 And, whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human mind, and the summum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman.  Religion and the Rise of Capitalism - Strona viiiautor: R. H.Tawney - Liczba stron: 337Ograniczony podgląd - Informacje o książce
 | Harvey Goldberg - 1962 - Liczba stron: 612
...compromises of politics, shaped his life. "Whatever the world thinks," Bishop Berkeley once observed, "he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human mind, and the sutntnum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will indubitably make a sorry patriot and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1915 - Liczba stron: 636
...the world thinks,' writes Bishop Berkeley, 'he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human soul, and the summum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make & sorry patriot and a sorry statesman.' These words, which were quoted by Mr Arthur Balfour a few years... | |
 | Edwin S. Gaustad - 1959 - Liczba stron: 248
..."Religion & Learning." 60. Fulham Papers, 1: 249-50: letter dated April 5, 1732. merica: 1780 [H]e that hath not much meditated upon God, the human mind, and the summum bonum, may possibly be a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman. George... | |
 | Peter Gilmour - 1990 - Liczba stron: 206
...common goods to live in fairyland. 'Whatever the world thinks', he wrote in Siris (1744: 5, p. 350), 'he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human...indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman.' That last work, we should note, was both a meditation on existence, and an attempt to popularise the... | |
 | Herman E. Daly, Kenneth N. Townsend - 1992 - Liczba stron: 404
...pages of The Acquisitive Society. Quoting Berkeley's aphorism "Whatever the world thinks, he who has not much meditated upon God, the human mind and the...indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman," he notes that "the most obvious facts are the most easily forgotten. Both the existing economic order,... | |
 | George Parkin Grant - 2000 - Liczba stron: 608
...encouragement of contemplation among the social engineers. Coleridge once said: Whatever the world may opine, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human...thriving earth-worm, but will most indubitably make a blundering patriot and a sorry statesman.8 Popper considers this statement false and Plato considered... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - Liczba stron: 552
...clearest light being ever necessary to guide the most important actions. And whatever the world may opine, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human...thriving earth-worm, but will most indubitably make a blundering patriot and a sorry statesman." ESSAY XVI. Blind is that soul which from (his truth can... | |
 | 2002 - Liczba stron: 264
...theoretical ideas. I frequently remember Bishop Berkeley's assertion that he who has not meditated much upon God, the human mind and the summum bonum may...but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and statesman. I have not habitually thought much about the summum bonum except in secular terms, have... | |
 | Cornel West, Eddie S. Glaude - 2003 - Liczba stron: 1084
...embedded in the core of human life, material as well as spiritual. Bishop Berkeley spoke a simple truth: "Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated...most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman."1 The philosophical problem of religion, its truth and falsehood, represents a domain only... | |
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