 | Immanuel Kant - 1855 - 572 pages
...synthesis that has been inadvertently and quite unnecessarily mixed up with it. It is this : — " It is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time." Not to mention the superfluousness of the addition of the word impossible to indicate the apodeictic... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 50 pages
...that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a 5 man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the... | |
 | William Law - 1908 - 204 pages
...will make death to be life, and fire to be water. But you might as well expect that God should make a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time; for this is as possible as to make Hell to be Heaven, or Death to be Life; for darkness can no more... | |
 | 1909 - 540 pages
...that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 636 pages
...that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not' to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent 5 party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself... | |
 | John Paterson Smyth - 1910 - 248 pages
...God do contradictory things ? Can God make a door to be open and shut at the same time ? Can God make a thing to be and not to be at the same time ? Can God make a man's will free to choose good or evil and yet secure that he shall certainly choose... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...that they can be cheated. But it is as 5 impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 196 pages
...a king. Spiritual Laws. BUT it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the... | |
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Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. 
