 Keep always to the point, or with an eye upon it, and instead of saying things to make people stare and wonder, say what will withhold them hereafter from wondering and staring. This is philosophy; to make remote things tangible, common things extensively...  The Edinburgh Review - Halaman 4971846Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | 1895 - 862 halaman
...inapplicable to profit and cultivation a little way below the surface. And again : — This is philosophy, to make remote things tangible, common things extensively...common, and to leave the least necessary for the last. Truth is not reasonably the main and ultimate object of philosophy ; philosophy should seek truth merely... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 halaman
...have for the last quarter of a century been making upon the Greek ; and declares that he recognizes no higher aim in a philosopher than to make remote...and sonorous, his (Plato's) lungs seem to play the belter for the absence of the heart. His imagination is the most conspicuous, buoyed up by swelling... | |
 | 1847 - 796 halaman
...withhold them hereafter from wondering and staring. This isphilosophy : to make remote things tangible, useful things extensively common, and to leave the least necessary for the last.' Such may be Mr. Landor's view of the objects of philosophy. Such, assuredly, was not Plato's. Plato... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1853 - 508 halaman
...and wonder, say what will withhold them hereafter from wondering and staring. This is philosophy ; to make remote things tangible, common things extensively...common, and to leave the least necessary for the last. I have always a suspicion of sonorous sentences. The full shell sounds little, but shows by that little... | |
 | 1854 - 378 halaman
...and wonder, say what will withold thorn horraftrr from wondering and staring. This is philosophy : to make remote things tangible, common things extensively...common, and to leave the least necessary for the last. I have always a suspicion of sonorous sentence». — Landor. A NORMAN STORY. NOT many evenings ago,... | |
 | John Forster - 1869 - 618 halaman
...wonder, say what will withhold them here" after from wondering and staring. This is philoso" phy ; to make remote things tangible, common things " extensively..." and to leave the least necessary for the last." Of the sayings having personal reference, some may be even the more interesting and better worth quoting... | |
 | Sidney Colvin - 1881 - 250 halaman
...abstract truth, should be its aim. "This is philosophy, to make remote things tangible, common tilings extensively useful, useful things extensively common, and to leave the least necessary for the last. . . . Truth is not reasonably the main and ultimate object of philosophy; philosophy should seek truth... | |
 | Sidney Colvin - 1882 - 434 halaman
...stare and wonder, say what will withhold them hereafter from wondering and staring. This is philosophy; to make remote things tangible, common things extensively...common, and to leave the least necessary for the last. I have always a suspicion of sonorous sentences. The full shell sounds little, but shows by that little... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1883 - 482 halaman
...and wonder, say what will withhold them hereafter from wondering and staring. This is philosophy : to make remote things tangible, common things extensively...common, and to leave the least necessary for the last. I have always a suspicion of sonorous sentences. The full shell sounds little, but shows by that little... | |
 | Edward Waterman Evans - 1892 - 240 halaman
...in so far as he formulated his ideas, gravitated towards the utilitarian side. " This is philosophy, to make remote things tangible, common things extensively...common, and to leave the least necessary for the last. . . . Truth is not ^ reasonably the main and ultimate object of philosophy ; philosophy should seek... | |
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