This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
| identifier | question |
|---|---|
| 16044 | How is it possible for any one who is acquainted with these facts, and thinks from reason, to assert that such bodies are uninhabited? |
| 16044 | To what other purpose could so great a heaven with so many constellations be intended? |
| 16044 | What, said they, does anyone need but food and raiment, and thus to live content and quiet under one''s own management? |
| 26861 | 130--Ah where can Sympathy reflecting find One bright idea to console the mind? |
| 26861 | How loves, and tastes, and sympathies commence From evanescent notices of sense? |
| 26861 | O, Goddess, say, if brighter scenes improve Air- breathing tribes, and births of sexual love?" |
| 26861 | One ray of light in this terrene abode To prove to Man the Goodness of his GOD?" |
| 26861 | Unde hominum pecudumque genus, vitæque volantum, Et quæ marmoreo fert monstra sub æquore pontus? |
| 26861 | exulting cries,''Where is thy sting? |
| 26861 | thy victories?'' |
| 36495 | I will ask the bards,he says in his_ Hymn of the World_,"and why will not the bards answer me? |
| 36495 | What does this apparition presage? |
| 36495 | What misfortune then do you suppose,said he,"is presaged by the body that hides the sun, which differs from this in nothing but being larger?" |
| 36495 | Another example may be given in his answer to the question, Why must the stars move round the earth? |
| 36495 | But to what does the earth owe its germs and its species? |
| 36495 | But what can serve for its support? |
| 36495 | Does the zodiac then turn in this way? |
| 36495 | He sent for the wretched prophet, gave him a severe reprimand, and then asked him the question,"You, who know everything, when will_ you_ die?" |
| 36495 | I will ask of them what sustains the earth, since having no support it does not fall? |
| 36495 | If such were the ideas entertained amongst the most enlightened nations, what may we expect among those who were less advanced? |
| 36495 | In what way was the primitive year regulated? |
| 36495 | Indeed, since the world began, the world will doubtless end, and astronomers are still asked how could it be brought about? |
| 36495 | Instead of asking What"o''clock"is it? |
| 36495 | Is it solid? |
| 36495 | Is the world a great traveller? |
| 36495 | It is very obvious to ask on this--_Why_ should there be a_ catastrophe_? |
| 36495 | Now if there were a man created on that earth, would there be such a thing as"time"for him? |
| 36495 | Now what is this great year or cycle of 600 years? |
| 36495 | Now when was this date? |
| 36495 | Now, how had the Druids made an observation of this kind? |
| 36495 | Oh, star- eyed science, hast thou wandered there To waft us home the message of despair?" |
| 36495 | Under what form did Druidical science represent the universe? |
| 36495 | What time should we find there? |
| 36495 | When they saw a ship represented, what more suitable than to name it the ship Argo? |
| 36495 | and why should not the centre of gravity return_ gradually_ as it was gradually displaced? |
| 36495 | or gaseous? |
| 36495 | or if it falls which way does it go? |
| 36495 | or liquid? |
| 36495 | the Greeks would say,"What star is passing?" |
| 36495 | was it a solar or a sidereal year? |
| 1572 | ''And what was the subject of the poem?'' |
| 1572 | ''If they are the same, why have they different names; or if they are different, why have they the same name?'' |
| 1572 | ''What do you mean?'' |
| 1572 | And how was the tale transferred to the poem of Solon? |
| 1572 | And is all that which we call an intelligible essence nothing at all, and only a name? |
| 1572 | And is the thought expressed in them to be attributed to the learning of the Egyptian priest, and not rather to the genius of Plato? |
| 1572 | And what was the tale about, Critias? |
| 1572 | And whence came the tradition to Egypt? |
| 1572 | And( b) what proof is there that the axis of the world revolves at all? |
| 1572 | Are not the words,''The truth of the story is a great advantage,''if we read between the lines, an indication of the fiction? |
| 1572 | Are we right in saying that there is one world, or that they are many and infinite? |
| 1572 | But are probabilities for which there is not a tittle of evidence, and which are without any parallel, to be deemed worthy of attention by the critic? |
| 1572 | But then why, when things are divided after their kinds, do they not cease from motion? |
| 1572 | Did Plato derive the legend of Atlantis from an Egyptian source? |
| 1572 | For how can that which is divided be like that which is undivided? |
| 1572 | Has not disease been regarded, like sin, sometimes as a negative and necessary, sometimes as a positive or malignant principle? |
