The Meaning of Life: Insights of the World's Great ThinkersThe book aims to present the wisdom of sages, great thinkers, renowned writers, and philosophers, of many countries and time periods, in their own words, regarding life. The book also aims to place the numerous quotations from these sources in a structured organization, with introductory and explanatory comments and comparisons. Main Topics or Fields - See Organization or Principal Parts. |
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... Give but good nourishment to the body , pour into its tubes vigorous juices , and ... then the soul ... arms itself with courage . Frederick the Great invited La Mettrie to continue his medical and physiological investigations in Berlin ...
... Give but good nourishment to the body , pour into its tubes vigorous juices , and ... then the soul ... arms itself with courage . Frederick the Great invited La Mettrie to continue his medical and physiological investigations in Berlin ...
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... give Nature a chance ; she knows her business better than we do . " Understanding of Montaigne's point was illus- trated by a change in the practice of United States forest rangers . They now leave in place debris lying in a forest ...
... give Nature a chance ; she knows her business better than we do . " Understanding of Montaigne's point was illus- trated by a change in the practice of United States forest rangers . They now leave in place debris lying in a forest ...
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... give praises to God . English and American Writers . In 1759 , more than a half - millennium after the time of Saint Francis , a poem appeared in print , in England , depicting animals as more praiseworthy than humans . ( We referred to ...
... give praises to God . English and American Writers . In 1759 , more than a half - millennium after the time of Saint Francis , a poem appeared in print , in England , depicting animals as more praiseworthy than humans . ( We referred to ...
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... give this [ which is mine ] for that [ which is yours ] . " Voltaire ( 1694-1778 ) , by contrast , derided Des- cartes's negative viewpoint on animal intellect by ex- claiming : ( 104 ) " What a pitiful ... thing to have said that ...
... give this [ which is mine ] for that [ which is yours ] . " Voltaire ( 1694-1778 ) , by contrast , derided Des- cartes's negative viewpoint on animal intellect by ex- claiming : ( 104 ) " What a pitiful ... thing to have said that ...
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Contents
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Part 2 | 71 |
Who Am I and What Am I? | 77 |
Is Will Defeated by Causality Fate | 109 |
Part 3 | 133 |
Is There Meaning in Our Lives? If | 153 |
How Do We March from Childhood to | 165 |
What Are the Basic Truths About Sex | 189 |
Civilization? | 219 |
How Should We Appraise Religious | 231 |
Source References | 249 |
Index of Authors and Anonymous | 279 |
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Page 48 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 228 - Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers,, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Page 166 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 34 - Gave thee life, and bid thee feed By the stream and o'er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing, woolly, bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice?
Page 35 - And what shoulder and what art Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And, when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand and what dread feet?
Page 167 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Page 177 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Page 32 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.