item: #1 of 16 id: 1016 author: Spinoza, Benedictus de title: On the Improvement of the Understanding date: None words: 16490 flesch: 59 summary: (2) Neither shall we wonder why we understand some things which in nowise fall within the scope of the imagination, while other things are in the imagination but wholly opposed to the understanding, or others, again, which agree therewith. [p] To be connected with other things is to be produced by them, or to produce them. keywords: essence; idea; knowledge; mind; nature; order; things; truth; understanding cache: 1016.txt plain text: 1016.txt item: #2 of 16 id: 13316 author: Boethius title: The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy date: None words: 99742 flesch: 65 summary: Quod uero quisque potest, in eo ualidus, quod uero non potest, in hoc imbecillis esse censendus est. Quod enim sensibile uel imaginabile est, id uniuersum esse non posse; aut igitur rationis uerum esse iudicium nec quidquam esse sensibile, aut quoniam sibi notum sit plura sensibus et imaginationi esse subiecta, inanem conceptionem esse rationis quae quod sensibile sit ac singulare quasi quiddam uniuersale consideret. keywords: absolute; ac non; accidents; adam; age; aliae; aliquid; aliud; ante; aristotle; atque; aut; autem; bear; beatitudinem; believe; blessedness; bodies; body; boethius; bona; boni; bonorum; bonum; bonum est; bonum quod; caelum; canst; cause; ceteris; change; chiefest; christ; codd; condition; constat; corpus; course; cuius; cum; cum igitur; cum uero; cuncta; cur; d quod; death; definition; dei; deo; desire; deum; deus; deus est; dicitur; dictum est; didst; difference; dignities; diuina; divinity; dost; dost thou; doth; doubt; ea quae; eadem; eam; earth; ego; eis; eius; end; enim; enim esse; enim quae; enim quod; eo quod; eorum; eos; erit; error; esse; esse non; esse quae; esse qui; esse quod; est; est ad; est enim; est et; est igitur; est uel; et cum; et esse; et ex; etenim; etiam; eutyches; evil; eyes; facere; facit; faith; fall; fame; father; felicity; fieri; filius; fit; flesh; followeth; force; foreknowledge; form; formam; forth; fortune; fuerit; fuisse; fuit; future; genus; glory; god; godhead; good; goodness; great; greek; grief; ground; habere; habet; haec; hanc; hand; happiness; hath; heaven; hic; hoc; holy; homines; hominum; homo; huiusmodi; human; hunc; i.e.; idcirco; igitur; iii; illa; ille; illi; illud; infra; inquam; inquit; inter; ipsa; ipse; ipsum; ipsum esse; ita; ita est; itaque; iure; judge; judgment; kind; knowledge; law; licet; life; light; living; mali; man; manhood; manifest; manifestum est; manner; mary; materia; matter; mayest; means; men; mentis; mihi; mind; minime; miserable; misery; modo; mortal; motion; nam; nam et; nam quod; nam si; namque; naturam; nature; nec; necesse; necesse est; necessity; needs; neque; neque enim; nestorius; nihil; nihil est; nisi; nomen; non; non de; non enim; non est; non ex; non igitur; non ita; non modo; non possunt; non potest; non sunt; nonne; nos; nulla; number; nunc; omne; omnia; omnibus; omnino; omnium; opinion; order; pariter; pass; pater; paulo; people; person; personam; philosophy; phoebus; place; plato; pleasure; posse; possit; possunt; post; potentia; potest; potius; power; present; prorsus; prouidentia; providence; punishment; quae; quae cum; quae de; quae si; quae sunt; quae uero; quaedam; quality; quasi; quem; qui; qui quod; qui uero; quia; quibus; quidem; quidem esse; quin; quis; quisque; quod; quod cum; quod est; quod igitur; quod non; quod quidem; quod si; quod sunt; quod uel; quod uero; quoniam; quoniam non; quoque; quorum; quos; quoth; quoth i.; race; ratione; reason; rebus; rei; relation; rerum; respect; rest; reward; riches; rursus; saepe; sanctus; secundum; sed; sed ad; sed cum; sed de; sed esse; sed ex; sed haec; sed hoc; sed non; sed quae; sed quod; sed quoniam; sed si; semper; sese; si enim; si haec; si igitur; si non; si quidem; sibi; sic; sine; sint; sit; sort; soul; species; spirit; spiritus; stars; state; sua; subject; substance; substantia; sui; suis; summum; sunt; supra; tamen; tantum; term; thee; thine; things; thou; thought; thy; tibi; time; trinity; truth; tuae; tum; ubi; uel; uel si; uelut; uera; uero; uero atque; uero esse; uero est; uero non; uidetur; uitae; una; unam; union; unity; unum; unus; ut et; ut non; ut quae; ut si; uti; utrisque; vii; virtue; way; ways; white; wicked; wickedness; wilt; world cache: 13316.txt plain text: 13316.txt item: #3 of 16 id: 14328 author: Boethius title: The Consolation of Philosophy date: None words: 43378 flesch: 76 summary: But if they are not able to fulfil their promises, and, moreover, lack many good things, is not the happiness men seek in them clearly discovered to be a false show? Yet, while other things are content with their own, ye who in your intellect are God-like seek from the lowest of