Essays, Aesthetical and Philosophical: Including the Dissertation on the "Connexion Between the Animal and Spiritual in Man,"G. Bell and Sons, 1900 - 435 pages |
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... desire , but desire is egotis- tical and insatiable , while admiration is respectful , and is its own satisfaction without seeking possession . Others have thought the beautiful consists in proportion , and no doubt this is one of the ...
... desire , but desire is egotis- tical and insatiable , while admiration is respectful , and is its own satisfaction without seeking possession . Others have thought the beautiful consists in proportion , and no doubt this is one of the ...
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... desire . The soul experiences something like a godlike felicity and is transported into a sphere remote from the miseries of life . This theory of the beautiful comes very near that of Plato . Secondly , as to beauty in nature ...
... desire . The soul experiences something like a godlike felicity and is transported into a sphere remote from the miseries of life . This theory of the beautiful comes very near that of Plato . Secondly , as to beauty in nature ...
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... desire aspires impatiently to action and facts . But has this innovator examined himself to see if these disorders of the moral world wound his reason , or if they do not rather wound his self - love ? If he does not determine this ...
... desire aspires impatiently to action and facts . But has this innovator examined himself to see if these disorders of the moral world wound his reason , or if they do not rather wound his self - love ? If he does not determine this ...
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... desire , he is nothing more than the world , if by this word we point out only the formless contents of time . Without doubt , it is only his sensuousness that makes his strength pass into effica- cious acts , but it is his personality ...
... desire , he is nothing more than the world , if by this word we point out only the formless contents of time . Without doubt , it is only his sensuousness that makes his strength pass into effica- cious acts , but it is his personality ...
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... desire to - day will form the object of your aversion to - morrow . But when the moral feeling says : " That ought to be , " it decides for ever . If you confess the truth because it is the truth , and if you practise justice because it ...
... desire to - day will form the object of your aversion to - morrow . But when the moral feeling says : " That ought to be , " it decides for ever . If you confess the truth because it is the truth , and if you practise justice because it ...
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