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Términos y frases comunes
1st Series absolute unity abstract action analysis appearance Aristotle arrive atheism authority beauty Behold belongs Bhagavad-Gita Brucker Cartesian cause character Christianity civilization Colebrook commence comprehend conceive Condillac consciousness consequently Descartes divine eighteenth century elements of human entire Epicurus epoch error eternal Europe exclusive existence fact faith feeble finite France Greece Greek philosophy harmony Hence history of philosophy human mind human nature human race human reason idea idealism India infinite intelligence Ionian school Kant Kapila laws Lecture less liberty losophy Malebranche manifest ment metaphysics method middle age modern philosophy moral movement mysticism nation necessary Nyaya pantheism peripateticism phenomena philoso Plato political primitive principle produced reflection relation religion religious represent result revolution Sankhya scholasticism sensation sensualism seventeenth skepticism Socrates soul speak spirit Stoicism synthesis theodicea thing thought tion true truth Vedas virtue
Pasajes populares
Página 112 - ... so far as he is substance, that is to say, being absolute cause, one and many, eternity and time, space and number, essence and life, indivisibility and totality, principle, end and centre, at the summit of Being and at its lowest degree, infinite and finite...
Página 149 - Men under this partial and exclusive development, are but fragments of that humanity which can only be fully realized in the harmonious evolution of all its principles. What Reflection is to the individual, History is to the human race. The difference of an epoch consists exclusively in the partial development of some one element of intelligence in a prominent portion of mankind ; and as there are only three such elements, so there are only three grand epochs in the history of man. A knowledge of...
Página 9 - Two thousand auditors listened in admiration to the eloquent exposition of doctrines unintelligible to the many, and the oral discussion of philosophy awakened in Paris, and in France, an interest unexampled since the days of Abelard. The daily journals found it necessary to gratify, by their earlier...
Página 449 - System, of the Church, the Affranchisement of the Cities, the commencement of Intellectual progress in Europe, the signification of the Reformation, are among the topics luminously explained by the powerful talent of M. Guizot. France has produced, within late years, some remarkable historians and Appleton &, Co.
Página 35 - When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East, above all, those of India which are beginning to spread in Europe, we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which the European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.
Página 74 - ... element of intelligence in a prominent portion of mankind ; and as there are only three such elements, so there are only three grand epochs in the history of man. A knowledge of the elements of reason, of their relations and of their laws, constitutes not merely Philosophy, but is the condition of a History of Philosophy.
Página 331 - True philosophy is that which is the faithful echo of the voice of the world, which is written in some sort under the dictation of things, which adds nothing of itself, which is only the rebound, the reflection of reality.
Página 160 - This necessity, which the vulgar accuse, which they confound with external and physical fatality, and by which they designate and disfigure the divine Wisdom, applied to the world, this necessity is the unanswerable demonstration of the intervention of Providence in human affairs, the demonstration of a moral government of the world. Great events are the decrees of this government, promulgated by the voice of time. History is the manifestation of God's supervision of humanity ; the judgments of history...
Página 105 - ... indefinite manifestations, which reveal it, and which veil it; and, further, as it has been said, it comprehends it so far as incomprehensible. It is, therefore, an equal error to call God absolutely comprehensible, and absolutely incomprehensible. He is both invisible and present, revealed and withdrawn in himself, in the world and out of the world, so familiar and intimate with his creatures, that we see him by opening our eyes, that we feel him in feeling our hearts beat, and at the same time...
Página 35 - When we read the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East, — above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe — we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which...