| 1572 | Have not many discussions arisen about the Atomic theory in which a point has been confused with a material atom? |
| 1572 | Have not the natures of things been explained by imaginary entities, such as life or phlogiston, which exist in the mind only? |
| 1572 | How came the poem of Solon to disappear in antiquity? |
| 1572 | How can matter be conceived to exist without form? |
| 1572 | How can we doubt the word of the children of the Gods? |
| 1572 | How can we doubt the word of the children of the gods? |
| 1572 | How or where shall we find another if we abandon this? |
| 1572 | How, then, shall we settle this point, and what questions about the elements may be fairly raised? |
| 1572 | In what relation does the archetype stand to the Creator himself? |
| 1572 | Indeed, when it is in every direction similar, how can one rightly give to it names which imply opposition? |
| 1572 | Is there any self- existent fire? |
| 1572 | May they not have had, like the animals, an instinct of something more than they knew? |
| 1572 | May we not claim for Plato an anticipation of modern ideas as about some questions of astronomy and physics, so also about medicine? |
| 1572 | Or is there anything more, my dear Timaeus, which has been omitted? |
| 1572 | Or rather was not the proposal too singular to be forgotten? |
| 1572 | Or that which is changing be the copy of that which is unchanging? |
| 1572 | Or, how can the essences or forms of things be distinguished from the eternal ideas, or essence itself from the soul? |
| 1572 | Or, how could space or anything else have been eternal when time is only created? |
| 1572 | Or, how could the Creator have taken portions of an indivisible same? |
| 1572 | Or, how could the surfaces of geometrical figures have formed solids? |
| 1572 | Or, how could there have been a time when the world was not, if time was not? |
| 1572 | Or, how could there have been motion in the chaos when as yet time was not? |
| 1572 | Or, how did chaos come into existence, if not by the will of the Creator? |
| 1572 | Plato himself proposes the question, Why does motion continue at all when the elements are settled in their places? |
| 1572 | SOCRATES: And what about the procreation of children? |
| 1572 | SOCRATES: And what did we say of their education? |
| 1572 | SOCRATES: Did we not begin by separating the husbandmen and the artisans from the class of defenders of the State? |
| 1572 | SOCRATES: Do you remember what were the points of which I required you to speak? |
| 1572 | SOCRATES: One, two, three; but where, my dear Timaeus, is the fourth of those who were yesterday my guests and are to be my entertainers to- day? |
| 1572 | SOCRATES: Then have I now given you all the heads of our yesterday''s discussion? |
| 1572 | The prelude is charming, and is already accepted by us-- may we beg of you to proceed to the strain? |
| 1572 | This being supposed, let us proceed to the next stage: In the likeness of what animal did the Creator make the world? |
| 1572 | This is the greatest boon of sight: and of the lesser benefits why should I speak? |
| 1572 | Were they not to be trained in gymnastic, and music, and all other sorts of knowledge which were proper for them? |
| 1572 | What is this but the atoms of Democritus and the triangles of Plato? |
| 1572 | What makes fire burn? |
| 1572 | What nature are we to attribute to this new kind of being? |
| 1572 | When we accuse them of being under the influence of words, do we suppose that we are altogether free from this illusion? |
| 1572 | and do all those things which we call self- existent exist? |
| 1572 | or are only those things which we see, or in some way perceive through the bodily organs, truly existent, and nothing whatever besides them? |
| 1572 | or created, and had it a beginning? |
| 1572 | or in what does the story consist except in the war between the two rival powers and the submersion of both of them? |
| 1572 | or why did Plato, if the whole narrative was known to him, break off almost at the beginning of it? |
| 5641 | Have you seen nothing in the sky? |
| 5641 | ''Was it in this way'', Eddington asks,''that Rutherford rendered concrete the nucleus which his scientific imagination had created?'' |
| 5641 | ''Why do I regard as essential the question whether Jungius conceived the idea of metamorphosis as we know it? |
| 5641 | * We follow Goethe''s line when, in order to answer the question,''What is electricity?'' |
| 5641 | 1Wär''nicht das Auge sonnenhaft, Wie könnten wir das Licht erblicken? |
| 5641 | Accordingly, in his Ethics of the Dust, Ruskin does not answer the question:''What is Life?'' |
