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الصفحة 87 - Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him ; but are, in very deed, Ghosts ! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow ; a Shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.
الصفحة 87 - Macedon: does the steel Host, that yelled in fierce battle-shouts at Issus and Arbela, remain behind him; or have they all vanished utterly, even as perturbed Goblins must? Napoleon too, and his Moscow Retreats and Austerlitz Campaigns! Was it all other than the veriest Spectre-Hunt; which has now, with its howling tumult that made Night hideous, flitted away? - Ghosts! There are nigh a thousand million walking the earth openly at noontide; some half-hundred have vanished from it, some half-hundred...
الصفحة 87 - And again, do not we squeak and gibber (in our discordant, screech-owlish debatings and recriminatings) ; and glide bodeful, and feeble, and fearful; or uproar and revel in our mad Dance of the Dead, — till the scent of the morning air summons us to our still Home; and dreamy Night becomes awake and Day? Where now is Alexander of Macedon: does the steel Host, that yelled in fierce battle-shouts at Issus and Arbela, remain behind him; or have they all vanished utterly, even as perturbed Goblins...
الصفحة 87 - Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance ; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility ? This is no metaphor, it is a simple, scientific fact: we start out of Nothingness, take figure, and are Apparitions; round us, as round the veriest spectre, is Eternity; and to Eternity minutes are as years and aeons.
الصفحة 248 - The former view of a countless multitude of worlds annihilates as it were my importance as an animal creature...
الصفحة 189 - English speaking peoples in the fact that it furnishes the root words to that part of our vocabulary which is more especially the language of thought and reflection, while the Teutonic or Gothic ground-work is the language of sensuous experience and of common life. Hence it happens that even a little study of Latin makes a great difference in the grasp of the mind as regards generalization and principles.
الصفحة 95 - In the presence of this miracle of art I forget all else, and I myself take a lofty position for the purpose of looking upon it in a worthy manner. My breast seems to enlarge and swell with reverence, like the breasts of those who were filled with the spirit of prophecy, and I feel myself transported to Delos and into the...
الصفحة 88 - Thus by the Divine Purpose of tho Universe—by the Absolute — every deed is seen in its true light, in the entire compass of its effects. Just as we strive in our human laws to establish justice by turning back upon the criminal the effects of his deeds, so in fact when placed " under the form of Eternity...
الصفحة 94 - ... structure just so much only of the material as was necessary to carry out his design and render it visible. This Apollo exceeds all other figures of him as much as the Apollo of Homer excels him whom later poets paint. His stature is loftier than that of man, and his attitude speaks of the greatness with which he is filled. An eternal spring, as in the happy fields of Elysium, clothes with the charms of youth the graceful manliness of ripened years, and plays with softness and tenderness about...
الصفحة 247 - Two things fill the soul with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the oftener and more prolongedly one is busied with reflection upon them : the starry heavens above me, and the moral law within me." Under such a teacher it will be impossible for our children to grow up in the naive and superficial view of the scoffer, or again, in that equally destructive and ruinous attitude of...

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