An Enquiry Into Human NatureSutherland & Knox, 1853 - 228 страница |
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Страница 70 - It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean; it is well he knows that it is long enough to reach the bottom at such places as are necessary to direct his voyage, and caution him against running upon shoals that may ruin him. Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.
Страница 69 - When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success : and when we have well surveyed the powers of our own minds, and made some estimate what we may expect from them, we shall not...
Страница 208 - I have learned more from your writings in this kind than from all others put together. Your system appears to me not only coherent in all its parts, but likewise justly deduced from principles commonly received among philosophers; principles which I never thought of calling in question until the conclusions you draw from them in the Treatise of Human Nature made me suspect them.
Страница 69 - ... better know what to undertake with hopes of success; and when we have well surveyed the powers of our own minds, and made some estimate what we may expect from them, we shall not be inclined either to sit still, and not set our thoughts on work at all, in despair of knowing any thing; or, on the other side, question every thing, and disclaim all knowledge, because some things are not to be understood.
Страница 211 - The history of philosophy presents a singular spectacle ; a certain number of problems are reproduced at every epoch ; each of these problems suggests a certain number of solutions, always the same ; philosophers are divided ; discussion is set on foot ; every opinion is attacked and defended, with equal appearance of truth. Humanity listens in silence, adopts the opinion of no one, but preserves its own, which is what is called Common Sense.
Страница 229 - The work is of the compact, thoughtelevating complexion which men do not willingly let die ; and we promise such of our readers as may possess themselves of it, much entertainment and instruction of a high order, and a fund of solid thought which they will not soon exhaust.
Страница 208 - I never thought of calling in question, until the conclusions you draw from them in the " Treatise of Human Nature " made me suspect them. If these principles are solid, your system must stand ; and whether they are or not, can better be judged after you have brought to light the whole system that grows out of them, than when the greater part of it was wrapped up in clouds and darkness. I agree with you, therefore, that if this system shall ever be demolished, you have a just claim to a great share...
Страница 208 - that the parsons would confine themselves to their old occupation of worrying one another, and leave philosophers to argue with temper, moderation, and good manners.
Страница 33 - ... it usually does everywhere, its first love into all its after thoughts, shuts up the student surreptitiously with materialism as his philosophy. Thus it is easy to see how materialism should come to be a current opinion, when the popular education runs all in favour of physical pursuits. But if philosophy must yield to the demands of the logical faculty for an extreme simplicity, unity, identity, at the fountain-head of nature, it were more logical to regard those phenomena and laws named physical,...
Страница 212 - ... Do they not contain, in their germs at least, all the questions of logic, metaphysics, morals, politics, and religion ? Common sense therefore is nothing but a collection of solutions to those questions which philosophers agitate. It is another philosophy prior to philosophy properly so called ; since it is found spontaneously at the bottom of every consciousness, independently of all scientific research. There are accordingly two votes on the questions which interest humanity, namely, that of...