But does n''t heredity come in there? |
12264 | But does not a war,said Lestrange,"clear the air, and take people away from petty aims and trivial squabbles into a sterner and larger atmosphere?" |
12264 | But does not your principle about the right to risk one''s life hold good here too? |
12264 | But does that apply to things like horse- racing or golf? |
12264 | But everyone must do their work in their own way? |
12264 | But how are you going to begin to sort your material? |
12264 | But how do you fit that into your theories of life at all? |
12264 | But how does that work out in practice? |
12264 | But how is one ever to act at all,said Vincent,"if one is always to be feeling that a principle may turn out to be nonsense after all?" |
12264 | But how would you set about discovering which was which? |
12264 | But if I want to renounce it,I said,"why should n''t I?" |
12264 | But if a nation is defeated,said Father Payne,"are they the better for the common depression of_ not_ having been equal to the emergency?" |
12264 | But if all this is so,I said,"why do n''t we_ know_ that we shall live again? |
12264 | But if we are to go on living,I said,"are we to forget all the love and interest and delight of life? |
12264 | But if you are dealing with a real egotist,said Vincent,"what are you to do then?" |
12264 | But if you find yourself grubby, nasty, suspicious, irritable, is n''t it a good thing to rub it in sometimes? |
12264 | But if you have n''t got this sense of beauty,said Vincent,"how are you to get it?" |
12264 | But if you_ do n''t_ believe that,said Lestrange,"are you justified in entering upon intimate relations at all?" |
12264 | But in one sense it is n''t possible to be too good? |
12264 | But intercession,I said,"is there nothing in the idea that you can pray for those who can not or will not pray for themselves?" |
12264 | But is n''t all that rather intellectual? |
12264 | But is n''t it a way of changing yourself by simply trying to get your ideals clear? |
12264 | But is n''t it apt to be very tiresome,said I,"if the writer is always obtruding himself?" |
12264 | But is n''t it partly that people are unduly reticent about money? |
12264 | But is n''t it possible to be too obvious? |
12264 | But is n''t it rather a pity? |
12264 | But is n''t it right to show up mean and dishonest people, to turn the light of publicity upon cruel and detestable things? |
12264 | But is n''t it the finer kind of people,said Kaye,"who make the mistake?" |
12264 | But is n''t it worse still,said Vincent,"to see so many sides to a question that you ca n''t take a definite part?" |
12264 | But is n''t it worth while to see a great poet''s inferior jottings, and to grasp how he worked? |
12264 | But is n''t loyalty a fine quality? |
12264 | But is n''t that rather sentimental? |
12264 | But is n''t that what you call sentimental? |
12264 | But is n''t there a danger in all this? |
12264 | But is n''t there something,said Barthrop,"in Dr. Johnson''s dictum, that a meal was good enough to eat, but not good enough to ask a man to? |
12264 | But is n''t your whole idea of talk rather strenuous-- a little artificial? |
12264 | But may n''t you desire fame? |
12264 | But may the victim not have a faith in God through and in spite of a disease or a vice? |
12264 | But must there not be in every real friendship a_ purpose_ of continuance? |
12264 | But need that be a proof of progress? |
12264 | But one can practise oneself in doing without things? |
12264 | But ought n''t one to avoid all that sort of nonsense? |
12264 | But surely honour means something quite definite? |
12264 | But surely people pursue fame as much as ever? |
12264 | But surely we may pity people? |
12264 | But surely,said Rose,"there are some marriages which are obviously bad for all concerned-- real incompatibilities? |
12264 | But that was not all? |
12264 | But the charming Phyllis? |
12264 | But the charming people of whom you spoke,I said--"isn''t the whole thing often too evanescent to be recorded?" |
12264 | But there are some good biographies? |
12264 | But to go back to our sense of possession,I said,"is that really much more than a matter of climate? |
12264 | But what about St. Paul''s words,said Lestrange,"''Honour all men: love the brotherhood''?" |
12264 | But what about the religious side of it all? |
12264 | But what about the splendid self- sacrifice it all evokes? |
12264 | But what are the difficulties you spoke of? |
12264 | But what are you to do,said Vincent,"about people? |
12264 | But what can be done about it all? |
12264 | But what did it all come to? |
12264 | But what is an artist to do,I said,"who is simply haunted by the desire to make something beautiful?" |
12264 | But what is the word for the feeling which one has when one reads a really splendid book, let us say, or hears a perfect piece of music? |
12264 | But what is to be done when people are tied up by relationships, and ca n''t get away? |
12264 | But what is to tell us where to draw the line,said Vincent,"and when to disregard the precept?" |
12264 | But what should a man_ do_? |
12264 | But what would you do? |
12264 | But which is the best principle? |
12264 | But who are these people, after all? |
12264 | But who is to judge if it_ is_ immaterial? |
12264 | But why do you write it, if you are so dissatisfied with it? |
12264 | But why does n''t it improve? |
12264 | But why should n''t it be done? |
12264 | But why''of course''? |
12264 | But why, if that is so,said I,"do we feel a sense of unity with some people, and not at all with others? |
12264 | But you did n''t like the prospect of going? |
12264 | But you do n''t hate people, Father? |
12264 | But you often tell us to be serious, to be deadly earnest, about our work? |
12264 | But you sometimes bring yourself to form, and even express, an opinion? |
12264 | But,I said,"do you mean that Newman calculated all his effects?" |
12264 | But,I said,"surely the people who make claims for affection are very often most beloved, even when they are unjust, inconsiderate, ill- tempered?" |
12264 | But,I said,"the passion of lovers-- isn''t that all based on the worship of something infinitely superior to oneself?" |
12264 | But,persisted Rose,"is n''t that simply a possible proof of the general declension of force?" |
12264 | But,said I,"do n''t many quite poor people live happily and contentedly and kindly with minute incomes?" |
12264 | Come, what shall we do to- day? |
12264 | Did he say that? |
12264 | Did he want to try a similar experiment? |
12264 | Did you ever see such a bit of pure force? |
12264 | Do we belong to your party, sir, or do you belong to ours? |
12264 | Do we know what anything_ means_? 12264 Do you ever garden?" |
12264 | Do you like it? |
12264 | Do you remember Rose''s song about him? |
12264 | Do you remember,said Barthrop,"the lines in Tennyson''s Guinevere, which sum up the knightly attributes? |
12264 | Do you think one ought to try to catch a sight of great men who are contemporaries? |
12264 | Do you wish us to be married? |
12264 | Does he expect us to go? |
12264 | Does he want me to go, or does he not? |
12264 | Does he want you to pay some more? |
12264 | Does that mean anything in particular? |
12264 | Father Payne, do n''t you understand? 12264 He was never married, I suppose?" |
12264 | How am I to tell? |
12264 | How are you going to separate people''s qualities and attributes from themselves? 12264 How do you know? |
12264 | How ought one to care for people? |
12264 | How would you mend it? |
12264 | How_ can_ people talk through that? 12264 I give up,"said Rose:"can nothing be logical?" |
12264 | I quite agree,said Father Payne,"but why mix up honour with it at all? |
12264 | I suppose he is about fifty- eight or so? 12264 I suppose we come in somewhere?" |
12264 | I, dear man? |
12264 | Is he letting me down with a compliment? |
12264 | Is it not possible to believe,I said,"that all experience may be good for us, however harsh it seems?" |
12264 | Is n''t he magnificent? |
12264 | Is n''t it a question of imagination? |
12264 | Is n''t it a sense of security? |
12264 | Is n''t it better to go on with the delusion that you are just as good as ever-- like Wordsworth and Browning? |
12264 | Is n''t that a rare thing? |
12264 | Is n''t that just one of the large generalisations,he said,"which you are always telling us to beware of?" |
12264 | Is n''t that just the most awful problem of all, the listlessness which falls on many of us, as the limitations draw round and the net encloses us? |