| 5641 | Among the greatest achievements of modern science, does not the conception of evolution take a foremost place? |
| 5641 | And last but not least, what was the ancient conception of Chaos which led van Helmont to choose this name as an archetype for the new word he needed? |
| 5641 | As to air itself, why should he describe it as belonging to the realm of the''uncreated things''? |
| 5641 | But is there any need, I asked myself, to cling to this purely static notion of man''s capacity for gaining knowledge? |
| 5641 | But what does Bradley''s observation tell us, once we exclude all foregone conclusions? |
| 5641 | But who could give me this knowledge? |
| 5641 | By contemplation( Anschauen) of an ever- creative nature, may we not make ourselves worthy to be spiritual sharers in her productions? |
| 5641 | CHAPTER II Where Do We Stand To- day? |
| 5641 | Dare one believe that in electricity the soul of nature had been discovered? |
| 5641 | Eddington starts by asking:''When Lord Rutherford showed us the atomic nucleus, did he find it or did he make it?'' |
| 5641 | Eddington''s question,''Manufacture or Discovery?'' |
| 5641 | Faithful to his question,''How does colour arise?'' |
| 5641 | For why, then, should the whole meteorological sphere be involved, and why should living beings react in the way described? |
| 5641 | How, then, do we receive the conviction of the latter''s existence? |
| 5641 | In other words, where does nature show levity concentrated in a limited part of space- that is, in a condition characteristic of ponderable matter? |
| 5641 | Indeed, how could it be otherwise for a purely kinematic world- observation? |
| 5641 | Is it not strange, that an infant should be the heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?'' |
| 5641 | Is it then possible that pure numbers can effect what took place above and within Nagasaki, Hiroshima, etc.? |
| 5641 | It is again Eddington who has drawn attention particularly to this question: see the chapter,''Discovery or Manufacture?'' |
| 5641 | It is always a flash of light- and how could it be otherwise? |
| 5641 | It is characteristic of Goethe''s whole mode of procedure that he at once changed the question,''What is colour?'' |
| 5641 | Like the modern experimenter, he, too, is faced with the question''Discovery or Manufacture?'' |
| 5641 | May we not reasonably judge from what hath happened? |
| 5641 | Need we wonder that we are challenged to do so in our day, when mankind is several centuries older than it was in the time of Galileo? |
| 5641 | Our question therefore must be: what is the light- image whose boundary comes to coloured manifestation in the phenomenon of the rainbow? |
| 5641 | PART II Goetheanism- Whence and Whither? |
| 5641 | Secondly, what roles do the other members of our planetary system play as compared with those of the sun and the moon? |
| 5641 | The question:''How does Anthroposophy explain this or that?'' |
| 5641 | WHERE DO WE STAND TO- DAY? |
| 5641 | We find ourselves faced here with an instance of the problem,''Discovery or Manufacture?'' |
| 5641 | We ought rather to ask:''How does Anthroposophy help us to read more clearly this or that otherwise enigmatical chapter of the script of existence?'' |
| 5641 | What conception of the infant condition of man must have existed in a soul for it to unite these two passages from the Gospels in this way? |
| 5641 | What could be more natural than to take this as evidence that the method of thought developed during the past era of science was on the right course? |
| 5641 | What is it but Ruskin''s''Stand by Form against Force''that Howard is here saying in his own way? |
| 5641 | What is modern man to make of them? |
| 5641 | What prevented him from ranking it side by side with air? |
| 5641 | What reason was there for giving''vapour''the rank of a particular condition of matter? |
| 5641 | What then happens when a so- called''conductor''is brought into such a field? |
| 5641 | What was it, then, which had prevented Wolff from seeing things aright? |
| 5641 | What, then, is the soul''s characteristic relationship to the world around at this stage? |
| 5641 | Where lay the causes of the contradiction thus revealed between human thinking and human doing? |
| 5641 | Where, we must now ask, do we find imponderable essence so much under the sway of gravity that it shows the correspondingly paradoxical features? |
| 5641 | Whither vanishes this force when it leaves the body, and is there any possibility of its revealing itself even without occupying such a body? |
| 5641 | Why was this? |
| 5641 | into the question,''How does colour arise?'' |
| 5641 | that period I pass by; and what have I to do with that of which I can recall no vestige? |
| 5641 | we first ask,''How does electricity arise?'' |