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... emotional life of one's own where alone one's very central interest of life could be found , and from where alone the most graceful way of self - expression , either in deeds or in mental communications , as one's natural and necessary ...
... emotional life of one's own where alone one's very central interest of life could be found , and from where alone the most graceful way of self - expression , either in deeds or in mental communications , as one's natural and necessary ...
Page 107
... emotion in connection with will and intellect . If we take will as somehow different from emotion , we do so by assigning to the former 107 PRIDE AND LOVE.
... emotion in connection with will and intellect . If we take will as somehow different from emotion , we do so by assigning to the former 107 PRIDE AND LOVE.
Page 108
... emotion , and the frontal lamp of which is intellect . In this case will is rather represented as a power or energy which is not far removed from an external or ... emotion . Emotion is most central . 108 PRINCIPLES OF THE MORAL EMPIRE.
... emotion , and the frontal lamp of which is intellect . In this case will is rather represented as a power or energy which is not far removed from an external or ... emotion . Emotion is most central . 108 PRINCIPLES OF THE MORAL EMPIRE.
Page 109
Kōjirō Sugimori. development of the emotion . Emotion is most central . Had it not been for emotion , there could not have been any will but only mechanical force . On the other hand , how- ever , emotion would be helpless and would ...
Kōjirō Sugimori. development of the emotion . Emotion is most central . Had it not been for emotion , there could not have been any will but only mechanical force . On the other hand , how- ever , emotion would be helpless and would ...
Page 111
... emotion as end - value , it has still , on the whole , so stupendously intensified and em- powered the improving agency of the world , i.e. the self . Moreover , there can be an excuse for modern voluntarism having rather overrun the ...
... emotion as end - value , it has still , on the whole , so stupendously intensified and em- powered the improving agency of the world , i.e. the self . Moreover , there can be an excuse for modern voluntarism having rather overrun the ...
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Page 150 - Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea, it shall be done. And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Page 173 - ... from duty; and if men are no longer forced to obey, obligation is at an end. We see, then, that this word right adds nothing to force; it here means nothing at all. Obey the powers that be. If that means, Yield to force, the precept is good but superfluous; I reply that it will never be violated. All power comes from God, I admit; but every disease comes from him too; does it follow that we are prohibited from calling in a physician?
Page 5 - So are the inner and the outer world, pride and love, individualism and collectivism. To mention a few more, nations are gods, and classes are gods. It is natural for us to reduce all these dualistic and pluralistic gods to one God. This natural reduction, however, is only possible by means of synthetic creation. A new God fashioned from the substance of all existing gods is the thing which we now badly want.
Page 6 - The divine spark in the form of a metaphysical pride, which consists in a boundless self-respect and self-responsibility, as well as an infinite faith in our own power or creative possibility, is the light that illuminates the world.
Page 71 - But if he, with a trifle less strength of will, lively imagination, and enterprise, had combined a little more of that despised thing called heart and sense of duty, should we not now be chief among the nations of the earth...
Page 79 - ... render therefore unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's...
Page 19 - Nationalism no less than inter18 nationalism is and ought to be more intelligently founded on the sole basis of personalism. Know thyself is once again what we have to realise.
Page 6 - Moral and theological reform, each of them pregnant with social reform, these are the things which this volume intends to convey.
Page 240 - Are not nations gods on their own account ? Are not classes another set of gods also on their own account...
Page 229 - Even a pet dog is sometimes dearer to us than some of our compatriots are.