Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind, Volumen 2Baldwin and Cradock, 1829 |
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Página 270 - When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm...
Página 270 - Persons of delicate fibres, and a weak constitution of body, complain that in looking on the sores and ulcers which are exposed by beggars in the streets, they are apt to feel an itching or uneasy sensation in the correspondent part of their own bodies.
Página 115 - There is nothing appears so clearly an object of the mind or intellect only as the future does, since we can find no place for its existence any where else : not but the same, if we consider, is equally true of the past " "Well, co on — What stops the plockit?
Página 176 - When Mr. Mill comes to the case of family, he says, " The group, which consists of a father, mother, and children, is called a family. The associations which each member of this group has of his pains and pleasures, with the pains and pleasures of the other members, constitute some of the most interesting states of human consciousness. " The affection of the husband and wife is, in its origin, that of two persons of different sex, and needs not be farther analysed. To this source of pleasurable association...
Página 175 - The idea of a man enjoying a train of pleasures, or happiness, is felt by every body to be a pleasurable idea. The idea of a man under a train of sufferings or pains is equally felt to be a painful idea. This can arise from nothing but the association of our own pleasures with the first idea, and of our own pains with the second. We never feel any pains arid pleasures but our own.
Página 171 - In contemplating them with the satisfaction with which powerful causes of pleasure are contemplated, we seldom fail to include the comparison. And the state of consciousness, formed by the contemplation and comparison taken together, is...
Página 211 - Pleasure is associated with an action of our own as its cause; that is, contemplated as the consequent of an action of ours, and incapable of otherwise existing...
Página 196 - ... in our minds. That this is in reality the case, and that it is not the sounds themselves which have this effect, appears to be obvious from the two following considerations. 1. When we have no associations of this kind, such sounds are productive of no such emotion. There is not one of these sounds which may not be imitated in some manner or other ; and which, while we are ignorant of the deception, does not produce the same emotion with the real sound : when we are undeceived, however, we are...
Página 151 - Idea of a pleasure,' expresses precisely the same thing as the term, Desire. It does so by the very import of the words. The idea of a pleasure, is the idea of something as good to have.
Página 199 - ... and to feel from it when separated, some degree of the same emotion which is properly excited by the object itself. Instances of this kind are within every person's observation. White, as it is the colour of day, is expressive to us of the cheerfulness or gaiety which the return of day brings. Black, as the colour of darkness, is expressive of gloom and melancholy.