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...it fortunate to live there. She found it somewhat comforting that the murky morality of such engagements was debated by senators and talk show hosts... ...ood. It was her belief that physical prostitution was less of a deleterious moral injustice to oneself than any other kind. Done with a condom, its p... ...ing extraordinarily advante garde would happen to him here. Maybe she had a moral obligation to take care of one whom she had brought into the world ... ... be the unnatural one: and yet, paradoxically, monogamy had become a revered moral code of conduct. It was no wonder, she thought to herself, that pe... ...I don't know." "Was it right?" "I don't know." It was a cold calculation, a moral choice that was not meant to be that of humans; and yet someone beh... ...other non-Parmenidetian activity that was paradise to the masses and vile to philosophers and contemplatives would have caused her to grab the nearest... ...a more internal brooding in the Hokkaido cold. She had feasted on poets and philosophers. She had learnt of Japanese history, art, and traditional m... ...y that had tossed the chemicals of inchoate matter, then cloistered artists, philosophers, and other contemplatives would be the dominant force on the...

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...us, Irena Zolotova Translation: David Brushin, Chaim Ratz Proofreading: Susan Morales Kosinec Layout: Baruch Khovov Laitman Kabbalah Publishers Websi... ...e answer, but they hid it from us! How is it that so many intelligent people--philosophers, scien- tists, and researchers--cannot answer man’s most i... ...ip with the Creator. Hence, the concealment. We perform the acts that concern morality and customs while under the influence of corporeal pleasures,... ...that yearning first appears, the technical acts that belong to the ritual and moral part become less important, and we establish a personal contact ... ... books, I feel as though my brain has been reprogrammed. It seems that all my moral values have been turned upside-down. I think more and more about... ...ing from our tech- nological progress because it is not in accordance with our moral devel- opment. Therefore, all we get from it is pain. You want to... ...with the most wicked, scientists, mu- sicians and politicians, and ending with philosophers, religious figures and scholars. However, that fact does ... ...huda Ashlag), such as Talmud Eser Se- firot and Zohar. Although scientists and philosophers will delight in its illumination, lay- men will also enjoy...

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...over the one solitary road 5 traversing that part of history. Glimpses of moral truth, or suggestions of what may lead to it; indications of neglecte... ...ason against us all, had been demonstrated to the satisfaction of all true philosophers. Who were these shams and make-believe men? They were, in fact... ...ongst us, that, although the physical discovery was now complete, he saw a moral difficulty. It was not a humming top that was required, but a peg top... .... Well was it for me that no time was allowed for an investigation into my morals by point-blank ques- tions as to my future intentions. In which case... ...reasures available. For, of old, it was an article in my brother’s code of morals, that, supposing a contest between any two parties, of which one pos... ...rother, Richard, he that had caused so much affliction by his incorrigible morals to the Sultan Amurath, pursued his own solitary thoughts—whatever th...

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...h feelings than the spectacle of a human being obtruding on our notice his moral ulcers or scars, and tearing away that “decent drapery” which time or... ... at the close of my Confessions, where I shall present the reader with the moral of my narrative. 7 Thomas de Quincey PRELIMINAR PRELIMINAR PRELIMINA... ...rious exception 2 of David Ricardo) but also on such a constitution of the moral faculties as shall give him an inner eye and power of intu- ition for... ...of diction which would never have been called out by a dull translation of moral essays, &c. “That boy,” said one of my masters, point- ing the attent... ...ly above the level of his fellow-crea- tures is not the most favourable to moral or to intellectual qualities. Lord D- placed before me a most magnifi... ...ek text] for all human woes; here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered: happiness m...

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... was, without being aware of it, the leader of a new school in letters and morals. His book was different from all others which were at that date in t... ...; how he was to occupy an almost unique position as a man of letters and a moralist; how the Essays would be read, in all the principal languages of E... ... human rea- son as far and as high as it could go, both in politics and in morals. On the other hand, Malebranche and the writers of Port Royal were a... ... inclination has not only reached but surpassed the theories of the wisest philosophers, regarding the duties and laws of the wedded state. And, at al... ...number.”—[Cicero, De Natura Deor., i. 37.] Cicero observes that of all the philosophers who have ac- knowledged a deity, Xenophanes the Colophonian on... ...takes upon himself to perform, he ever mixes his own part with it. Let the philosophers say what they will, the thing at which we all aim, even in vir... ...what is re- ported of the people about the cataracts of the Nile; and what philosophers believe of the music of the spheres, that the bodies of those ... ...rightly applied and best understood, can do no more but teach us prudence, moral honesty, and resolution, they thought fit, at first hand, to initiate... ...neg- ligence, sloth; we have grown effeminate through opinions and corrupt morality.” —Cicero, Tusc. Quaes., v. 27.] Every one knows the story of Scae...

