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الصفحة 288 - Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
الصفحة 13 - Was it the water's fathomless abyss? There was not death — yet was there nought immortal. There was no confine betwixt day and night; The only One breathed breathless by itself, Other than It there nothing since has been. Darkness there was, and all at first was veiled In gloom profound — an ocean without light...
الصفحة 134 - Now it is manifest by the natural light that there must at least be as much reality in the efficient and total cause as in its effect.
الصفحة 152 - Keep not standing fixed and rooted, Briskly venture, briskly roam ; Head and hand, where'er thou foot it, And stout heart are still at home. " In what land the sun does visit, Brisk are we, whate'er betide : To give space for wandering is it That the world was made so wide.
الصفحة 137 - ... difficulty, there is another which represents a God, and there are others representing corporeal and inanimate things, others angels, others animals, and others again which represent to me men similar to myself. As regards the ideas which represent to me other men or animals, or angels, I can however easily conceive that they might be formed by...
الصفحة 13 - Who knows the secret? who proclaimed it here, Whence, whence this manifold creation sprang? The Gods themselves came later into being — Who knows from whence this great creation sprang ? He from whom all this great creation came, Whether His will created or was mute, The Most High Seer that is in highest heaven, He knows it — or perchance even he knows not.
الصفحة 292 - The whole of this web of contradictions (and it might be extended, if necessary, to a far greater length) is woven from one original warp and woof ; — namely, the impossibility of conceiving the coexistence of the infinite and the finite, and the cognate impossibility of conceiving a first commencement of phenomena, or the absolute giving birth to the relative. The...
الصفحة 23 - I considered myself as having a face, hands, arms, and all that system of members composed of bones and flesh as seen in a corpse which I designated by the name of body. In addition to this I considered that I was nourished, that I walked, that I felt, and that I thought, and I referred all these actions to the soul: but I did not stop to consider what the soul was, or if I did stop, I imagined that it was something extremely rare and subtle like a wind, a flame, or an ether, which was spread throughout...
الصفحة 311 - I could in no way avail myself of it], if there were not either in me or in some other thing another active faculty capable of forming and producing these ideas.
الصفحة 139 - I must not imagine that I do not apprehend the infinite by a true idea, but only by the negation of the finite, in the same way that I comprehend repose and darkness by the negation of motion and light...

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