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understanding is, to speak generally, the faculty of cognitions. these consist in the determined relation of given representation to an object. but an object is that, in the conception of which the manifold in a given intuition is united. |
since, therefore, to define is to prove either a thing's essential nature or the meaning of its name, we may conclude that definition, if it in no sense proves essential nature, is a set of words signifying precisely what a name signifies. |
another was, that one ought not to try and recollect the exact words and expressions of a discourse, but to fix all one's attention on the arrangement of the arguments, instead of treating it as if it were a piece of boiled meat, or some delicate eatable. |
they have no authority to decide the question for all mankind, and exclude every other person from the means of judging. |
the fiends below. here, for the gods' advice, latinus flies, off'ring a hundred sheep for sacrifice: their woolly fleeces, as the rites requir'd, he laid beneath him, and to rest retir'd. |
thirty six. accordingly histiaios with this intention was sending the messenger; and it chanced that all these things happened to aristagoras together at the same time. |
like a tree in flower, so much soft, budding, informing loveliness is society for itself; and she teaches his eye why beauty was pictured with loves and graces attending her steps. her existence makes the world rich. |
thus the athenian army was all now in flight; and such as escaped being killed in the battle, or by the chalcidian horse and the targeteers, dispersed among the hills, and with difficulty made their way to eion. |
no wonder that mankind have been in the habit of calling statesmen of this class pedants, sophisters, doctrinaires, visionaries. |
to it: "you would not offer," said he, "to persuade me to this, had you seen the fine order of the trees i have planted in my orchard, and the fair melons i have sown in my garden." |
twenty one. there is therefore nothing great or noble in anger, even when it seems to be powerful and to contemn both gods and men alike. |
now there are many sorts of madness, some arising out of disease, which we have already mentioned; and there are other kinds, which originate in an evil and passionate temperament, and are increased by bad education; out of a slight quarrel this class of |
there is then in all persons a natural impetus to associate with each other in this manner, and he who first founded civil society was the cause of the greatest good; for as by the completion of it man is the most excellent of all living beings, so |
athenian: let us say to the youth: the ruler of the universe has ordered all things with a view to the excellence and preservation of the whole, and each part, as far as may be, has an action and passion appropriate to it. |
utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men, neither common-wealth, nor society, nor contract, nor peace, no more than amongst lyons, bears, and wolves. |
these are the effects of custom; she can mould us, not only into what form she pleases (the sages say we ought to apply ourselves to the best, which she will soon make easy to us), but also to change and variation, which is the most noble and most useful |
on the capitoline, on which there were at one period from five-and-twenty to thirty temples, besides private dwellings. |
for riding out from the rest of the army, and in the charge receiving a wound in his thigh, he for all that did not quit the fight, but, letting the dart drag in the wound, and engaging with the bravest of the enemy, put them to flight; for which action, |
it. for even they knew nothing of the victory, till they heard the cries of the men and lamentations of the women who were in the town, and had from thence seen the romans at a distance carrying into their camp a great quantity of bucklers, adorned with |
and with those who listen to stories about us or keep on looking at our weaknesses; this seems like either slighting us or hating us; for those who love us share in all our distresses and it must distress any one to keep on looking at his own weaknesses. |
now i will on another subject touch, and lead the way. |
you were present twenty seven with the rest of us now here when, after the death of cyrus, the king, vaunting himself on that occurrence, sent dictatorially to bid us lay down our arms. |
desired to live long, or over-studious of neatness, and elegancy; and yet not as one that did not regard it: so that through his own care and providence, he seldom needed any inward physic, or outward applications: but especially how ingeniously he would |
agricola, in the meantime, had delivered the province, in peace and security, to his successor; one hundred thirty two and lest his entry into the city should be rendered too conspicuous by the concourse and acclamations of the people, he declined the |
as to their king, since he was fain to beg, he must be necessitous and poor; and he who had made him this gift, must be a man who loved dissension, to give that to another which was none of his own, to bring it into dispute against the ancient possessors. |
perhaps enough has been said about the proof of necessity, how it comes about and how it differs from the proof of a simple statement. we proceed to discuss that which is possible, when and how and by what means it can be proved. |
above all, as i have implied, the man who goes alone can start to-day; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off. |
we answer that everything which has not matter is indivisible-as human thought, or rather the thought of composite beings, is in a certain period of time (for it does not possess the good at this moment or at that, but its best, being something different |
to deal fairly with a fool tis in some sort a kind of dying to avoid the pain of living well tis more laudable to obey the bad than the good tis no matter; it may be of use to some others tis not the cause, but their interest, that inflames them tis not |
socrates: then, if you approve the question, gorgias, what is the answer? |
the market-place was quite emptied, and antony at last was left alone sitting upon the tribunal; while the word went through all the multitude, that venus was come to feast with bacchus, for the common good of asia. |
lycurgus was of another mind; he would not have masters bought out of the market for his young spartans, nor such as should sell their pains; nor was it lawful, indeed, for the father himself to breed up the children after his own fancy; but as soon as |