12264 | Is n''t that rather immoral? |
12264 | Is n''t that what is called hedonism? |
12264 | Is not that the idea which Christianity aims at? |
12264 | It is possible-- isn''t it? |
12264 | Lie still, ca n''t you? |
12264 | Like it? |
12264 | Look at the gray bloom on those blades,he said;"is n''t that perfect? |
12264 | May I ask you something? |
12264 | May it not only mean a decrease of personal courage, and a greater sensitiveness to pain? |
12264 | May n''t we have the benefit of some of it? |
12264 | May n''t you want a friend to improve? 12264 Now what do you say,"said Vincent,"to us two trying to go there for a bit? |
12264 | Now what does he say to you? |
12264 | Old debts with compound interest? |
12264 | People give up their comfort, their careers, they go to face the last risk-- is that nothing? |
12264 | Perhaps I ought not to say that? |
12264 | Perhaps,said Kaye;"but does n''t that make it more wasteful still? |
12264 | So, you think of becoming one of the gentlemen, sir? |
12264 | Surely that is all right, Father Payne? |
12264 | That is a reasonable general scheme,said Barthrop,"but what about special aptitudes?" |
12264 | That is the exclusive feeling then? |
12264 | The thing can surely be much simpler than that? |
12264 | Then it comes to this,I said,"that affection is a mutual recognition of beauty and a sense of equality?" |
12264 | Then it comes to this,said Vincent drily,"that you ca n''t be inclusive, and that you ought not to be exclusive?" |
12264 | Then it does not matter,said Father Payne,"whether they are united by the complacency of conquest or by the desire for revenge?" |
12264 | Then prayer, you think,I said,"is to you just one of the natural processes of life?" |
12264 | Then reason is the ultimate guide? |
12264 | Then what_ are_ you to do? |
12264 | Then who_ is_ worth seeing? |
12264 | Then why was he so elaborately tortured first? |
12264 | Then with you prayer is n''t a process of asking? |
12264 | There''s Boswell''s Johnson-- why does that stand almost alone? |
12264 | Ultimately? |
12264 | Well, then,he said,"where''s the vocation in all this? |
12264 | Well, then,said Lestrange,"what is the ultimate thing?" |
12264 | Well, what did you think of our guest? |
12264 | What about Pharisees? |
12264 | What about my friend Pearce, the schoolmaster? |
12264 | What are you doing just now? |
12264 | What are you doing? |
12264 | What are you going to do with them? |
12264 | What can I say that will be worthy of myself? |
12264 | What did you say? |
12264 | What do you believe, then? |
12264 | What do you mean? |
12264 | What do you think yourself? |
12264 | What do you_ do_, then? |
12264 | What does he_ do_ mostly? |
12264 | What exactly do you mean by''ca n''t do''? |
12264 | What is his line exactly? |
12264 | What is the cad, then? |
12264 | What is there to say? |
12264 | What is this? |
12264 | What sort of things do you mean? |
12264 | What was it all about? |
12264 | What was that? |
12264 | What were they about? |
12264 | What were you doing? |
12264 | What will you really do? |
12264 | Who on earth is Gladwin? |
12264 | Whom do you mean, then? |
12264 | Whose life was it? |
12264 | Why did n''t we make up to her? |
12264 | Why do n''t you travel more, then? |
12264 | Why mix yourself up with it at all? |
12264 | Why not? |
12264 | Why on earth did you go on reading it? |
12264 | Why on earth do you say that? |
12264 | Why should you care to hear about all this? 12264 Why wo n''t he say such things to me?" |
12264 | Why, Father,I said boldly,"if you feel like that, why do n''t you put in for her yourself? |
12264 | Why, what does loyalty mean in such a connection? 12264 Why? |
12264 | Why? |
12264 | Why? |
12264 | Will you go and see that they have brought your things down? 12264 Would you like a fire?" |
12264 | Yes, but in a school,said Vincent,"would not the boys themselves resent it, if they were punished differently for the same offence?" |
12264 | Yes, but what_ are_ you, after all? |
12264 | Yes, that is all right,said Father Payne,"but how is it when there are two''oughts,''as there often are? |
12264 | Yes, there is a good deal in that,said Father Payne,"but ought not the trained critics to withstand it?" |
12264 | Yes, what was it? |
12264 | Yes, who is it, Vincent? |
12264 | Yes,said Father Payne;"heredity is just one of the evil devices-- but do n''t you see the stupidity of it? |
12264 | You mean it is something mystical-- almost hypnotic? |
12264 | You mean that it was mostly humbug? |
12264 | You mean that the difference between pride and vanity lies there? |
12264 | You see the idea? |
12264 | You thought all that? |
12264 | You will let us know how all goes? |
12264 | ''But I thought you did n''t know them?'' |
12264 | ''I say to him,''says Keats,''why not the pen sometimes first?'' |
12264 | ''Is it that you feel ill?'' |
12264 | ''Who put the evil there?'' |
12264 | After all, what is it that we want with each other?--what do we expect to get from each other? |
12264 | And if so, why? |
12264 | And odder still, why do I like the look of it?" |
12264 | And then I ask myself,''Ought I, as a normal human being, to be as one- sided, as submissive, as trivial, as sentimental as this?'' |
12264 | And then, what does caring about people mean? |
12264 | And what do you make of the old proverb,''All is fair in love and war''? |
12264 | Anything else, sir? |
12264 | Are not the nations who live in warmer climates less attached to material things simply because they are less important?" |
12264 | Are you sure that you are not only expressing the feeling of relief in the community at having a danger over? |
12264 | Are you to go on saying you admire it, or to pretend to yourself that you admire it? |
12264 | Are you to throw him over?" |
12264 | Bland might have a walk and discuss the signs of the times?" |
12264 | But I expect it is only your idea of modesty?" |
12264 | But I only wanted to know if you would come for a stroll? |
12264 | But are you serious? |
12264 | But do any of you men realise what an absolutely enchanting person he is? |
12264 | But for whose delight?" |
12264 | But the little people, who simply end further back than they began, what is to be done for them?" |
12264 | But what does the simple botanist-- that''s me-- say? |
12264 | But what if you have made a friend, and then ceased to care for him, and he goes on caring for you? |
12264 | Ca n''t one feel that nature is half- tender, half- indifferent to our broken designs?" |
12264 | Can I really be like that?''" |
12264 | Can anyone define it?" |
12264 | Can anyone say what practical advice he could have given to either Carlyle or to Mrs. Carlyle, which would have improved that witches''cauldron? |
12264 | Can one indeed love the Unknown? |
12264 | Can we really ever gain an idea, or can we only recognise our own ideas?" |
12264 | Canst work i''the earth so fast? |
12264 | Cleansing fires? |
12264 | Did Newman, do you suppose, not realise that he had done that? |
12264 | Did you ever see anything so enchanting as that aconite? |
12264 | Do n''t you feel yourself as if you were good for centuries of living?" |
12264 | Do n''t you know how the mildest people are often disposed to make out that they were reckless and daring scapegraces at school? |
12264 | Do n''t you know the curious delight of seeing a house once inhabited by anyone whom one has much admired and loved? |
12264 | Do n''t you know the misery of being jerked back, time after time, by an unpleasant thought? |
12264 | Do n''t you remember what Mr. Feeblemind says? |
12264 | Do n''t you see that not yielding to a bad impulse is fighting? |
12264 | Do not you see in them something calm, continuous, active-- happy, in fact-- at work; often tripped up and imprisoned, and thwarted-- but moving on?" |
12264 | Do we really want the company of any one for ever and ever? |
12264 | Do we want to agree or to disagree? |
12264 | Do we want to hear about other people''s experiences, or do we simply want to tell our own? |
12264 | Do you grasp all that?" |
12264 | Do you mind the light? |
12264 | Do you remember that epithet of Keats, about the''cool- rooted''flowers? |
12264 | Do you remember that stone we broke the other day? |
12264 | Do you remember the story of Hans Andersen, when he went to see the King of Denmark? |
12264 | Do you remember the subject proposed in a school debating society,''That too much athletics is worthy of our admiration''? |
