Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
conceited psychology may
A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.
wake-up world waking
The great cognitive shift is an expansion of consciousness from the perspectival form contained in the lives of particular creatures to an objective, world-encompassing form that exists both individually and intersubjectively. It was originally a biological evolutionary process, and in our species it has become a collective cultural process as well. Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.
imagination murder commit
Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.
dying should objects
I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.
ifs-and consciousness states
fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.
occupation life-is intense
Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.
unhappy-person law suffering
It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.
vices population misery
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
encouragement giving balance
On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by maintaining such a balance between produce and consumption as will give the greatest exchangeable value to the results of the national industry.
opposites scales feathers
A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.
population faster
Capitals accumulate faster than population
equality simple virtue
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.
encouragement population multiplication
The most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products.
mercy blindness seeking
God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!