things adornment for a nature of supreme excellence, and perceive not how great a wrong ye do your Maker. keywords: boethius; didst; dost; earth; end; evil; eyes; fortune; god; good; happiness; hath; high; knowledge; life; man; men; mind; nature; necessity; order; power; present; providence; reason; song; supreme; thee; things; thou; thy; time; truth; virtue; way; wicked; world cache: 14328.txt plain text: 14328.txt item: #4 of 16 id: 15780 author: Moore, Edward Caldwell title: An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant date: None words: 90438 flesch: 67 summary: Great men have always done so, confiding themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying a perception which was stirring in their hearts, working through their hands, dominating their whole being.' It was the licence of its speculative endeavour, and the identification of these endeavours with Christianity, which finally discredited Hegelianism with religious men. keywords: age; book; century; christian; christianity; church; consciousness; divine; doctrine; end; england; experience; fact; faith; god; good; great; history; human; influence; jesus; kant; knowledge; law; life; man; men; mind; movement; nature; new; newman; nineteenth; philosophy; place; point; question; reason; religion; revelation; schleiermacher; science; sense; set; social; spirit; spiritual; theology; thought; time; truth; universe; view; way; work; world; years cache: 15780.txt plain text: 15780.txt item: #5 of 16 id: 21995 author: Rashdall, Hastings title: Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge date: None words: 49872 flesch: 56 summary: In this state of mind matter presents itself as the one solid reality--as something undeniable, something perfectly intelligible, something, too, which is pre-eminently {7} important and respectable; while thinking and feeling and willing, joy and sorrow, hope and aspiration, goodness and badness, if they cannot exactly be got rid of altogether, are, as it were, negligible quantities, which must not be allowed to disturb or interfere with the serious business of the Universe. I have passed over a host of difficulties--the relation of God to time, the question whether or in what sense the world may be supposed to have a beginning and an end, the question of the relation in which God, the universal Mind, stands to other minds, the question of Free-will. keywords: belief; cause; christ; consciousness; existence; experience; god; good; human; idea; knowledge; life; matter; men; mind; nature; point; reality; reason; religion; sense; things; thought; time; truth; universe; view; way; world cache: 21995.txt plain text: 21995.txt item: #6 of 16 id: 26321 author: Lodge, Oliver, Sir title: Life and Matter: A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's "Riddle of the Universe" date: None words: 26987 flesch: 44 summary: Undoubtedly our body is material and can act on other matter; and the energy of its operations is derived from food, like any other self-propelled and fuel-fed mechanism; but mechanism is usually controlled by an attendant. Abstractions like the British Constitution, and other such things, can hardly be said to have any incarnate existence. keywords: energy; existence; fact; force; form; haeckel; human; kind; knowledge; life; man; material; matter; mind; nature; power; science; sense; things; time; truth; universe; world cache: 26321.txt plain text: 26321.txt item: #7 of 16 id: 36800 author: Holyoake, Austin title: Ludicrous Aspects Of Christianity A Response To The Challenge Of The Bishop Of Manchester date: None words: 10763 flesch: 71 summary: We will take it as such, and see what aspect Jesus presents when viewed in the light we are able to bring to bear upon his portrait. That great French writer has evidently gone to his task with the intention or anticipation of finding an almost perfect man, and he ends by believing he really sees one in Jesus. keywords: days; disciples; god; heaven; jesus; man; men; people; peter; son; thee; thou; world cache: 36800.txt plain text: 36800.txt item: #8 of 16 id: 3743 author: Paine, Thomas title: The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): The Age of Reason date: None words: 72882 flesch: 60 summary: The Pope, Zachary II., decided that if his alleged doctrine, against God and his soul, that beneath the earth there is another world, other men, or sun and moon, should be acknowledged by Virgilius, he should be excommunicated by a Council and condemned with canonical sanctions. If by a prophet we are to suppose a man to whom the Almighty communicated some event that would take place in future, either there were such men, or there were not. keywords: account; age; belief; bible; book; case; chapter; children; christ; christian; church; creation; day; death; evidence; god; idea; jerusalem; jesus; jews; joshua; king; life; lord; man; manner; men; moral; moses; new; paine; people; person; place; power; reason; religion; story; sun; system; testament; thing; time; word; work; writer; years cache: 3743.txt plain text: 3743.txt item: #9 of 16 id: 60488 author: Guizot, François title: Meditations on the Essence of Christianity, and on the Religious Questions of the Day. date: None words: 59257 flesch: 62 summary: Man therefore had a beginning: man has come upon the earth. {32} I shall subsequently state my opinion as to the full meaning of the expression, Man is a free being, and as to the nature of the consequences to which it leads; for the present, I assume, as a certain and incontestable fact, this principle of human liberty,--of the free determination of man considered as a moral agent. keywords: 8vo; abraham; christian; day; dogma; evil; fact; faith; father; footnote; god; history; human; israel; jesus; jesus christ; laws; liberty; life; light; lord; man; men; mind; miracles; moses; nations; nature; object; people; place; power; present; religion; science; son; soul; state; supernatural; thee; thou; thy; time; words; world cache: 60488.txt plain text: 60488.txt item: #10 of 16 id: 621 author: James, William title: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature date: None words: 188551 flesch: 65 summary: It is between these two elements that the short circuit exists on which she carries on her principal business, while the ideas and symbols and other institutions form loop-lines which may be perfections and improvements, and may even some day all be united into one harmonious system, but which are not to be regarded as organs with an indispensable function, necessary at all times for religious life to go on. If, then, there be a wider world of being than that of our every-day consciousness, if in it there be forces whose effects on us are intermittent, if one facilitating condition of the effects be the openness of the subliminal door, we have the elements of a theory to which the phenomena of religious life lend plausibility. keywords: absolute; account; belief; believe; body; book; case; change; character; christian; church; condition; consciousness; conversion; course; cure; day; death; difference; divine; evil; example; existence; experience; fact; faith; fear; feeling; form; fruits; general; god; good; hand; happiness; having; heart; help; hour; human; ideas; individual; infinite; kind; know; lecture; life; light; like; live; living; lord; love; makes; man; matter; meaning; means; melancholy; men; mind; moment; mystical; nature; need; new; non; order; people; persons; phenomena; philosophy; place; point; power; prayer; presence; present; question; reality; reason; religion; result; saint; science; self; sense; set; sin; sort; soul; spirit; state; subject; theology; things; think; thought; time; truth; turn; type; universe; use; value; view; way; words; work; world; years cache: 621.txt plain text: 621.txt item: #11 of 16 id: 8909 author: Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d' title: The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 1 date: None words: 121781 flesch: 39 summary: There is, therefore, every reason to believe that it is entirely in the brain, that consists the difference, that is found not only between man and beasts, but also between the man of wit, and the fool: between the thinking man, and he who is ignorant; between the man of sound understanding, and the madman: a multitude of experience, serves to prove, that those persons who are most accustomed to use their intellectual faculties, have their brain more extended than others: the same has been remarked of watermen, that they have arms much longer than other men. If, then, the will and the actions of this individual have an influence over a great number of other men, here is the moral world in a state of the greatest combustion, and those consequences ensue which man contemplates with fearful wonder. keywords: action; beings; bodies; body; brain; causes; consequence; death; desire; effects; existence; experience; form; great; happiness; human; ideas; imagination; impulse; laws; life; man; manner; matter; means; men; mind; mode; motion; nature; necessity; objects; order; organs; passions; power; properties; reason; senses; society; soul; species; state; thing; truth; virtue; world cache: 8909.txt plain text: 8909.txt item: #12 of 16 id: 8910 author: Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d' title: The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 2 date: None words: 138002 flesch: 37 summary: Every thing proves to us, that it is not out of nature man ought to seek the Divinity. Nevertheless, if the Divinity be incomprehensible, It would not be straining a point beyond its tension, to conclude that a priest, or metaphysician, did not comprehend him better