12264 | Do you remember what Lamb said of Barry Cornwall''s wen on the nape of his neck? |
12264 | Do you say any prayers?" |
12264 | Do you suppose I''m going to sit here, with all you fellows enjoying yourselves, and not have my bit of fun? |
12264 | Does anyone''s mind really dwell on such things and ponder them? |
12264 | Does not the newspaper- convention misrepresent us as much as the book- convention misrepresents us? |
12264 | Does that sound profane to you?" |
12264 | Does your idea of loyalty apply also to books, Lestrange, or to music?" |
12264 | Even the toughest old veteran soldier-- how many hours of his life has he spent actually under fire? |
12264 | Father Payne always said that we must not depend helplessly upon persons or institutions, but must find our own real life and live it-- you remember?" |
12264 | Father Payne beamed upon me with an indulgent air, and I said:"May I ask what you were doing?" |
12264 | Father Payne gave a chuckle, and Lestrange looked pained,"Ought n''t one to have a code of honour?" |
12264 | Father Payne uttered a short, loud laugh at this, and said:"Is there any chance of meeting your aunt?" |
12264 | Have you any more stories of the same sort about her?" |
12264 | Have you ever done any essay work?" |
12264 | Have you never noticed how all converts personify their new Church in feminine terms? |
12264 | He said suddenly,"Do you know one of the advantages of growing old? |
12264 | He stopped in the middle of the copse, and said:"Did you ever see anything so perfectly lovely as this place? |
12264 | He was silent for a minute, and then he said:"Do you believe in God?" |
12264 | He would stop to whistle to a caged bird:"You like your little prison, do n''t you, sweet?" |
12264 | Here, you do n''t know which your room is, I suppose?" |
12264 | How can I put it? |
12264 | How do we know exactly how much time a man ought to allot to sleep, to work, to leisure? |
12264 | How do you affect my solitude, or I yours? |
12264 | How do you know that God made the nasty things? |
12264 | How does that strike you?" |
12264 | How long has he seemed to be ill, by the way?" |
12264 | How otherwise should one learn to hate oneself? |
12264 | How would the world get on without it?" |
12264 | I could not tell what it was, but Father Payne knew it, might show it me? |
12264 | I do n''t mean troubled about anything in particular-- there''s nothing to be troubled about-- but simply sad, in a causeless, listless way?" |
12264 | I do n''t wonder the author felt it necessary to remind you-- or perhaps he was reminding himself? |
12264 | I mean, may it not be right to interpose it, but yet not right to follow it? |
12264 | I recognise the fascination of it as much as anyone can-- but is n''t it, as you said about travelling, a kind of intoxication? |
12264 | I said--"to get a namby- pamby way of writing-- what a reviewer calls painfully kind?" |
12264 | I would rather they would not sell it-- but bless me, what does it matter? |
12264 | If I had the great manner, I should say,"Why, Tommy, is that you?" |
12264 | If a man had said to Ruskin or Carlyle,''Why do you write all these books?'' |
12264 | If he has some patent and obvious fault, I mean?" |
12264 | If it comes to that, is n''t it quite as good a discipline for punctual people to learn to wait without impatience for the unpunctual? |
12264 | If we are creatures of a day, why should we be interested? |
12264 | If you hate nobody, what reason is there for trying to improve? |
12264 | Is he one, by the way?" |
12264 | Is it a pose to behave amiably when you are tired or cross?" |
12264 | Is it more than the sense of gratitude of a man who has not suffered unbearably, to the people who_ have_ died and suffered? |
12264 | Is it not of the essence of love to be blind? |
12264 | Is it possible for us to feel that we are worthy of the love of anyone who really knows us? |
12264 | Is it to be passion, or admiration, or reverence, or fidelity, or pity? |
12264 | Is n''t it a good impulse to put your best before a guest?" |
12264 | Is n''t it a selfish thing, and does n''t it do the very thing which you often speak against-- blind us to other experience, that is?" |
12264 | Is n''t it more because we recognise our own feelings than because we make acquaintance with unfamiliar feelings? |
12264 | Is n''t it rather-- well,--weak?" |
12264 | Is n''t that possible? |
12264 | Is that held to be for ever binding on a nation till it is formally repealed? |
12264 | Is the point of it that we want similarity or difference? |
12264 | It comes to this? |
12264 | It may not be as good as you hoped-- nothing ever is-- but surely it is better than you expected?" |
12264 | It seems to say,''Why should I hang here, covered with soot, with this mob of people jostling along below, in all this noise and dirt?'' |
12264 | It would be easy to love God if He were like that-- yet who dares to say it or to teach it? |
12264 | It would give me a reason for accepting what I must confess would be a humiliation,''Is n''t that infernal? |
12264 | It''s no use talking about the laws of matter-- why are the laws of matter what they are, and not different? |
12264 | No-- I was n''t working, was I? |
12264 | No? |
12264 | No? |
12264 | Now, have you noticed anything?" |
12264 | Now, if I ask you, who are a bit of a poet, what those leaves are, what do you say? |
12264 | Of course it''s little enough that we can do: but think of old Mrs. Chetwynd again-- what has she to give? |
12264 | Of course war has a great and instinctive prestige about it; are we not misled by that into accepting it as an inevitable business?" |
12264 | People who ca n''t understand each other or their children-- children who ca n''t understand their parents? |
12264 | Perhaps you do n''t think there''s much solitude about our life? |
12264 | Personally, I am not easily pleased: but then what does it matter whether I am pleased or not?" |
12264 | Presently he said,"Do you know what it is to feel_ sad_? |
12264 | Reverie-- has anyone ever tried to represent that? |
12264 | Send me Vincent, will you-- there''s a good man? |
12264 | Shall I use my influence in your favour, my boy? |
12264 | Supposing an unpunctual person were to say,''I do it on principle, to teach precise people not to mind waiting,''where is the flaw in that? |
12264 | That''s pretty beastly, you know, but how is one to help it? |
12264 | The question, is, why is it so beautiful? |
12264 | Then he said,"I suppose this was a vacuum in here till it was broken? |
12264 | Then he said:"Stay a few minutes, wo n''t you, unless you are pressed? |
12264 | Then turning to me, he said,"Gladwin? |
12264 | They have_ life!_""But that is very far from being art, is n''t it?" |
12264 | Was it really a finer life to chatter at dinner- parties and tea- parties, and occasionally to inspect an orphanage? |
12264 | Was it true, as Tennyson bluntly said, that it was as well that they married, because two people were unhappy instead of four?" |
12264 | Was it very bad?" |
12264 | We have all of us faults; we know them, our friends know them-- why the devil should not everyone know them? |
12264 | Well you know how he always seems to be doing something? |
12264 | Were they impossible people to live with? |
12264 | What are you to do then?" |
12264 | What child could love a father who might at any time strike him? |
12264 | What could have been done for them? |
12264 | What do I want, then, with the pretty child? |
12264 | What do you mean by honour?" |
12264 | What do you think of it? |
12264 | What do you think, Gladwin?" |
12264 | What do you think?" |
12264 | What do you want?" |
12264 | What do_ you_ mean by friendship, Father?" |
12264 | What is there to like about many of us?" |
12264 | What is your difficulty?" |
12264 | What ought people to do about stopping?" |
12264 | What sort of a book is it?" |
12264 | What sort of love are we to give God-- the love of the lover, or the son, or the daughter, or the friend, or the patriot, or the dog? |
12264 | What were we in for? |
12264 | What_ is_ pose, after all? |
12264 | Where and how does the thing go wrong? |
12264 | Where are your eyes and ears? |
12264 | Where is the dignity of that? |
12264 | Where will you all be five years hence?'' |
12264 | Who are_ you_, after all? |
12264 | Who but an American would have heard of our little experiment here, and not only wanted to know-- they all do that-- but positively arranged to know? |
12264 | Who can feel free in will, if that is the case? |
