| Edward Douglas Fawcett - 1916 - 676 páginas
...inspired the Crusades, that instituted the monastic orders, it was not reason that produced the Jesuits ; above all, it was not reason that created the French...irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination." In sober truth " Reason " is not a glacial impersonal agency. It is a name for certain processes, ratiocinative... | |
| Edward Douglas Fawcett - 1916 - 676 páginas
...inspired the Crusades, that instituted the monastic orders, it was not reason that produced the Jesuits ; above all, it was not reason that created the French...irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination." In sober truth " Reason " is not a glacial impersonal agency. It is a name for certain processes, ratiocinative... | |
| Graham Wallas - 1916 - 328 páginas
...any of the great achievements which are the land.•marks of human action and human progress. . . . Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions...irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. Even Mormon accounts more votaries than Bentham.' 4 1 Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism., etc. (ed.... | |
| William Ernest Hocking - 1918 - 490 páginas
...is likely to be supercilious and deceptive political action. But if with Disraeli one realizes that 'Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions,...irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination,' there is room at least for a generous interpretation of the unreasoned motive. Benjamin Kidd seems... | |
| William Ernest Hocking - 1918 - 478 páginas
...is likely to be supercilious and deceptive political action. But if with Disraeli one realizes that 'Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions, never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination,1 there is room at least for a generous interpretation of the unreasoned motive. Benjamin... | |
| William Ernest Hocking - 1918 - 500 páginas
...is likely to be supercilious and deceptive political action. But if with Disraeli one realizes that 'Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions, never irresistible but when he appeal* to the imagination,' there is room at least for a generous interpretation of the unreasoned... | |
| George Albemarle Bertie Dewar - 1921 - 364 páginas
...is passion, ardent faith with ambition, not cold, bleak, balancing reason. " Man is truly great only when he acts from the passions, never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. . . . We are not indebted to the reason of man for any of the great achievements which are the landmarks... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1923 - 502 páginas
...the Crusades ; that instituted the Monastic orders ; it was not Reason that produced the Jesuits ; above all, it was not Reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only truly great when he acta from the passions ; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. Even Mormon counts... | |
| Laurence Ladd Buermeyer - 1924 - 196 páginas
...against it stands another which may be called the bohemian. The bohemian, remembering Disraeli's words, "Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions,...irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination," finds prudence and calculation uninspiring virtues. He is all for throwing them overboard and making... | |
| Arthur Cherep-Spiridovich (Count) - 1926 - 212 páginas
...reason of man for any of great achievements which are the landmarks of human action and human progress. Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions;...irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. England is governed by Downing Street, once it was governed by the Kings". Rothschild is sure that... | |
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