an unclean spirit; for perversenesse, a froward spirit; for sullennesse, a dumb spirit, and for inclination to godlinesse, and gods service, the spirit of god: sometimes for any eminent ability, or extraordinary passion, or disease of the mind, as when |
all these are the words of those who are turning themselves to things which are not within the power of the will. for who says, how shall i not assent to that which is false? how shall i not turn away from the truth? |
that their occurrence is a matter of necessity. for that of which someone has said truly that it will be, cannot fail to take place; and of that which takes place, it was always true to say that it would be. |
are not so. for if those who gave the advice, and those who took it, suffered equally, you would judge more calmly; as it is, you visit the disasters into which the whim of the moment may have led you upon the single person of your adviser, not upon |
he had encamped his army and was about to lay waste the country, when the plataeans hastened to send envoys to him, and spoke as follows: "archidamus and lacedaemonians, in invading the plataean territory, you do what is wrong in itself, and worthy |
one hundred forty freedmen are little superior to slaves; seldom filling any important office in the family; never in the state, except in those tribes which are under regal government. |
the state is no ideal work of art: it stands in the everyday world, in the sphere, that is, of arbitrary act, accident, and error, and a variety of faults may mar the regularity of its traits. |
when all these men's wants were supplied in a manner which rendered them a source of additional honour? poverty, when such men as these plead its cause, is not only harmless, but positively attractive. |
also with regard to anger and terror, and the other perturbations of the soul, which arise out of misfortune, and the deliverances from them which prosperity brings, and the experiences which come to men in diseases, or in war, or poverty, or the opposite |
in answer to which i say, first, that it seems no less absurd to suppose a substance without accidents, than it is to suppose accidents without a substance. |
might be answered, 'because it is not an animal'; but that answer would not give the strict cause, because if not being an animal causes the absence of respiration, then being an animal should be the cause of respiration, according to the rule that if the |
the sterile soil would at least have been proof against a low-land degeneracy. alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape! |
walden pond of their own natures, and baited their hooks with darkness,-but they soon retreated, usually with light baskets, and left "the world to darkness and to me," and the black kernel of the night was never profaned by any human neighborhood. |
chapter three of the ground of the division of all objects into phenomena and noumena |
"learn the philosophy of business, and acquire the reputation of wisdom. but leave to others these niceties," |
you may even tread on them, or have your eyes on them for a minute, without discovering them. |
had your brother fallen before numantia, the enemy would have given back what then had remained of tiberius; but such is my hard fate, that i probably must be an humble suppliant to the floods or the waves, that they would somewhere restore to me your |
for capacity, and what is capable or productive of anything, is always desirable for the sake of something else. |
socrates: excellent, my boys; i think that you fully justify the praises of theodorus, and that he will not be found guilty of false witness. |
athenian: nor are they like generals, or physicians, or husbandmen, or shepherds; and no one would compare them to dogs who have been silenced by wolves. |
on that day, all the scauri, and metelli, and claudii, and catuli, and scaevolae, and crassi took arms. do you think either those consuls or those other most illustrious men deserving of blame? i myself wished catiline to perish. |
speaking, as being more business-like and effective in actual use. |
by the way, and is to retain its power and virtue through all those turns and meanders, even to the place to the service of which it is designed, by its own occult property this will dry-the brain; that will moisten the lungs. |
nay, get ye gone, ye sirens, whose sweetness lasteth not; leave him for my muses to tend and heal!' at these words of upbraiding, the whole band, in deepened sadness, with downcast eyes, and blushes that confessed their shame, dolefully left the chamber. |
branded the wretch, and be his name abhorr'd; but after ages shall thy praise record. th' inglorious coward soon shall press the plain: thus vows thy queen, and thus the fates ordain." |
socrates: and does not he who thinks some one thing, think something which is? |
and, as has been said before, after the proper honours have been paid to me, and after provision has been made for the execution of my will as far as relates to the temple, and the monument, and the garden, and the promenade, then i enjoin that pamphylus, |
sabines, and cherish his own father in his old age; and tatia, also, preferred the private condition of her husband before the honors and splendor she might have enjoyed with her father. |
the people) employed contrary to the end for which it was given: if the people shall find the ministers and subordinate magistrates chosen suitable to such ends, and favoured, or laid by, proportionably as they promote or oppose them: if they see several |
let us for a moment then take ourselves as being on this side of the vast space which must lie between a pure state of nature and that in which languages had become necessary, and, admitting their necessity, let us inquire how they could first be |
being under the genus 'animal', while the other pair have that of differentiae of the genus, viz. of 'animal'. |
for so the system of arguing will be more clear, when it can be at once applied both to the general classification and to the particular instance. |
does not this condition alone, in the absence of equivalence or exchange, in itself involve the nullity of the act? |
and the last kind is when a man is himself noble in his spirit, and magnanimous. for that man also we call noble, and this is the last kind of nobility. |
the prisoners in the quarries were at first hardly treated by the syracusans. |
one prayeth that he may compass his desire, to lie with such or such a one, pray thou that thou mayst not lust to lie with her. |