12264 | Who could care about the future of the world, if he was to be banished from it for ever? |
12264 | Who, on arriving at home, can lose himself in wondering where his fellow- travellers have got to? |
12264 | Why are we not all as greedy and dirty as the old cave- men? |
12264 | Why be so undignified? |
12264 | Why ca n''t we leave each other alone? |
12264 | Why could n''t he leave Europe alone? |
12264 | Why did I ever start it? |
12264 | Why do we like books, for instance? |
12264 | Why do you shut everyone out?" |
12264 | Why does loving one person make you want to fight another? |
12264 | Why is the one thing which is important for us to know hidden from us?" |
12264 | Why not wish them to do it well too?" |
12264 | Why should n''t I ask you, for a change?" |
12264 | Why should n''t two people be happy and not look ahead, and all that? |
12264 | Why should we be ashamed of all our better feelings? |
12264 | Why should you confirm them in a wholly erroneous view of justice? |
12264 | Why should you cut yourself off from a place you are so fond of, and which is quite the most beautiful place in England too? |
12264 | Why, is n''t he something tremendous?" |
12264 | Why, was it to be supposed that one could not live worthily unless one was always poking one''s nose into one''s neighbour''s concerns? |
12264 | Will you be ready to go the day after to- morrow? |
12264 | Will you hear a bit of it? |
12264 | Wo n''t some one quote an illustration?" |
12264 | Wo n''t you tell me something more about him?" |
12264 | Would you feel the same if you yourself were turned out a helpless invalid for life with your occupation gone? |
12264 | Yes? |
12264 | You and I are friends-- at least I think so; but what exactly do we give each other? |
12264 | You are going back this afternoon, I think?" |
12264 | You are sure I''m not interfering with any arrangement?" |
12264 | You know the proverb that if you knock too long at a closed door, the Devil opens it to you? |
12264 | You meant to anticipate? |
12264 | You quite understand? |
12264 | You remember Nelson''s frank confession, made not once, but many times, that he pursued glory,''Defeat-- or Westminster Abbey''--didn''t he say that?" |
12264 | and do n''t you remember too how he always said life must be a_ real_ fight-- a joining in the fight that was going forwards? |
12264 | he said, brightening up;"you know about stones too? |
12264 | he said,"But are you sure you do n''t want simply to make a bit of a name-- to be known as a clever man? |
12264 | he said-- and then stopping, he said,"But you wanted something-- what is it?" |
12264 | said Barthrop,"Is that all you have to say about her? |
12264 | said Barthrop:"do they really express anything more than a contempt for weakness and sentiment?" |
12264 | said Father Payne,"why should it be bad? |
12264 | said Gladwin very gently;"I think this is new?" |
12264 | you may say,''and how did it get there first?'' |
16406 | Where, then, is the time that we may call long? 16406 ( 2) That it acts and reacts with matter? 16406 ( 3) That it is a substance with attributes? 16406 ( 4) But what shall we say to the last problem-- to the question how we can be conscious of time at all, when the parts of time are all successive? 16406 ( 4) That it is nonextended and immaterial? 16406 ( 4) Why should the thingat the other end of the nerve"remain unknown and unknowable? |
16406 | --In a world as orderly as, in the previous section, this world is conceived to be, is there any room for freedom? |
16406 | A sermon_ seems_ long; was it_ really_ long? |
16406 | A staff stuck into water looks bent, but feels straight to the touch; why believe the testimony of one sense rather than that of another? |
16406 | Am I a slave_ because I eat when I am hungry_, and can I partake of a meal freely, only when there is no reason why I should eat at all? |
16406 | And as for the infinity of time, may we not ask on what ground any one ventures to assert that time is infinite? |
16406 | And before it can move over that half, must it not move over the half of that? |
16406 | And how can any man think space, when the ideas through which he must think it are supposed to be themselves non- extended? |
16406 | And if it is not to be proved by observation, how shall it be proved? |
16406 | And if not, how shall it even start to move? |
16406 | And if they can not come together, what have we in mind when we say they interact? |
16406 | And if we believe that the Divine Mind is not subject to the limitations which confine the human, how shall we conceive it? |
16406 | And if we do, how shall we draw a line between philosophy and the body of the special sciences? |
16406 | And in a field where it is impossible to prove error, must it not be equally impossible to prove truth? |
16406 | And is he not free to marry any one whom he can persuade to accept him? |
16406 | And it is well to remember that he who asks: What is the external world like? |
16406 | And may one on the basis of such reasonings claim that in nature the relation of cause and effect is not a fixed and invariable one? |
16406 | And of what sort of a Being are we speaking when we use the word"God"? |
16406 | And upon what sort of evidence does one depend in establishing the existence of minds other than one''s own? |
16406 | And what can we mean by credit and discredit, by responsibility and free choice, and other concepts of the sort? |
16406 | And what does it mean to move a certain distance? |
16406 | And why is it more difficult for it to get to one end of a nerve like this than it is to get to the other? |
16406 | Are mathematical relations ever those of cause and effect? |
16406 | Are men agreed touching the relations of mind and matter? |
16406 | Are not the objects of sense, after all, only sensations or impressions? |
16406 | Are not these studies rather dry, in the first place, and rather profitless, in the second? |
16406 | Are not these topics metaphysical? |
16406 | Are not things presented in our experience only as we have sensations? |
16406 | Are the parts of it successive, or do they thus exist simultaneously? |
16406 | Are their statements any the less nonsensical because they are talking about minds? |
16406 | Are there no disputes as to the ultimate nature of mind? |
16406 | Are there no evils that foresight and some firmness of character might have obviated? |
16406 | Are they really extended? |
16406 | Are those things"which he sees and feels"_ external_ things? |
16406 | Are we justified in assuming what can not be proved? |
16406 | Are we justified in thus speaking? |
16406 | Are we not concerned with the most familiar of experiences? |
16406 | Are we not following the crowd, or, at least, a goodly number of the pilgrims who are seeking the same goal with ourselves? |
16406 | As I stand and look at it, what shall I call the red glow which I observe? |
16406 | But can all this be done in the absence of any first- hand knowledge of the things of which one is talking? |
16406 | But can one write philosophical books without using words which are not in common use among the unphilosophic? |
16406 | But does this not imply that we can be directly conscious of what is not present, that we can_ now_ perceive what does_ not now_ exist? |
16406 | But has it not been stated above that the material world is an order of_ experiences_? |
16406 | But how can I know that I am near the desk or far from it? |
16406 | But how can it? |
16406 | But how could he? |
16406 | But how is it with the merchant, the lawyer, the clergyman, the physician? |
16406 | But how is the psalm in question"extended along"the memory or the expectation? |
16406 | But if we are to think of space as nonexistent, what shall we call before our minds? |
16406 | But if we do admit it, what shall we make of it? |
16406 | But in what house should he live while he was reconstructing his old habitation? |
16406 | But is it right to use the word"experience"to indicate the phenomena which have a place in the objective order? |
16406 | But is not this a mere compromise? |
16406 | But may my whole experience of the fire be summed up as an experience of sensations and their changes? |
16406 | But should we use the word"in"to express this relation? |
16406 | But this desk here before him: is it not known directly? |
16406 | But to this it may be answered: How is that statement to be proved? |
16406 | But what do the words"verification"and"validation"pragmatically mean? |
16406 | But what is the meaning of this? |
