L'idealisme anglais: étude sur CarlyleG. Baillière, 1864 - 187 pages |
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allemande âme amid anglais Antino Appearances bouteilles de Leyde call Canope Canopus Carlyle character choses cisme Cloth cochons cœur conception conjecture conscience covenantaire critique Cromwell culte devoir Dieu divine duty émotions esprit exégèse find forme French Revolution glares Godlike Goethe great groupe guano head heart Heaven Hegel Heroes héros hidden history homme idées infinite intérieur know l'esprit positif l'héroïsme l'histoire l'homme l'imagination l'univers Latter day Pamphlets life little made matter ment moderne monde moral mysti mysticisme mystique nature never Odin œuvres Past and Present pensée perhaps philosophie pigs poésie poëtes poétique produit prophètes protestantisme puritains qu'une races relavures religieux religion révolution révolution française Sartor science sect sense sentiment seul Shakspeare share siècle soul stands style sublime substance Symbol TAINE théorie thing thou tion true truth Ulfila univers Universe universelle unspeakable vérité violentes visible vision Voilà Walter Raleigh whole wild wilt wonder world worship
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Page 125 - All religion was here to remind us, better or worse, of what we already know better or worse, of the quite infinite difference there is between a Good man and a Bad ; to bid us love infinitely the one, abhor and avoid infinitely the other, — strive infinitely to be the one, and not to be the other. " All religion issues in due Practical Hero-worship.
Page 109 - But whence ?—O Heaven, whither ? Sense knows not; Faith knows not; only that it is through Mystery to Mystery, from God and to God. ' " We are such stuff As Dreams are made of, and our little Life Is rounded with a sleep!
Page 25 - what is man? An omnivorous Biped that wears Breeches. To the eye of Pure Reason what is he? A Soul, a Spirit, and divine Apparition. Round his mysterious ME, there lies, under all those wool-rags, a Garment of Flesh (or of Senses), contextured in the Loom of Heaven; whereby he is revealed to his like, and dwells with them in UNION and DIVISION; and sees and fashions for himself a Universe, with azure Starry Spaces, and long Thousands of Years. Deep-hidden is he under that strange Garment; amid Sounds...
Page 25 - what is man ? An omnivorous Biped that wears Breeches. To the eye of Pure Reason what is he ? A Soul, a Spirit, and divine Apparition. Round his mysterious ME, there lies, under all those wool-rags, a Garment of Flesh (or of Senses), contextured in the Loom of Heaven ; whereby he is revealed to his like, and dwells with them in UNION and DIVISION ; and sees and fashions for himself a Universe, with azure Starry Spaces, and long Thousands of Years.
Page 121 - For if Government is, so to speak, the outward SKIN of the Body Politic, holding the whole together and protecting it ; and all your Craft-Guilds, and Associations for Industry, of hand or of head, are the Fleshly Clothes, the muscular and osseous Tissues (lying under such SKIN), whereby Society stands and works ; — then is Religion the inmost Pericardial and Nervous Tissue, which ministers Life and warm Circulation to the whole.
Page 74 - Ainsi s'éleva, à la fin du dernier siècle le génie philosophique allemand qui , ayant engendré une métaphysique, une théologie, une poésie , une littérature , une linguistique , une exégèse, une érudition nouvelles, descend en ce moment dans les sciences et continue son évolution. Nul esprit plus original, plus universel, plus fécond en conséquences de toute portée et de toute" sorte, plus capable de tout transformer et de tout refaire, ne s'est montré depuis trois cents ans.
Page 148 - Blakes and Nelsons ! No Homer sang these Norse Sea-kings ; but Agamemnon's was a small audacity, and of small fruit in the world, to some of them ; — to Hrolf s of Normandy, for instance ! Hrolf, or Rollo Duke of Normandy, the wild Sea-king, has a share in governing England at this hour.
Page 171 - Universe as it is not. We have quietly closed our eyes to the eternal Substance of things, and opened them only to the Shows and Shams of things.
Page 102 - Appearances, SPACE and TIME. These, as spun and woven for us from before Birth itself, to clothe our celestial ME, for dwelling here, and yet to blind it, — lie all-embracing, as the universal canvas, or warp and woof, whereby all minor Illusions, in this Phantasm Existence, weave and paint themselves.
Page 116 - With Stupidity and sound Digestion man may front much. But what, in these dull unimaginative days, are the terrors of Conscience to the diseases of the Liver ! Not on Morality, but on Cookery, let us build our stronghold : there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his Elect...