if taken more widely as the science of thought-form, it is supposed to imply a world of fixed or stereotyped relations between ideas, a system of stable thoughts governed by inflexible laws in an absolute order of immemorial or eternal truth. |
petrus). our saviour therefore after the confession of that fundamentall article, alluding to his name, said (as if it were in english) thus, thou art "stone," and upon this stone i will build my church: which is as much as to say, this article, that "i |
or (two) rather, because he is not his own property, but a possession of the gods, and has no right to make away with that which does not belong to him. but why, asks cebes, if he is a possession of the gods, should he wish to die and leave them? |
nec, si materiam nostram collegerit tas post obitum, rursumque redegerit, ut sita nunc est, atque iterum nobis fuerint data lumina vit, pertineat quidquam tamen ad nos id quoque factum, interrupta semel cum sit repetentia nostra. |
"you are sleeping, son of atreus; one who has the welfare of his host and so much other care upon his shoulders should dock his sleep. |
conditions; far less, in rome's most glorious height of power, should a robber like tacfarinas be bought off by peace and concessions of territory." |
contrary way: he called it a miracle, and so i look upon it, but in a different sense. |
three shining nights, and three succeeding days, the fields resound with shouts, the streets with praise, the domes with songs, the theatres with plays. all altars flame: before each altar lies, drench'd in his gore, the destin'd sacrifice. |
necessity be possessed of one of its species or be described by terms derived from one of its species (e.g. |
when night hath past, the bright dawn comes in car of rosy hue; so drive the false bliss from thy mind, and thou shall see the true. |
they had no wine with which to make drink-offerings over the sacrifice while it was cooking, so they kept pouring on a little water from time to time while the inward meats were being grilled; then, when the thigh bones were burned and they had tasted the |
got there, he would provide them with meat and drink enough and to spare. while they were still listening to this tale, the return message from anaxibius came. |
to-morrow, fell back upon to-day (which has outlasted so many to-morrows!) as the only ground he had got to stand upon, however momentarily slipping from under his feet. |
as to what remains, i honour physicians, not according to the precept for their necessity (for to this passage may be opposed another of the prophet reproving king asa for having recourse to a physician), but for themselves, having known many very good |
by moral qualities i mean virtues and vices; these also have been discussed already, as well as the various things that various types of men tend to will and to do. by ages i mean youth, the prime of life, and old age. |
forty eight. death subdues a man who is gathering flowers, and whose mind is distracted, before he is satiated in his pleasures. |
literally, "releases the spring" (see five. fifteen), that is, takes some decisive step which makes it impossible for the army to return-like hsiang yu, who sunk his ships after crossing a river. |
we must not, therefore, start from any and every accepted opinion, but only from those we have defined-those accepted by our judges or by those whose authority they recognize: and there must, moreover, be no doubt in the minds of most, if not all, of our |
they relate to a subject of which plato himself would have said that 'he was not confident of the precise form of his own statements, but was strong in the belief that something of the kind was true.' |
it is the spirit which not merely broods over history as over the waters, but lives in it and is alone its principle of movement: and in the path of that spirit, liberty, i.e. |
and yet it may be urged on the other side that an author whose original powers are beginning to decay will be very liable to repeat himself, as in conversation, so in books. |
considered in respect of this alone, as a principle of explanation, it may be called a hypothesis, but in reference to the intelligibility of an object given us by the moral law (the summum bonum), and consequently of a requirement for practical purposes, |
of reason and justice, deduced from the love of order in general, or the known will of his creator; in a word, were we to suppose him as intelligent and enlightened, as he must have been, and is in fact found to have been, dull and stupid, what advantage |
for there are people who in opposite circumstances do not act consistently: they have the utmost contempt for pleasure, but in pain they are too sensitive; they are indifferent to glory, but they are crushed by disgrace; and even in their inconsistency |
the conception of action indicates the relation of the subject of causality to the effect. |
he told them to wait quietly, to pay attention to their marine, to attempt no new conquests, and to expose the city to no hazards during the war, and doing this, promised them a favourable result. |
the effect of custom, in preventing any misgiving respecting the rules of conduct which mankind impose on one another, is all the more complete because the subject is one on which it is not generally considered necessary that reasons should be given, |
but if one term is affirmative, the other negative, and if the affirmative is universal, a syllogism will be possible whenever the minor term is affirmative. |
the angells, and are the children of god, being the children of the resurrection:" the children of this world, that are in the estate which adam left them in, shall marry, and be given in marriage; that is corrupt, and generate successively; which is an |
but that this is a false way of judging, when applied to the happiness of another life, they must confess; unless they will say, god cannot make those happy he designs to be so. |
if we except sparta, where the laws were mainly concerned with the education of children, and where lycurgus established such morality as practically made laws needless--for laws as a rule, being weaker than the passions, restrain men without altering |
suddenly an unmistakable cat-owl from very near me, with the most harsh and tremendous voice i ever heard from any inhabitant of the woods, responded at regular intervals to the goose, as if determined to expose and disgrace this intruder from hudson's |
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