16406 | But what shall we say of his claim that the tree is really green, and only looks blue under certain circumstances? |
16406 | But what sort of minds have they? |
16406 | But when and how can this series be completed? |
16406 | But when? |
16406 | But where are we to stop? |
16406 | But who will undertake to tell us anything definite of the mind of a fly, a grasshopper, a snail, or a cuttlefish? |
16406 | But why should the rest of us care for such studies? |
16406 | But would he be willing to admit that an increase in the sharpness of sense would reveal to us directly the mind connected with such a body? |
16406 | But, it may be argued, why may not the man of science do all this for himself? |
16406 | By what standard shall we judge him? |
16406 | Can a man be conscious of the nonexistent? |
16406 | Can a man be said to be conscious of time as past, present, and future? |
16406 | Can a mere experience of what has been in the past guarantee that this law will hold good in the future? |
16406 | Can an experience be anything but mental? |
16406 | Can anything be less than nothing? |
16406 | Can anything be more open to observation than what passes in a man''s own consciousness? |
16406 | Can he help asking himself, when he sees this, whether the opinions in question express the truth and the whole truth? |
16406 | Can it be that we do not know what they are? |
16406 | Can it be that we know things independently of the avenues of the senses? |
16406 | Can it find something to move over that has no halves? |
16406 | Can it impel a man, let us say, a bigot, to do wrong? |
16406 | Can it push it? |
16406 | Can it touch it? |
16406 | Can man attain to truth at all-- to a truth that is more than a mere truth to him, a seeming truth? |
16406 | Can material things really be to such a creature anything more than some complex of ideas? |
16406 | Can one infinite number be greater than another, and, if so, what can greater mean? |
16406 | Can there be a_ proof_ of this right to make the leap from one consciousness to another? |
16406 | Can there be such a thing as_ verification_ in this field? |
16406 | Can we say that this world is always to be regarded as reality and never as appearance? |
16406 | Can we_ know_ that there is anything fixed and certain in our world? |
16406 | Can you, reader? |
16406 | Could Descartes or Locke have more plainly supported the doctrine of representative perception? |
16406 | Could anything whatever escape this all- devouring doubt? |
16406 | Could we ever find out our error? |
16406 | Did any one ever succeed in dividing a space up infinitely? |
16406 | Did any single group, did the experience which I had at any single moment, seem to me to be_ in my body_? |
16406 | Do I ever perceive the substance? |
16406 | Do not the senses sometimes deceive us? |
16406 | Do we connect things with one another in this way merely because we have had_ experience_ that they are thus connected? |
16406 | Do we continue to see what we saw before? |
16406 | Do we not experience these sensations or impressions interruptedly? |
16406 | Does God exist? |
16406 | Does any one suppose that my turning my head has done anything to the fire? |
16406 | Does any one suppose that the fire has been annihilated? |
16406 | Does he not believe that his ideas come to him through the avenues of the senses? |
16406 | Does he not maintain that the mind has an immediate knowledge or experience only of its own ideas? |
16406 | Does he not perceive that he has a body and a mind? |
16406 | Does he really suffer and enjoy as acutely as he seems to? |
16406 | Does he say this? |
16406 | Does he see and feel them directly, or must he infer from his ideas that he sees and feels them? |
16406 | Does it seem reasonable to maintain that thoughts and feelings are related to brains in this way? |
16406 | Does not every one use the expression? |
16406 | Does not one first clear space of objects, and then try to clear space of space in much the same way? |
16406 | Does not the plain man distinguish between his ideas of things and the things themselves? |
16406 | Does the chemist ever dream of collecting them in a test tube, and of drawing up for us a list of their constituent elements? |
16406 | Does this particular experience bear some peculiar earmark which tells us that it is like the real tree while the others are unlike it? |
16406 | First: Is a parallelism so carefully guarded as this properly called_ parallelism_ at all? |
16406 | Has a man not the right to marry or remain single exactly as he pleases? |
16406 | Has any man ever looked upon a line and perceived directly that it has an infinite number of parts? |
16406 | Has ethics nothing to do with religion? |
16406 | Has he not abundant evidence that his mind is intimately related to his body? |
16406 | Has it any real size at all? |
16406 | Has it real duration? |
16406 | Has it_ done_ anything? |
16406 | Has not the word"subjective"lost its significance? |
16406 | Has the fire really grown less hot? |
16406 | Has the minute begun? |
16406 | Have such fractions of the magnitudes that we do know and can perceive any real existence? |
16406 | Have we not always known that things in combination are apt to have different properties from the same things taken separately? |
16406 | Have we not seen that the word is ambiguous? |
16406 | He answers: Do you mean to tell me that complexes of sensation can be on a shelf or in a drawer? |
16406 | He has manifestly no right to ask us: How does the external world look when no one is looking? |
16406 | He is inside-- of what? |
16406 | He is led to ask: What is truth? |
16406 | He simply_ can not_ doubt them; are they not vouched for by the"natural light"? |
16406 | He who asks: How big was that imaginary tree really? |
16406 | He who asks: Where is the middle of an infinite line? |
16406 | He would not even assume himself to be in his right mind and awake; might he not be the victim of a diseased fancy, or a man deluded by dreams? |
16406 | How are mind and body related? |
16406 | How big is it? |
16406 | How big is the tree? |
16406 | How can a material thing and an immaterial thing"come together"at a point or surface? |
16406 | How can a point even begin to move along an infinitely divisible line? |
16406 | How can an immaterial thing be located at some point or surface within the body? |
16406 | How can any man suffer from an hallucination, if things are not inferred from images, but are known independently? |
16406 | How can he prove that there are material extended things outside causing these ideas? |
16406 | How can one color be more real than another? |
16406 | How can one feel at home in a world which one has entered for the first time? |
16406 | How can the_ ego_ place the whole of itself at the end of a nerve which it has constructed within itself? |
16406 | How can we avoid such errors? |
16406 | How can we be sure that what has been will be? |
16406 | How can we dare to assume that they are? |
16406 | How close then can we actually get to this supposed world outside ourselves? |
16406 | How could Reid imagine he was combatting that doctrine when he wrote thus? |
16406 | How could it appear except under the conditions laid upon all phenomena? |
16406 | How do I know it? |
16406 | How do I know that I have a mind? |
16406 | How do I know that I perceive the desk before me; and how do I know that, sitting here, I imagine, and do not see, the front door of the house? |
16406 | How do justice to this relation, and yet not materialize mind? |
16406 | How do they know that it is? |
16406 | How do things feel when no one feels them? |
16406 | How do we come to a knowledge of space, and what do we mean by space? |
16406 | How do we know that our inference to the existence of other minds is a justifiable inference? |
16406 | How do we know that there are other minds than ours? |
16406 | How do we know that we are experiencing sensations? |
16406 | How do you know it? |
16406 | How does an immaterial thing set a material thing in motion? |
16406 | How does he establish its existence? |
16406 | How does he prove his assumption? |
16406 | How does he reconcile these two positions? |
16406 | How does it happen that, in the first instance, I seem to most men to be_ the_ cause, and in the second to be not a cause at all? |
16406 | How does one mind act upon another, and what does it mean for one mind to act upon another? |
16406 | How else can he begin than by accepting and more critically examining the world as it seems revealed in the experience of the race? |