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...ication, though she would not seem to understand it, and Betty took up the moral. “Sir Amyas! Are you positive that you caught the name, child?” “I th... ...rom Eugene. 68 Love and Life Her father wrote at length all the excellent moral and reli- gious essay which had stuck in his throat at the parting; n... ...s in your Charge, to receive from you the first Principles of Religion and Morals which may mould their whole Lives; and I trust that you will do the ... ...for his new gown and cassock; but la! it was only a set of old doctors and philosophers, and he wished to know what musty discoveries they had been ma...

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...She gave the story of long melancholy broodings, of the slow course of her moral malady. How day by day she deadened the senses, how every night cut o... ...he patricians must continue to justify their existence. There is a sort of moral fief held on a tenure of service ren- dered to the sovereign, and her... ...pact in its organisation, nor consequent in its action; neither completely moral, nor frankly dissolute; it did not corrupt, nor was it corrupted; it ... ...he sentiment. Love would soon be conva- lescent, as the eighteenth century moralist remarked, were it not for vanity. And it is certainly true that fo... ...as dress, diamonds, and gloves, or flowers in one’s hair. Such talk is the moral coun- terpart of the toilette. You take it up and lay it aside with t... ...and passion are two different conditions which poets and men of the world, philosophers and fools, alike con- tinually confound. Love implies a give a... ...ded, holding out a hand, which he kissed. “We will be like two grey-headed philosophers who have learned how to enjoy life to the last moment. I will ...

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...to be done?” “Don’t steal rolls.” Stepan Arkadyevitch laughed outright. “Oh, moralist! But you must understand, there are two women; one insists only ... ...st physical pleasure in the sensation of his nearness, and his caresses, and moral soothing, when she met his simple, confiding, and loving glance, and... ... what is to be done to maintain nutrition?” “But, you know, there are always moral, spiritual causes at the back in these cases,” the family doctor pe... ...’s work lay before her, and she prepared to do it. She took of her hat, and, morally speaking, tucked up her sleeves and prepared for action. While he... ...” responded Yashvin. Yashvin, a gambler and a rake, a man not merely without moral principles, but of immoral principles, Yashvin was Vronsky’s greate... ... to study all the classics and theologians and tragedians and historians and philosophers, and, you know, all the intellectual work that came in his w... ...ead thoroughly Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer, the philosophers who gave a non materialistic explanation of life. Their idea... ..., freedom, essence, purposely letting himself go into the snare of words the philosophers set for him, he seemed to comprehend something. But he had o... ...urch lost all its charm for him, and this edifice crumbled into dust like the philosophers’ edifices. All that spring he was not himself, and went throu...

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... left, of a character unknown to the tragic and the lyric poet, or even to philosophers. We have in this world men whom Rabelais would call agelasts; ... ...the laughter-hating, soon learns to dignify his dislike as an objection in morality. We have another class of men, who are pleased to consider themsel... ...arrogant piety. It has subsided altogether as a power in the profession of morality; but it is an error to suppose it extinct, and un- just also to fo... ...n- duce to making merry: you might as well carry cannon on a racing-yacht. Morality is a duenna to be circumvented. This was the view of English Comed... ...ssession of the cudgel, is open to question: it has been hinted; and angry moralists have traced the na- tional taste for tales of crime to the smell ... ...ic of Jonson is a scholar’s excogitation of the comic; that of Massinger a moralist’s. Shakespeare is a well-spring of characters which are satu- rate... ..., which is directly opposed to the Comic; and in his philosophy, judged by philosophers, he is a comic figure, by reason of this deficiency. ‘So bald ... ...Essay on Comedy You will find learned men undoubtedly, professors, reputed philosophers, and illustrious dilettanti. They have in them, perhaps, every...

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...children to great expectations. Does humanity, which, according to certain philosophers, is mak- ing progress, look on the art of waiting for dead men... ...an had acquired 14 The Elixir of Life an early familiarity with evil; his morals had been corrupted by a licentious court, a reflection worthy of the...

