 | 1923 - 574 pagine
...mean, if they mean anything short of this." Life, then, is not aimless, but "a real fight", — with "something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses are needed to redeem ; and first of all to redeem our own hearts from atheisms and fears. . . ." It is... | |
 | William James - 1896 - 374 pagine
...not know what the sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean, if they mean anything short of this. If this life be not a real fight, in which something...we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem ; and first of all to redeem our own hearts from atheisms and fears. For such a half-wild,... | |
 | William James - 1896 - 360 pagine
...know what the sweat and \ blood and tragedy of this life mean, if they mean anyHhing short of this. If this life be not a real fight, in which something...we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem ; and first of all to redeem our own hearts from atheisms and fears. For such a half-wild,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1896 - 802 pagine
...not know what the sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean, if they mean anything short of this. If this life be not a real fight in which something...we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem." One of the most amusing papers in Schopenhauer's "Nachlass" is devoted to a series... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1896 - 388 pagine
...not know what the sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean, if they mean anything short of this. If this life be not a real fight in which something...we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem." One of the most amusing papers in Th, Eun,tgriffe Schopenhauer's » Nachläse "... | |
 | William James - 1896 - 394 pagine
...not know what the sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean, if they mean anything short of this. If this life be not a real fight, in which something...something / really wild in the universe which we, with all ouride-/ alities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem ; and first of all to redeem our own hearts... | |
 | William James - 1896 - 364 pagine
...not know what the sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean, if they mean anything short of this. If this life be not a real fight, in which something...one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real, figjat,.;— as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our ide- ialities... | |
 | William James - 1896 - 82 pagine
...than a game of private theatricals from .which one «jay.with draw at will. But it/eels _like a £eal fight; as if there were something really wild in the Universe which we, with,all our idealities.andfaiihjfulnesses, are needed to redeem. And first of all to redeem our own... | |
 | John Stuart Mackenzie - 1897 - 484 pagine
...intelligible system. In a stirring article entitled "Is Life worth Living?" Professor James remarks — "If this life be not a real fight, in which something...may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight ; " and he concludes by urging that our attitude on this matter is necessarily one of faith. "Believe,"... | |
 | Volney Streamer - 1897 - 248 pagine
...not know what the sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean, if they mean anything short of this. If this life be not a real fight, in which something...one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight—as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and... | |
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If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the Universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight... 
