EpicureanismSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1880 - 272 pages |
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according to Epicurus ancient Aristippus Aristotle Athenæus Athenian Athens atomic theory believe body cause century character CHIG Cicero circumstances Cloth Boards conception consciousness Cynic Cyrenaic death Demetrius Democritus Diogenes Laertius disciples distinction divine doctrine elements Epicu Epicureanism Epicurus ethical existence explanation fact feeling friends garden Gods Greek heaven Herculaneum Hermarchus human ideal ideas images individual intellectual Lampsacus Leontion live logic Lucretius Macedonian matter ment merely metaphysical Metrodôrus MICHIG UNIV mind modern molecules moral motion movement nature Nausiphanes never object pain perception phenomena Philodemus philosophers physical Plato Plato and Aristotle pleasure Plutarch political present principles Pyrrho Pythocles question reality reanism reason recognised RSITY says scarcely sect seems Seneca sensation sense shape SITY society Socrates soul spirit Stoicism Stoics supposed things thought tion true truth UNIV UNIV universe virtue whole words Zeno Zeno of Sidon
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Page 39 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 237 - ... the passage from the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Page 130 - When we say, then, that pleasure is the end and aim, we do not mean the pleasures of the prodigal or the pleasures of sensuality, as we are understood to do by some through ignorance, prejudice, or wilful misrepresentation.
Page 46 - When each by turns was guide to each, And Fancy light from Fancy caught, And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought ; Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech...
Page 128 - Foolish, therefore, is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will pain when it comes, but because it pains in the prospect.