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...ing two and two together. He was the sort of doctor that is in manners, in morals, in methods and appearance, most succinctly and finally ex- pressed ... ...“No. No, I don’t. But no doubt if this growth goes on, we shall find grave moral and intellectual deficiencies. One might almost prophesy that from Ma... ...g home when you start out for a walk, he told me. But the intellectual and moral training of young Caddles, though fragmentary, was explicit. From the... ...ese forces of the New … I don’t know of course. I’m not one of your modern philosophers—explain everything with ether and atoms. Evolution. Rubbish li... ...isdom of our forefathers, of the slow growth of venerable institutions, of moral and so- cial traditions, that fitted our English national characteris... .... Instead of an antagonist who was a fellow-creature, a man one could hold morally responsible, and to whom one could address reasonable ap- peals, he...

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...se Was free, and to majestic ends was strong— 90 I do not speak of learning, moral truth, Or understanding—’twas enough for me To know that I was othe... ..., fruit or flower, Even the loose stones that cover the highway, 125 I gave a moral life—I saw them feel, Or linked them to some feeling. The great mas... ...y and False seeming (we might say) Be free to affect whatever formal gait Of moral or scholastic discipline 415 Shall raise them highest in their own ... ...ural alike, Unless it leap upon him in a dream, Touches him not. Briefly, the moral part Is perfect, and in learning and in books 320 He is a prodigy. ... ...mmon to all?) that, seeing, I essayed To give relief, began to deem myself A moral agent, judging between good And evil not as for the mind’s delight ... ...Sicilian tyrant’s overthrow 425 Sailed from Zacynthus—philosophic war Led by philosophers. With harder fate, Though like ambition, such was he, O frie... ...lation’s liveliness In all their comprehensive bearings known And visible to philosophers of old, Men who, to business of the world untrained, Lived i...

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...y the Vir- tue, Vir-tus, Manhood or Worth, that is in a man, is called his Morality, or Customariness. Fell Slaughter, one the most 47 Thomas Carlyle... ... once give it Customs, becomes War, with Laws of War; and is Customary and Moral enough; and red individuals carry the tools of it girt round their ha... ...Europe all rallying on us. It is a problem like few. Truly, if man, as the Philosophers brag, did to any extent look be- fore and after, what, one may... ...obbers, or were it even Filles de joie of a Girondin temper, corrupt their morals. (Deux Amis, xi. 73.) Tenth of August, immortal Anniversary, greater... ...elves fire- less, your fighters animated only by drill-serjeants, messroom moralities, and the drummer’s cat! However, it is begun, and will not end: ...

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...art bearing which we find in the portraits of our ancestors—men who joined moral to physical vigor—has disappeared. Yet in this gathering there was on... ...nty as to the road for me to follow suits my mind and disposition. A great moral power has stepped in, and once for all swept what we call chance out ... ...t has left me with a strong distaste for love. Passion which can argue and moralize seems to me detestable. Clarissa also is much too pleased with her... ...ld he feel in the long run for a woman who had made of duplicity a sort of moral armor, as indispensable as her stays? Love, dear, is in my eyes the f... ...and measure; but surely to take neces- sity as the spring of action is the moral theory of atheism? T o follow the impulse of love and feeling is the ... ...ing man and woman! I have no wish to controvert what has been laid down by philosophers or legislators—they are quite capable of do- ing this for them... ...s, and only shows how well we deserve the epithet of children, bestowed by philosophers on our sex.” She continued talking thus in the gentle voice yo...

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...a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. It is not only when Lydgate misallies himself with Rosamond Vi... ...n neither prevent nor delay the inevitable ebb. There is no hocus-pocus in morality; and even the “sanctimonious cer- emony” of marriage leaves the ma... ...t you are nobody’s enemy but your own; let us agree that you are a sort of moral cripple, im- potent for good; and let us regard you with the unmingle... ...is won- derful how swiftly she can change her tune into the husband’s. Her morality has been, too often, an affair of precept and conformity. But in t... ...f a bachelor who has enjoyed some measure both of privacy and freedom, his moral judgments have been passed in some accordance with his nature. His si... ...y at the truck, but who would climb into a sea-going ship? Think (if these philosophers were right) with what a preparation of spirit we should affron...

