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abides æsthetic affirm appear arbitrary Arcachon basin believe Bilbao bull-fight called Castilian Christ civil conceptist consciousness consolation crusade culture death despair Don Quixote doubt dream Dulcinea El Greco endeavour Ensayos eternal everything exist faith feel felt fight flesh and bone Fuerteventura give gongorism Guerra Junqueiro hate hear heart helmet hope human idea immortality individual intellectual kabylism kind lack live logic López madness Maquetas means Miguel de Unamuno mind modern European mystic never night once ourselves Pan-pipe passion Paul of Tarsus peace perhaps philosophy problem psychical question rational reason religion resign ridicule Salamanca Sancho scepticism sea of souls seek sepulchre singing social solitude song soul Spain Spaniards Spanish speak spirit talk tell thing thought tion to-day tower of Monterrey tragedy Translated truth Unamuno understand Universe voice whole wisdom wish words writing
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Page 181 - But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him ? But we have the mind of Christ.
Page 181 - And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat : for hitherto ye were not able to bear it. Neither yet now are ye able.
Page 181 - For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
Page 75 - For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet disproven: wherefore thou be wise, Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith! She reels not in the storm of warring words, She brightens at the clash of 'Yes
Page 182 - Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God ; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth ; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Page 201 - Ask Solon. There is something which, for lack of a better name, we will call the tragic sense of life, which carries with it a whole conception of life itself and of the universe, a whole philosophy more or less formulated, more or less conscious. And this sense may be possessed, and is possessed, not only by individual men but by whole peoples. And this sense does not so much flow from ideas as determine them, even though afterwards, as is manifest, these ideas react upon it and confirm it. Sometimes...
Page 193 - the human" nor "humanity," neither the simple adjective nor the substantivized adjective, but the concrete substantive — man. The man of flesh and bone; the man who is born, suffers, and dies — above all, who dies; the man who eats and drinks and plays and sleeps and thinks and wills; the man who is seen and heard; the brother, the real brother.
Page 56 - A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death, but of life .... 237 Prop.
Page 193 - A man neither of here nor there, neither of this age nor of another, who has neither sex nor country, who is, in brief, merely an idea. That is to say, a no-man.
Page 221 - ... the three angles of a triangle are together equal to two right angles, although it is not known to all.