 Man is born not to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out where the problem begins, and then to restrain himself within the limits of the comprehensible.  The Wisdom of Goethe - Trang 78bởi Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie - 1883 - 246 trangXem Toàn bộ - Giới thiệu về cuốn sách này
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann - 1850 - 472 trang
...needful support. " After all, what do we know, and how far can we go with all our wit ? " Man is born not to solve the problems of the universe, but to find..." His faculties are not sufficient to measure the actions of the universe ; and an attempt to explain the outer world by reason is, with his narrow point... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 528 trang
...vol. ip 161. Goethe's maxim with respect to Metaphysics. — " Man is born not to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out where the problem...himself within the limits of the comprehensible." — Ibid. vol. i. p. 272. Goethe's theory of the intention of the Supernatural with regard to the Visible.... | |
 | 1856 - 606 trang
...it, from the eternal treasures, liberty, victory, knowledge, rapture. JOHN FOSTER. Man is born not to solve the problems of the universe, but to find...problem begins, and then to restrain himself within the limit* of the comprehensible. Goem. The worst enemies of a principle are those professed friends who... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 494 trang
...with respect to Metaphysics. — " Man is born not to solve the problem of the universe, but to fina out where the problem begins, and then to restrain himself within the limits of the comprehensible." — Jbid. vol. i. p. 272. Goethe's theory of the intention of the Supernatural with regard to the Visible.... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 356 trang
...faculties, and so to take rest in the philosophic conclusion that " man was not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out where the problem...himself within the limits of the comprehensible." When this is the solution adopted, however, the result is represented as by no means the same as in... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - 1865 - 284 trang
...overcome and firmly renounced. Surely Goethe says well and wisely, " Man is born not to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out where the problem...himself within the limits of the comprehensible." In a word, the subjective in all forms of it is a worship of self, while divided and diseased ; it... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - 1865 - 284 trang
...overcome and firmly renounced. Surely Goethe says well and wisely, " Man is born not to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out where the problem...himself within the limits of the comprehensible." In a word, the subjective in all forms of it is a worship of self, while divided and diseased ; it... | |
 | 1867 - 548 trang
...for that which is the inevitable affirmation of the reason. * But man, declared Goethe, is born not to solve the problems of the universe, but " to find...himself within the limits of the comprehensible.''! Action, not speculation, is the law of his nature. It is the essential character of the Spirit of evil... | |
 | John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 576 trang
...reference rather to metaphysical than to physical speculations): " Man is born not to solve the problem of the Universe, but to find out where the problem...himself within the limits of the comprehensible." 209. "Fond": /.;. foolish. 212. "fruits of palm-tree" : dates ; or one kind of them. 225. " Than of... | |
 | David Mather Masson - 1874 - 390 trang
...vol. i. p. 161. Goethe's Maxim with respect to Metaphysics. — "Man is born not to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out where the problem...himself within the limits of the comprehensible." — Ibid. vol. ip 272. Goethe's Theory of the intention of the Supernatural with regard to the Visible.... | |
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