 | Mary Agnes Hamilton - 1926 - 232 sider
...our happiness, is the purpose of life. He had no patience with any individual claim to happiness. " I asked myself : What is this that, ever since earliest years, thou hast been fretting and fuming and lamenting and self-tormenting, on account of? Say it in a word : is it because thou art not HAPPY ?... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 sider
...Nay, unless my Algebra deceive me, Unity itself divided by Zero will give Infinity. Make thy claim l a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon. 18 I said to time1 write : ' It is only with Renunciation (Entsagen] that Life, properly speaking, can be said to... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1927 - 296 sider
...Nay, unless my Algebra deceive me, Unity itself divided by Zero will give Infinity. Make thy claim of wages a zero, then; thou hast the world under thy...earliest years, thou hast been fretting and fuming, and lamenting and self-tormenting, on account of? Say it in a word: is it not because thou art not HAPPY?... | |
 | Joyce Oramel Hertzler - 1928 - 350 sider
...go with him twain." 291 Other great social thinkers have recognized the same truths. Carlyle says: "It is only with renunciation (Entsagen) that life, properly speaking, can be said to begin," 292 and Lecky holds that "The first condition of all really great moral excellence is a spirit of genuine... | |
 | 1902 - 868 sider
...characteristic of all the Romanticists, and explains some of the diatribes in "Sartor Resartus:"— I asked myself: What is this that ever since earliest years thou hast been fretting and fuming, and lamenting and self-tormenting on account of? Say it In a word; is it not because thou art not Happyf... | |
 | 1913 - 506 sider
...and this not with any low spirit of barter and exchange, but "with a glad heart." To quote Carlyle : "Well did the wisest of our time write : 'It is only with renunciation that life properly speaking may be said to begin.' " Having exercised the noble and distinguishing... | |
 | Ernst Cassirer - 1946 - 320 sider
...Nay, unless my Algebra deceive me, Unity itself divided by Zero will give Infinity. Make thy claim of wages a zero then; thou hast the world under thy feet. . . . Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe." 42 This emphasis on man's activity, on his practical We and... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1984 - 548 sider
...Duty which lies nearest thee") ; the doctrine of Renunciation, or Entsagen, and "Worship of Sorrow" ("It is only with Renunciation [Entsagen} that Life, properly speaking, can be said to begin"); the doctrine of Reverence ("Know that there is in man a quite indestructible Reverence for whatsoever... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1988 - 264 sider
...Nay, unless my Algebra deceive me, Unity itself divided by %ero will give Infinity. Make thy claim of wages a zero, then ; thou hast the world under...earliest years, thou hast been fretting and fuming, and lamenting and selftormenting, on account of? Say it in a word ; is it not because thou art not HAPPY?... | |
 | Olav Severijnen - 1989 - 388 sider
...(het begrip van de "TStigkeit" bijvoorbeeld) en ook elders is er sprake van een directe aansluiting: "'Well did the Wisest of our time write: "It is only...that Life, properly speaking, can be said to begin'"" (144). Maar Carlyle gaat verder dan Goethe: hij drijft dat op de spits wat Goethe slechts aan wilde... | |
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So true is it, what I then said, that the Fraction of Life can be increased in value not so much by increasing your Numerator as by lessening your Denominator. Nay, unless my Algebra deceive me, Unity itself divided by Zero will give Infinity. Make thy... 
