 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, — as if there were something...  Everybody Ahead: Or, Getting the Most Out of Life - Page 291by Orison Swett Marden - 1916 - 535 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William James - Belief and doubt - 1896 - 374 pages
...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, — as if there were...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... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1896 - 802 pages
...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 ; as if there were...something really wild in the Universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem." One of the most amusing papers in Schopenhauer's... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - Literature - 1896 - 388 pages
...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 ; as if there were...something really wild in the Universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem." One of the most amusing papers in Th,... | |
 | William James - Belief and doubt - 1896 - 360 pages
...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, — as if there were...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... | |
 | William James - Belief and doubt - 1896 - 364 pages
...of private theatricals from which 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 and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem; and first of all to redeem our own... | |
 | William James - Life - 1896 - 82 pages
...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... | |
 | Volney Streamer - Religious poetry - 1897 - 248 pages
...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 — as if there were...something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, were needed to redeem ; and first of all to redeem our own hearts... | |
 | Volney Streamer - Religious poetry - 1897 - 248 pages
...game of private theatricals from which 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 faithfulnesses, were needed to redeem ; and first of all to redeem our own hearts... | |
 | 1917 - 714 pages
...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 — as if there were...something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are indeed to redeem. . . . God himself, in short, may draw... | |
 | Ethics - 1905 - 352 pages
...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; as if there were 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... | |
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