Mentality and FreedomNation Press, Incorporated, 1917 - Всего страниц: 258 |
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... reality blurred and out of focus . The whirl of existence produces not even the hysterical asceticism of the fanatical whirling and howling dervish , but rather the empty - headedness and dizziness of an abused , 14 MENTALITY AND FREEDOM.
... reality blurred and out of focus . The whirl of existence produces not even the hysterical asceticism of the fanatical whirling and howling dervish , but rather the empty - headedness and dizziness of an abused , 14 MENTALITY AND FREEDOM.
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... " go no farther , but sit down and waste their lives shamefully there as if among the sirens . " A waste of purpose , motive and direction in life is what makes existence on this planet so uninterest- ing , MENTALITY AND FREEDOM 19.
... " go no farther , but sit down and waste their lives shamefully there as if among the sirens . " A waste of purpose , motive and direction in life is what makes existence on this planet so uninterest- ing , MENTALITY AND FREEDOM 19.
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... existence on the other ? " Better to fail in the high aim than Vulgarly in the low aim succeed . " The human brain is like an apartment with many rooms . Some men live in one or two rooms of their brain , and seldom use or even enter ...
... existence on the other ? " Better to fail in the high aim than Vulgarly in the low aim succeed . " The human brain is like an apartment with many rooms . Some men live in one or two rooms of their brain , and seldom use or even enter ...
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... existence . If man had control of his entire brain plant , i . e . , the central power house , and all sub - stations , even if he had the power to delegate certain duties to the sub - conscious brain during the hours that he devoted to ...
... existence . If man had control of his entire brain plant , i . e . , the central power house , and all sub - stations , even if he had the power to delegate certain duties to the sub - conscious brain during the hours that he devoted to ...
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... existence and , as Huxley said , " He stands as on a mountain top transfigured from his lower nature , by reflecting here and there a ray from the infinite source of truth . " Brains are bequeathed to man at birth . A cham- ber filled ...
... existence and , as Huxley said , " He stands as on a mountain top transfigured from his lower nature , by reflecting here and there a ray from the infinite source of truth . " Brains are bequeathed to man at birth . A cham- ber filled ...
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Стр. 216 - THE HAPPY WARRIOR. WHO is the happy Warrior ? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be ? — It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought...
Стр. 107 - Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of every one of us would, one day or other, depend upon his winning or losing a game at chess. Don't you think that we should all consider it to be a primary duty to learn at least the names and the moves of the pieces ; to have a notion of a gambit, and a keen eye for all the means of giving and getting out of check? Do you not think that we should look with...
Стр. 217 - Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means, and there will stand On honourable terms, or else retire And in himself possess his own desire; Who comprehends his trust and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim...
Стр. 162 - Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, "Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull.
Стр. 89 - It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
Стр. 107 - Yet it is a very plain and elementary truth, that the life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game 192 infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess.
Стр. 134 - For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.
Стр. 107 - The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature.
Стр. 11 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused.
Стр. 133 - Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.' CHAP. XVI. The Master said, The study of strange doctrines is injurious indeed!' CHAP. XVII. The Master said, 'Yu, shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it;— this is knowledge.