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Few children can eat when excited with the thoughts of a journey; nor could I.
Sayfa 40 - pdf
"Children must be corrected for their faults."
Sayfa 37 - pdf
"(...) That proves you have a wicked heart; and you must pray to God to change it: to give you a new and a clean one: to take away your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Sayfa 33 - pdf
Okur Takip Önerileri
Human beings must love something.
Sayfa 28 - pdf
I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste.
Sayfa 24 - pdf
Children can feel, but they cannot analyze their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.
Sayfa 23 - pdf
"(...) And besides, I am unhappy, very unhappy, for other things."
Sayfa 23 - pdf
"Until you can speak pleasantly, remain silent."
Sayfa 7 - pdf
(...) We must admit that human life is subject to frequent error in connection with particular things, and we must acknowledge the frailties of our nature.
Sixth meditation, Oxford University Press
(...) And I can likewise consider the body of a human being as a kind of machine made up of bones, nerves, muscles, veins, blood, and skin so fitted together that, even if there were no mind within it, it would still have all the movements it currently has that do not result from the command of the will (and hence the mind).
Sixth meditation, Oxford University Press
(...) Yet I had often heard from people whose arm or leg had been amputated, that they still occasionally seemed to feel pain in the part of the body they were missing; and therefore even in myself it did not seem to be wholly certain that one of my limbs was hurting, even though I was feeling pain in it.
Sixth meditation, Oxford University Press
(...) But why this mysterious feeling of pain is followed by a feeling of sadness in the soul, and why the awareness of pleasure is followed by joy, or why the mysterious pangs in the stomach I call hunger prompt me to take food, while a dryness in the throat prompts me to drink, and so on, I certainly could not explain except by saying that nature teaches me that it is so.
Sixth meditation, Oxford University Press
(...) And so I plainly see that the certitude and truth of all knowledge [scientiae] depends on the knowledge [cognitione] of the true God alone: so much so, that before I had discovered this knowledge, I could have no perfect knowledge [scire] of anything else at all.
Fifth meditation, Oxford University Press
(...) And thus I should never have true and certain knowledge [scientia] of anything, but only vague and shifting opinions.
Fifth meditation, Oxford University Press
(...) Just as I am free to imagine a winged horse, even if no horse actually does have wings, so perhaps I can imagine the existence of a God, even though no God in fact exists.
Fifth meditation, Oxford University Press