Man's Moral Nature: An EssayTrübner & Company, 1879 - 200 pagine |
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Pagina 174 - I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.
Pagina 104 - Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.
Pagina 114 - Mein Freund, die Zeiten der Vergangenheit Sind uns ein Buch mit sieben Siegeln; Was ihr den Geist der Zeiten heißt, Das ist im Grund der Herren eigner Geist, In dem die Zeiten sich bespiegeln.
Pagina 153 - If you divide suffering and dross, you may Diminish till it is consumed away ; If you divide pleasure and love and thought, Each part exceeds the whole ; and we know not How much, while any yet remains unshared, Of pleasure may be gained, of sorrow spared.
Pagina 68 - Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit ; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
Pagina 143 - it is not too much to say ; that the horrible dread of unknown evil hangs like a thick , cloud over savage life, and embitters every pleasure." These miserable and indirect consequences of our highest faculties may be compared with the incidental and occasional mistakes of the instincts of the lower animals.
Pagina 87 - ... without any warning or visible cause, one of these attacks of terror comes on. The first thing the man feels is great but vague discomfort. Then he notices that his heart is beating much too violently. At the same time shocks or flashes as of electrical discharges, so violent as to be almost painful, pass one after another through his body and limbs. Then in a few minutes he falls into a condition of the most intense fear. He is not afraid of anything ; he is simply afraid. His mind is perfectly...
Pagina 7 - ... intensity of emotional and intellectual action going on at the same time, as we should think must necessarily be the case if these two were functions of one and the same part of the brain. In any given individual the intellect may be highly developed, and the passions and emotions very ill developed, or the reverse ; so that we often see clever men with bad hearts, and men with excellent moral qualities who are very stupid.
Pagina 37 - ... complicated organ. The great sympathetic consists in the first place of a double chain of ganglia, over fifty in number, extending from the base of the brain, along the sides of the spinal column, to the coccyx...