16406 | How far away is the tree? |
16406 | How far does he agree with the plain man? |
16406 | How is it that the logician comes to regard these things as within his province? |
16406 | How is the time which has elapsed since measured? |
16406 | How is this possible? |
16406 | How must we think of this real space? |
16406 | How shall I think of things, not as I think of them, but as they are? |
16406 | How shall we conceive an immaterial thing to be related to a material one? |
16406 | How shall we conceive it? |
16406 | How shall we conceive the relation between what is in our mind and the something corresponding to it not in our mind? |
16406 | How shall we determine whether this world in which we live is such a world that we may take it as a revelation of God? |
16406 | How shall we explain this necessity? |
16406 | How shall we picture to ourselves"the conscious_ ego_ of each one of us seated at the brain terminals of the sensory nerves"? |
16406 | How shall we set about enlightening our ignorance? |
16406 | How walk cautiously, and go around the pit into which, as it seems to us, others have fallen? |
16406 | How, then, can one afford to remain critical and negative? |
16406 | How, then, does metaphysics differ from philosophy? |
16406 | How, then, shall the point move? |
16406 | How? |
16406 | I ask, is it not significant that such an assumption should be made only in the realm of the unverifiable? |
16406 | I do not say, be it observed, can we conceive of something as attacking and annihilating space? |
16406 | If I imagine a tree a hundred feet high, is it really a hundred feet high? |
16406 | If all our knowledge has its foundations in experience, how can we expect to find in our possession any universal or necessary truths? |
16406 | If one does not directly perceive it to be infinite, must one not seek for some proof of the fact? |
16406 | If other men''s bodies are my sensations, may not other men''s minds be my imaginings? |
16406 | If such a movement must always have its place in a causal series of this kind, how can it be regarded as a free movement? |
16406 | If the latter, why may one not still doubt? |
16406 | If the meaning has disappeared, why continue to use the word? |
16406 | If truths are no truer for being expressed in a repellent form, why should he trick them out in a fantastic garb? |
16406 | If we ask him: Does the man who wags his head move his mind about? |
16406 | If we ask the plain man, What is the real external world? |
16406 | If we can know only mental phenomena, the representatives of things, at first hand, how can we tell that they are representatives? |
16406 | If what is not colored can cause me to perceive color, why may not that which is not extended cause me to perceive extension? |
16406 | If, then, we ask the question: What is the real external world? |
16406 | In all this conflict of opinions where shall we seek for truth? |
16406 | In other words, can the world exist, except as it is_ perceived to exist_? |
16406 | In our distribution of minds may we stop short of even the very lowest animal organisms? |
16406 | In this field no two men seem to be wholly agreed, and if they were, what would it signify? |
16406 | In what can such a doubt take its rise? |
16406 | In what direction is it? |
16406 | Is a man not free to take up what profession he pleases? |
16406 | Is color any part of the touch thing? |
16406 | Is he not aware of the fact that, when a sense is disordered, the thing as he perceives it is not like the thing"as it is"? |
16406 | Is he not forced to take the critical attitude toward them? |
16406 | Is it Certain that we know It? |
16406 | Is it a perfectly proper thing that, in one age, men should be idealists, and in another, materialists; in one, theists, and in another, agnostics? |
16406 | Is it a thing to be explained? |
16406 | Is it a thing, or a quality of a thing, or merely a relation between things? |
16406 | Is it because they are_ given_ to us connected in this way? |
16406 | Is it ever more than a sign of the touch thing? |
16406 | Is it extended? |
16406 | Is it future? |
16406 | Is it more difficult to work in these fields than in others? |
16406 | Is it not just as true that the tree only looks green under certain circumstances? |
16406 | Is it not reduced to the position of a passive spectator? |
16406 | Is it not to represent to oneself the objects as no longer in space,_ i.e._ to imagine the space as empty, as cleared of the objects? |
16406 | Is it not true that a great many of them believe:--( 1) That the mind is in the body? |
16406 | Is it otherwise in philosophy? |
16406 | Is it real? |
16406 | Is it right to close our eyes to what"may very well be,"just because we choose to do so? |
16406 | Is it safe to do this? |
16406 | Is it sensible to say that I can not have been free in refusing a twenty per cent investment,_ because I am by nature prudent_? |
16406 | Is it to be proved by observing that, when things are present and affect the senses, there come into being ideas which represent the things? |
16406 | Is it worth while to study this? |
16406 | Is it_ causal_, or should it be conceived to be_ something else_? |
16406 | Is not the object_ there_? |
16406 | Is not this a recognition of the fact that the choice is a thing to be accounted for, and is, nevertheless, a free choice? |
16406 | Is the Material World a Mechanism? |
16406 | Is the Mind in the Body? |
16406 | Is the distinction between true and false nothing else than the distinction between what is in harmony with the spirit of the times and what is not? |
16406 | Is the modern materialism more satisfactory? |
16406 | Is the object of all this adoration the metaphysical absurdity indicated above? |
16406 | Is the tree_ really_ a faint blue, or is it_ really_ a vivid green? |
16406 | Is there an external world? |
16406 | Is there any evidence whatever that we are shut up, for all our immediate knowledge, to such a"now"? |
16406 | Is there some deeper principle which lends to each of them its authority, and which may, for cause, withdraw it? |
16406 | Is there such a thing as justice, as right? |
16406 | Is this as it should be? |
16406 | Is this mathematical reasoning? |
16406 | Is this new, real world the world of things in which the plain man finds himself, and in which he has felt so much at home? |
16406 | It is a fair question to ask: Why is philosophy so bound up with the study of the past? |
16406 | It is driven to reflective analysis-- to such questions as, what is beauty? |
16406 | Listen:--( 1) It follows that, in so far as I am"free,"I am not the author of what appear to be my acts; who can be the cause of causeless actions? |
16406 | May I assert that this mental image has no extension whatever? |
16406 | May not a later experience contradict an earlier? |
16406 | May one embrace this belief and abandon the other one? |
16406 | May one not, with open eyes, have a hallucination of vision, just as one may seem to hear one''s name pronounced when no one is by? |
16406 | May we call"Things"Groups of Sensations? |
16406 | May we expect that the day will come when he will be justified or condemned as is the astronomer on the day predicted for an eclipse? |
16406 | May we ignore him, and refuse to consider the matter at all? |
16406 | May we not conceive such to be possible? |
16406 | May we not fall into error at the very outset? |
16406 | May we or may we not conceive of space as a whole as nonexistent? |
16406 | May we say that sense- impressions_ come flowing in_ to him? |
16406 | May we say that, as far back as we can remember, we have thought of ourselves and of other persons as possessing minds? |
16406 | May we under such circumstances describe any clerk as_ in a telephone exchange_? |
16406 | Must I deny to it_ parts_, or assert that its parts are not side by side? |
16406 | Must it not before it can move over any distance, however short, first move over half that distance? |
16406 | Must we not open our eyes to see, and unstop our ears to hear? |
16406 | Must we not regard man as"a physical automaton with parallel psychical states"? |
16406 | Must we then conclude that we are never free? |
16406 | Must, then, the parallelist abandon the argument for other minds? |
16406 | Need he do anything very different from what is done more imperfectly by every intelligent man who interests himself in plants? |
16406 | Not the mental image, the mere representative, but the desk itself, a something that is physical and not mental? |
