| 1919 - 1030 pages
...acknowledging the all-'but omnipotence of alien forces." "Real life," he says again, "is, to most men, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible;...knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barriers to creative activity. . . . Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts... | |
| 1916 - 1506 pages
...Consciousness." Edwin B. Holt. London: George Allen and Company, Ltd. 1914. Pp. xil + 343. [ie, of mathematics] knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no...activity embodying in splendid edifices the passionate aspirations after the perfect from which all great work springs. Remote from human passions, remote... | |
| Bertrand Russell - 1910 - 202 pages
...Gilbert Murray. and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement. Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise...from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos, where pure thought can dwell... | |
| Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Gustavus Watts Cunningham - 1911 - 740 pages
...daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement. Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise...from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos, where pure thought can dwell... | |
| George Santayana - 1913 - 236 pages
...suffused with a serene radiance and full of a peculiar sweetness and consolation. " Real life," he writes, "is to most men a long secondbest, a perpetual compromise...the possible; but the world of pure reason knows no com- ] promise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity embodying in splendid... | |
| Robert Édouard Moritz - 1914 - 434 pages
...daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement. Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the real and the possible; but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations,... | |
| Bertrand Russell - 1918 - 232 pages
...daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement. Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise...from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of Nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos, where pure thought can dwell... | |
| Bertrand Russell - 1918 - 256 pages
...daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement. Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise...world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical liraita1 This passage was pointed out to me by Professor Gilbert Murray. tions, no barrier to the creative... | |
| Irwin Edman - 1919 - 480 pages
...366-368. illusions, and compromises to which all theory is subjected in the world of action. Real life is, to most men, a long secondbest, a perpetual compromise...from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos, where pure thought can dwell... | |
| Bertrand Russell - 1919 - 254 pages
...compromise, no practical limita1 This passage was pointed out to me by Professor Gilbert Murray. Aions, no barrier to the creative activity embodying in splendid edifices the passionate aspiration after the perjfect from which all great work springs. Remote from .human passions, remote even from the pitiful... | |
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