The Works of Orestes A. Brownson: Philosophy

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Page 103 - The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 59 - For I thought that the first step towards satisfying several inquiries the mind of man was very apt to run into, was, to take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted.
Page 113 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing : for to will is present with me; but how...
Page 7 - And I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals. Then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, 'Who Is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals...
Page 59 - The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice of itself: And it requires art and pains to set it at a distance, and make it its own object.
Page 383 - Let an object be presented to a man of ever so strong natural reason and abilities ; if that object be entirely new to him, he will not be able, by the most accurate examination of its sensible qualities, to discover any of its causes or effects.
Page 103 - One sees more devils than vast hell can hold: That is the madman; the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt; The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to...
Page 392 - We cannot conceive either, on the one hand, nothing becoming something, or, on the other, something becoming nothing. When God is said to create the universe out of nothing, we think this, by supposing, that He evolves the universe out of Himself; and, in like manner, we conceive annihilation only by conceiving the Creator to withdraw his creation from actuality into power.
Page 458 - Omnia dicimur in Deo videre et secundum ipsum de omnibus judicare, in quantum per participationem sui luminis omnia cognoscimus et judicamus. Nam et ipsum lumen naturale rationis participatio quaedam est divini luminis, sicut etiam omnia sensibilia dicimur videre et in sole, id est, per lumen solis.
Page 393 - Now the phenomenon of causality seems nothing more than a corollary of the law of the conditioned, in its application to a thing thought under the form or mental category of existence relative in time We cannot know, we cannot think a thing, except under the attribute of existence ; we cannot know or think a thing to exist, except as in time ; and we cannot know or think a thing to exist in time, and think it absolutely to commence.

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