16406 | Now I perceive a tree as faint and blue, now as bright and green; will a reference to the Unknowable explain why the experiences differed? |
16406 | Now, do the sense- impressions of which everything is to be constructed"come flowing in"along these nerves that are really inside? |
16406 | Now, what can the parallelist mean by_ referring_ sensations and ideas to the brain and yet denying that they are_ in_ the brain? |
16406 | Now, what is this reality with which appearances-- the whole world of things which seem to be given in our experience-- are contrasted? |
16406 | OBJECTIONS TO PARALLELISM.--What objections can be brought against parallelism? |
16406 | Of what could it be the quality? |
16406 | On the other hand, if we allow the image to be extended, how can we refer it to a nonextended mind? |
16406 | On what authority shall we suspend for the time being this axiomatic principle or that? |
16406 | On what ground may the philosopher combat the universal opinion, the dictum of common sense and of science? |
16406 | On what sort of evidence does a man base his statements regarding space? |
16406 | Or is it a knowledge of a quite different kind? |
16406 | Or is it of some intermediate color? |
16406 | Or shall it in despair refuse to move at all? |
16406 | Or shall we urge them to close their eyes to the light, and to go back again to the old unreflective life? |
16406 | PART II PROBLEMS TOUCHING THE EXTERNAL WORLD CHAPTER III IS THERE AN EXTERNAL WORLD? |
16406 | PART III PROBLEMS TOUCHING THE MIND CHAPTER VIII WHAT IS THE MIND? |
16406 | PROBLEMS TOUCHING THE EXTERNAL WORLD CHAPTER III IS THERE AN EXTERNAL WORLD? |
16406 | PROBLEMS TOUCHING THE MIND CHAPTER VIII WHAT IS THE MIND? |
16406 | REAL THINGS.--And what is this_ real tree_ that we are supposed to see as it is when we are close to it? |
16406 | Shall I call it a_ quality of a thing_, or shall I call it a_ sensation_? |
16406 | Shall I describe this by saying that my sensations have changed, or may I say that the fire itself has changed? |
16406 | Shall a man simply assume that the opinions which he happens to hold are correct, and that all who differ with him are in error? |
16406 | Shall he assert that it did, nevertheless, contain an infinite number of parts? |
16406 | Shall he hold that certain mental links are"free- will"links, that they are wholly unaccountable? |
16406 | Shall it move first to some position that is not the next? |
16406 | Shall we allow the philosopher to tell us that we must not use it in this sense, but must say that only sensations and ideas exist? |
16406 | Shall we allow this to pass unchallenged? |
16406 | Shall we call the mind as thus known a_ substance_? |
16406 | Shall we call this knowledge of something not ourselves"self- transcendence"? |
16406 | Shall we conceive of these last as atoms, as void space, or as the motion of atoms? |
16406 | Shall we deny the truth of what the psychologist has to tell us about a knowledge of things only through the sensations to which they give rise? |
16406 | Shall we just assume it dogmatically and pass on to something else? |
16406 | Shall we leave the inconsistent position of the plain man and of the psychologist and take our refuge in this world of projected mental constructs? |
16406 | Shall we on this account turn our backs upon them and refuse them an impartial hearing? |
16406 | Shall we say that Descartes frankly repudiated the doctrine that had obtained for so many centuries? |
16406 | Shall we say that they really have no parts? |
16406 | Shall we say that this is the meaning of the word philosophy now? |
16406 | Shall we say that we may call practical only such learning as can be turned to direct account in earning money later? |
16406 | Shall we say that, because these things are mental and not physical, their apparent extension is a delusion? |
16406 | Shall we tell the truth and the whole truth, when so doing will bring grave misfortune upon an innocent person? |
16406 | Since the nerve is entirely in the mind, is purely a mental construct, can anything whatever be at the end of it without being in the mind? |
16406 | THE QUESTION OF PRACTICAL UTILITY.--Why should men study philosophy? |
16406 | Take away the color, the hardness, the odor, the taste; what have we left? |
16406 | The only legitimate question is:_ What is the nature_ of the relation? |
16406 | The only problem is: Why does this tendency exist? |
16406 | The philosophy of geometry is quite a different subject; it includes such inquiries as these: Whence is the cogency of geometrical proof? |
16406 | The present is, it seems, the only existent; how long is the present? |
16406 | The question may, then, fairly be raised: How can he be a_ subjective idealist_? |
16406 | The question naturally arises: Why has his task come to be circumscribed as it is? |
16406 | The question will keep coming back again: May there not, after all, be a legitimate doubt on the subject? |
16406 | The second experience is the more unusual one, but would not every one say: Now we perceive the thing_ as it is_? |
16406 | The space itself is not supposed to be in the mind; how can a collection of non- extended ideas give any inkling of what is meant by extension? |
16406 | The thing he perceives must, then, be_ appearance_; and where can that appearance be if not in his own mind? |
16406 | The titles are:"The Automaton Theory: Parallelism,""What is Parallelism?" |
16406 | Then how did it succeed in passing? |
16406 | Then what does it do? |
16406 | Then, can he really be inside? |
16406 | There are, then, minds as well as bodies; what place shall we assign to these minds in the system of nature? |
16406 | There is no more reason for stopping at one point than at another; why not go on? |
16406 | This seems to lead back to the broader question: How are we to conceive of any mind as related to the world? |
16406 | This we may freely admit, for what does one try to do when one makes the effort to imagine the nonexistence of space? |
16406 | Thus, we are forced to ask ourselves, have we really a collection of ultimate moral principles which are analogous to the axioms of geometry? |
16406 | Thus, we ask: When was Julius Caesar born? |
16406 | Thus, we find it not unnatural that a man should be led to ask; What is a minus quantity really? |
16406 | Thus, when I ask: Why do I perceive that tree now as faint and blue and now as vivid and green? |
16406 | To be sure, we believe that the originals exist, but can we be quite sure of it? |
16406 | To this I reply: What of that? |
16406 | To this we may answer: Does the world get along so very well, after all? |
16406 | Upon what ground can one urge that this inference to other minds is a doubtful one? |
16406 | Was the Unknowable in the one instance farther off in an unknowable space, and in the other nearer? |
16406 | We are not introduced to such problems as: What_ is_ truth? |
16406 | We ask: When did he conceive the plan of writing his Commentaries? |
16406 | We must ask: Has a man the right to set up these particular statements and to reason from them? |
16406 | We no longer ask: Is there an external world? |
16406 | We say, How big did the tree seen in a dream_ seem_; we do not say, How big was it_ really_? |
16406 | We_ seem_ to live years in a dream; was the dream_ really_ a long one? |
16406 | What Other Minds are there? |
16406 | What are infinitesimals? |
16406 | What are space and time? |
16406 | What are the emotions, if he has any, of the Chinaman in the laundry near by? |
16406 | What are the faculties by which we become aware of their truth? |
16406 | What are these things as revealed in our experience? |
16406 | What are things really like? |
16406 | What can induce men to regard it with suspicion? |
16406 | What can it be? |
16406 | What can it mean, hence, to say that it is_ there_? |
16406 | What can the word"beyond"mean if it does not signify space beyond? |
16406 | What can they mean by such expressions? |
16406 | What can we mean by the word"apple,"if we do not mean the group of experiences in which alone an apple is presented to us? |
16406 | What can we mean by void space but the system of possible relations in which things, if they exist, must stand? |
16406 | What can we substitute for it? |
16406 | What can"inside"and"outside"mean? |
16406 | What chemist or physicist need busy himself with the doctrine of atoms and their clashings presented in the magnificent poem of Lucretius? |
16406 | What could end space? |