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...s for this fear,—all the more because an account of them will complete the moral portrait of the man. The old Marquis de Simeuse transferred the great... ... by its position between the park and the forest, and by the still greater moral solitude of universal repulsion. “Pick up these things,” said his fat... ...wer?” “My child,” replied the abbe, “the Church has been greatly blamed by philosophers for declaring in former times that the same weapons might be e... ...r with all its vast facilities of action. Finding themselves stopped short morally, as they might be physically by a door which they expected to find ... ...r plans re- mained impenetrable. To any one who watched the effects of the moral scent, if we may so call it, of these bloodhounds on the track of hid... ...couple those two words). A day will come, no doubt, when physiologists and philosophers will both admit that the senses are, in some way, the sheath o... ...e magistrate had it not been for his love-affair, and the Emperor’s sudden morality to which he owed his disgrace) to think the audacity of the young ...

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... leave that captive cage, Nor cease those busy searching hops? Ah, no! the moral will not strain; Another sense will make it range, Another mate will ... ...ke a wreath Of our most blushful flower shine trembling through, T o teach philosophers the thirst of thieves: Is one for me? is one for you? II —Fair... ...es on, marking their source: They read her with infant eyes. Good ships of morality they, For our crude developing force; Granite the thought to stay,... ...irt. And dog, bull, cook, was he, fanged, horned, plumed; Original man, as philosophers vouch; Carnivorous, cannibal; length-long exhumed, Frightfully... ...e Fiend. Still, nursing a passion to speak, As the punch-bowl does, in the moral vein, When the ladle has finished its leak, And the vessel is loquent... ...pressive scene, beyond arrest, A darkness not with stars of heaven dressed Philosophers behold; desponding view Your Many nourished, starved my brilli...

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...as adopted, or does it characterize her sisters equally?—and is it used in a moral or in a financial sense? Does it mean that they’ve been left well of... ...is mother’s door (at a quarter to seven) with a good deal of eagerness. Even philosophers have their preferences, and it must be admitted that of his ... ...as well, and there was something in Mrs. Touchett’s dryness that set her own moral fountains flowing. “Now what’s your point of view?” she asked of her... ... these progressive ideas are about their biggest luxury. They make them feel moral and yet don’t damage their position. They think a great deal of the... ...r visions of a completed consciousness had connected themselves largely with moral images—things as to which the question 84 Portrait of a Lady would... ... feel the need of thinking things over and summing them up; she had a little moral account book—with columns unerringly ruled and a sharp steel clasp—...

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...rected agai nst the sciences in general, and the other against the dogmatic philosophers. The six books composing the first of these are written res... ... two against the logicians, two against physics, and one against systems of morals. If the last short work of the first book directed against the ar... ...im occupied themselves with it. [2] It was a question much discussed among philosophers in ancient times, whether Pyrrhonism should be considered a... ...t, or any subtle kind of reasoning, but seems to be rather a unique form of moral perfection, leading to happiness, or is itself happiness. [1] Hyp... ...ion of outward objects to each other. The tenth is the only one which has a moral significance, and it has also a higher subjective value than the ot... ...o circumstances outside of us, and finally the treatment of metaphysical and moral differences. The First Trope. [1] That the same mental represent... ...erfect character of the dog, remarks, "For which reason it seems to me some philosophers have honoured themselves with the name of this animal," [2]... ...as he does later in his work against logic. [4] He simply states here that philosophers themselves cannot agree as to what nature is, and furthermor... ...nest ethical teachings of older writers. Sextus does not, however, draw any moral conclusions from this reasoning, but only uses it as an argument f...

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...impossible. Agostoni Steuco of Gubbio was right, the differences between philosophers are undifferentiable. Leibniz's expression <true in all possi... ...uce the competitions, and thus the progress. My opinion is that some philosophers grope, stumble. They don't have clear ideas or systems, or e... ...ivity] (Emile Cioran). And a sage: There is no philosophy, there are only philosophers. Therefore philosophers without philosophy! But reciprocall... ...phers without philosophy! But reciprocally: is there a philosophy without philosophers? "Any big philosophy ends up into a platitude" (Constanti... ...multaneously. They may not be separated, as the materialist and idealist philosophers tried to do; and not only the psychic is the superior result ... ...iticians: "the politicians of the ancient world were always talking about morals and virtue, ours speak on nothing else but commerce and money". Hi... ...mes regularly out: for pushing the limits. Contemporary Neutrosophic Moral issues. There are arguments for, neuter, and against: abortion, eut... ...he happiness of the artist persists in his unhappiness. The greatest moral lessons are thought by immoralists (because they were landed into th...