A History of English Philosophy

Portada
The University Press, 1920 - 380 páginas

Dentro del libro

Otras ediciones - Ver todo

Términos y frases comunes

Pasajes populares

Página 275 - That principle is that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection.
Página 178 - Here is a kind of attraction which in the mental world will be found to have as extraordinary effects as in the natural, and to show itself in as many and as various forms.
Página 121 - I have said, not imagining how these simple ideas can subsist by themselves, we accustom ourselves to suppose some substratum wherein they do subsist, and from which they do result; which therefore we call substance.
Página 170 - I passed through the ordinary course of education with success, and was seized very early with a passion for literature, which has been the ruling passion of my life, and the great source of my enjoyments.
Página 30 - The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding; so that all those specious meditations, speculations, and glosses in which men indulge are quite from the purpose, only there is no one by to observe it.
Página 144 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind, that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, to wit, that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
Página 213 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Página 184 - For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception.
Página 115 - Since it is the understanding that sets man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives him all the advantage and dominion which he has over them; it is certainly a subject, even for its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire into.
Página 141 - all other things are not so much existences as manners of the existence of persons.' He knows that ' a mighty sect of men will oppose me,' that he will be called young, an upstart, a pretender, vain ; but his confidence is not shaken : ' Newton begs his principles ; I demonstrate mine.' He did not, at first, reveal the whole truth to the world. An Essay towards a new theory of vision deals with one point only — the relation between the objects of sight and those of touch. Molyneux had once set...

Información bibliográfica