Charles Sanders
Charles Sanders
real sight vision
One will meet, for example, the virtual assumption that what is relative to thought cannot be real. But why not, exactly? Red is relative to sight, but the fact that this or that is in that relation to vision that we call being red is not itself relative to sight; it is a real fact.
character ought universe
The universe ought to be presumed too vast to have any character.
doubt
We cannot begin with complete doubt.
philosophical men facts
Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.
prayer facts praying
We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.
taken views able
But the extraordinary insight which some persons are able to gain of others from indications so slight that it is difficult to ascertain what they are, is certainly rendered more comprehensible by the view here taken.
truth real mean
All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain solution to each question to which they can be applied.... This great law is embodied in the conception of truth and reality. The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.
law excellence want
Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.
philosophy progress atheism
All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.
men ideas intellectual
It is terrible to see how a single unclear idea, a single formula without meaning, lurking in a young man's head, will sometimes act like an obstruction of inert matter in an artery, hindering the nutrition of the brain and condemning its victim to pine away in the fullness of his intellectual vigor and in the midst of intellectual plenty.
past thinking lakes
Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.
imagination trifling mere
Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .
might practicals objects
Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object.
truth science gambling
There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.