16406 | What do these expressions mean? |
16406 | What do we mean by a mind? |
16406 | What do we mean by its shape? |
16406 | What does it mean to imagine or represent to oneself the nonexistence of material objects? |
16406 | What does it serve to indicate? |
16406 | What does this mean in plain language? |
16406 | What follows from such a doctrine? |
16406 | What guarantee have we that the"forms of thought"must ever remain changeless? |
16406 | What has now become of the world of realities to which the plain man pinned his faith? |
16406 | What has told you also of the nerve from the tip of your finger to your brain? |
16406 | What have we a right to regard as absolute proof of the existence of another mind? |
16406 | What hypotheses may one frame, and what are inadmissible? |
16406 | What if the man of science is right in suspecting that the series of physical causes and effects is nowhere broken? |
16406 | What important difference is there between his doctrine and that of the man whose skeptical tendencies he wished to combat? |
16406 | What is Metaphysics? |
16406 | What is Real Space? |
16406 | What is Real Time? |
16406 | What is it? |
16406 | What is its meaning? |
16406 | What is said may seem plausible; it may even seem true, and is it right for a man to oppose what appears to be the truth? |
16406 | What is that standard? |
16406 | What is the difference between sense and imagination? |
16406 | What is the evidence of the axioms and definitions? |
16406 | What is the mind? |
16406 | What is the normal application of the term? |
16406 | What is the real external world to the man of science? |
16406 | What is the real external world to the plain man? |
16406 | What is the relation between mind and matter? |
16406 | What is the relation of such sciences as these to philosophy? |
16406 | What is the source of this distinction? |
16406 | What is this feeling, and what is its authority? |
16406 | What is this reference? |
16406 | What is this"freedom"? |
16406 | What is this_ real_ time? |
16406 | What is_ experience_? |
16406 | What limit shall he set to the possible subdivision of_ real_ things? |
16406 | What may we accept as directly revealed fact? |
16406 | What of_ noumena_? |
16406 | What science even attempts to tell us how a mind, by an act of volition, sets material particles in motion or changes the direction of their motion? |
16406 | What shall be done with this consciousness? |
16406 | What shall we call the plain man? |
16406 | What shall we do with them? |
16406 | What shall we say to panpsychism of the type represented by Clifford? |
16406 | What shall we say to such a demand? |
16406 | What shall we say to the statement that space is infinitely divisible? |
16406 | What shall we say to this doctrine? |
16406 | What thoughtful man is not struck with the variety of ethical standards which obtain in the same community? |
16406 | What, then, is the external world? |
16406 | When did all time begin? |
16406 | When he asks regarding anything: How far away is it? |
16406 | When in common life we speak of a man as free, what do we understand by the word? |
16406 | When may we, then, properly call a man free? |
16406 | When we ask: In what direction is the tree? |
16406 | When we realize this, do we not free ourselves from the difficulties which seemed to make the motion of a point over a line an impossible absurdity? |
16406 | When we try to make clear to ourselves how a point moves along an infinitely divisible line, do we not seem to land in sheer absurdities? |
16406 | Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it, with an almost endless variety? |
16406 | Whence do the laws derive their authority? |
16406 | Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? |
16406 | Where did Descartes get this notion that every idea must have a cause which contains as much external reality as the idea does represented reality? |
16406 | Where else should we look for an answer? |
16406 | Where is space as a whole? |
16406 | Where is the image? |
16406 | Where is there room in such a system for minds? |
16406 | Where shall we begin? |
16406 | Where, in such a world as this, is there room for mind, and what can we mean by mind? |
16406 | Which of these representatives is most like the tree? |
16406 | Who can be conscious of the nonexistent? |
16406 | Who can set a limit to such possible substitutions? |
16406 | Who sees or feels a table continuously day after day? |
16406 | Who shall be the arbiter? |
16406 | Who wants to be an automaton with an accompanying consciousness? |
16406 | Whom may we regard as representing the three kinds of"hypothetical realism"described in the text? |
16406 | Why can we not tell clearly what we mean when we use the word"self,"or speak of"knowledge,"or insist that we know an"external world"? |
16406 | Why do we speak as we do? |
16406 | Why doubt such evidence as this? |
16406 | Why have not these, also, separated off and set up for themselves? |
16406 | Why not admit that these_ constitute_ the mind, as physical phenomena constitute the things which belong to the external world? |
16406 | Why should he leave it to the philosopher, who is presumably less intimately acquainted with the sciences than he is? |
16406 | Why should he strive to attain to a feeling of subjective certainty, not by logically resolving his doubts, but by ignoring them? |
16406 | Why should he teach just these things and no others? |
16406 | Why should he wish to make it seem true whether it is true or not? |
16406 | Why should it be so in morals? |
16406 | Why should not a man test his ideas by turning to things and comparing the former with the latter? |
16406 | Why should we accept one man as a teacher rather than another? |
16406 | Why this difference? |
16406 | Why was this? |
16406 | Why were these men not overwhelmed with the task set them by the tradition of their time? |
16406 | Why, it was asked, should this group of disciplines be regarded as the field of the philosopher, when others are excluded? |
16406 | Why, then, am I in the one case regarded as active and in the other as passive? |
16406 | Why, then, should the science of psychology lag behind? |
16406 | Why, then, use the word"experience"? |
16406 | Why? |
16406 | Would a man with different senses know things just as we do? |
16406 | Would any teacher of mathematics dream of discussing these questions with his class before proceeding to the proof of his propositions? |
16406 | Would not those who now love to point out the shortcomings of the science of mechanics discover a fine field for their destructive criticism? |
16406 | Would we have any notion of size or shape? |
16406 | _ What does the point do first?_ that is the question. |
16406 | and Is_ any_ knowledge valid? |
16406 | and can there be such a thing as an experience that is not_ experienced_ by somebody? |
16406 | and what becomes of the assumption that we_ perceive_ that mind is related to an external world? |
16406 | and what can be meant by different orders of infinitesimals? |
16406 | and what is meant by aesthetic progress? |
16406 | and when they do speak thus, is it conceivable that other men should seriously occupy themselves with what they say? |
16406 | and why these endless disputes as to whether it can really be treated as a"natural science"at all? |
16406 | and, if so, what reason can be assigned for the fact? |
16406 | as_ no nearer_ to his subscribers than his end of the wire? |
16406 | as_ receiving messages_? |
16406 | asks, in effect: How much real space did the unreal tree fill? |
16406 | but rather:_ What_ is the external world, and how does it differ from the world of mere ideas? |
16406 | can be cut with a knife or broken with the hands? |
16406 | does he not_ see_ and_ feel_ it? |
16406 | does he who mounts a step raise his mind some inches? |
16406 | does he who sits down on a chair lower his mind? |
16406 | how did it even_ begin_ to pass away? |
16406 | how, then,_ can_ we distinguish between sensations and things? |
16406 | in other words, who can set a limit to the divisibility of a_ real line_? |
16406 | is it not to have sensations? |
16406 | or is the argument"from analogy"really a proof of some sort? |
16406 | or must his words and actions be accepted with a discount? |
16406 | or that he should raise the questions: Can one rightly speak of an infinite number? |
16406 | should strive to attain to clear vision and correct judgment on the whole subject of man''s duties? |
16406 | what is it to perceive a thing? |