The Infinite, if it is to be conceived at all, must be conceived as potentially everything and actually nothing; for if there is anything in general which it cannot become, it is thereby limited; and if there is anything in particular which it actually... On the Nature and the Existence of God - Page 16by Annie Besant - 1875 - 36 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1859 - 890 pages
...limited ; and if any particular thing which it is, it is thereby excluded from being any other thing. But it must also be conceived as actually everything, and potentially nothing ; for an unrealized potentiality is also a limitation." (p. 71.) " The Infinite cannot be distinguished, as... | |
 | James Oswald Dykes, James Stuart Candlish, Hugh Sinclair Paterson, Joseph Samuel Exell - Theology - 1861 - 994 pages
...particular which it actually is, it is thereby excluded from being any other thing. But again, it must be conceived as actually everything, and potentially...potentiality is likewise a limitation. If the infinite can be that which it is not, it is by that very possibility marked out as incomplete and capable of a higher... | |
 | Henry Longueville Mansel - Knowledge, Theory of - 1866 - 208 pages
...if it were intended to prove another. He cites a passage from Mr. Mansel, in which it is said that " the Infinite, if it is to be conceived at all, must...potentiality is likewise a limitation. If the Infinite can be that which it is not, it is by that very possibility marked out as incomplete, and capable of a higher... | |
 | Henry Longueville Mansel - 1866 - 214 pages
...it were intended to prove another. He cites a passage from Mr. Mansel, in which- it is said that " the Infinite, if it is to be conceived at all, must...potentiality is likewise a limitation. If the Infinite can be that which it is not, it is by that very possibility marked out as incomplete, and capable of a higher... | |
 | Great Britain - 1866 - 690 pages
...if it were intended to prove another. He cites a passage from Mr. Mausel, in which it is said that " the Infinite, if it is to be conceived at all, must...potentiality is likewise a limitation. If the Infinite can be that which it is not, it is by that very possibility marked out as incomplete, and capable of a higher... | |
 | Annie Besant - Free thought - 1884 - 468 pages
...phrases, and think whither they carry us. Dean Mansel is speaking of God as Infinite, and he says : " That a man can be conscious of the Infinite is, then,...potentiality is likewise a limitation. If the infinite can be that which it is not, it is by that very possibility marked out as incomplete and capable of a higher... | |
 | Annie Besant - Religion - 1885 - 178 pages
...phrases, and think whither they carry •us. Dean Mansel is speaking of God as Infinite, and lie says: "That a man can be conscious of the Infinite is, then,...potentiality is likewise a limitation. If the infinite can be that which it is not, it is by that very possibility marked out as incomplete and capable of a higher... | |
 | Annie Besant - Religion - 1885 - 220 pages
...which it actually is, it is thereby excluded from being any other thing. Eut again, it must also bo conceived as actually everything and potentially nothing:...potentiality is likewise a limitation. If the infinite can be that which it is not, it is by that very possibility marked out as incomplete and capable of a higher... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1889 - 700 pages
...at all, must be conceived as potentially everything and " actually nothing; for if there is anything general which <; it cannot become, it is thereby limited...is " likewise a limitation. If the infinite can be that which " it is not, it is by that very possibility marked out as " incomplete, and capable of a... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Utilitarianism - 1900 - 542 pages
...is anything in particular which it actually is, it is thereby excluded from being any other thing.1 It must also be conceived as ' actually everything...unrealised potentiality is likewise a limitation.' Hamilton had put the same argument. ' The infinite is conceived only by thinking away every character... | |
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