than other men: it is not, perhaps, either the wisest or the surest way to become acquainted with him, to represent him to ourselves, by the imagination of a theologian. keywords: act; action; beings; causes; conduct; divinity; earth; effects; evil; existence; experience; fact; form; gods; good; happiness; human; ideas; ignorance; imagination; knowledge; laws; man; mankind; manner; matter; means; men; mind; mode; morality; mortals; motion; nature; necessity; notions; opinions; order; passions; peculiar; people; power; priests; qualities; reason; society; species; superstition; systems; thing; thou; time; truth; virtue; wisdom; world cache: 8910.txt plain text: 8910.txt item: #13 of 16 id: 989 author: Spinoza, Benedictus de title: Theologico-Political Treatise — Part 1 date: None words: 31137 flesch: 60 summary: (90) Moses admitted, indeed, that there were beings (doubtless by the plan and command of the Lord) who acted as God's vicegerents - that is, beings to whom God had given the right, authority, and power to direct nations, and to provide and care for them; but he taught that this Being Whom they were bound to obey was the highest and Supreme God, or (to use the Hebrew phrase) God of gods, and thus in the song (Exod. xv:11) (42) The truth of a historical narrative, however assured, cannot give us the knowledge nor consequently the love of God, for love of God springs from knowledge of Him, and knowledge of Him should be derived from general ideas, in themselves certain and known, so that the truth of a historical narrative is very far from being a necessary requisite for our attaining our highest good. keywords: divine; god; good; jews; knowledge; law; laws; lord; man; men; mind; moses; nature; power; prophecy; prophets; reason; scripture; spirit; things; understanding; words cache: 989.txt plain text: 989.txt item: #14 of 16 id: 990 author: Spinoza, Benedictus de title: Theologico-Political Treatise — Part 2 date: None words: 32669 flesch: 66 summary: (11) An examination of these assures me that the prophecies therein contained have been compiled from other books, and are not always set down in the exact order in which they were spoken or written by the prophets, but are only such as were collected here and there, so that they are but fragmentary. (36) Aben Ezra, however, as I have already stated, affirms, in his commentaries, that the work is a translation into Hebrew from some other language: I could wish that he could advance more cogent arguments than he does, for we might then conclude that the Gentiles also had sacred books. keywords: book; chap; chapter; ezra; god; history; kings; knowledge; laws; meaning; men; miracles; moses; nature; order; people; reason; scripture; things; time; words; years cache: 990.txt plain text: 990.txt item: #15 of 16 id: 991 author: Spinoza, Benedictus de title: A Theological-Political Treatise [Part III] date: None words: 16433 flesch: 62 summary: , we are bound, solely by the authority of this text, and not by reason, to believe that God has no body: consequently we must explain metaphorically, on the sole authority of Scripture, all those passages which attribute to God hands, feet, &c., and take them merely as figures of speech. CHAPTER XII - Of the true Original of the Divine Law, and wherefore Scripture is called Sacred, and the Word of God. keywords: apostles; bible; chapter; faith; god; men; obedience; prophets; reason; religion; scripture; word cache: 991.txt plain text: 991.txt item: #16 of 16 id: 992 author: Spinoza, Benedictus de title: A Theological-Political Treatise [Part IV] date: None words: 28413 flesch: 63 summary: However, as we have shown that the natural right of the individual is only limited by his power, it is clear that by transferring, either willingly or under compulsion, this power into the hands of another, he in so doing necessarily cedes also a part of his right; and further, that the Sovereign right over all men belongs to him who has sovereign power, wherewith he can compel men by force, or restrain them by threats of the universally feared punishment of death; such sovereign right he will retain only so long as he can maintain his power of enforcing his will; otherwise he will totter on his throne, and no one who is stronger than he will be bound unwillingly to obey him. (5) If it were really the case, that men could be deprived of their natural rights so utterly as never to have any further influence on affairs [Endnote 29], except with the permission of the holders of sovereign right, it would then be possible to maintain with impunity the most violent tyranny, which, I suppose, no one would for an instant admit. keywords: authority; chapter; dominion; god; good; government; king; laws; man; men; moses; nature; people; power; reason; religion; right; sovereign; state cache: 992.txt plain text: 992.txt