 In this lies Man's true freedom; in determination to worship only the God created by our own love of the good, to respect only the heaven which inspires the insight of our best moments. In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of...  My Life and Adventures - Page 340by earl John Francis Stanley Russell Russell - 1923 - 360 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1918 - 634 pages
...created by our own love of the good, to respect only the heaven which inspires the insight of our own best moments. In action, in desire, we must submit...free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.' * Read in this light, the phenomenon of Realism is simply a renewed sense of the need of fact. If man... | |
 | Thomas Slater - Church and social problems - 1918 - 84 pages
...to a tyranny of outside forces. It is only in imagination that we can indulge in dreams of freedom. In thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from...free even while we live from the tyranny of death.* Some time ago I attended a lecture given by a man of science on a subject connected with eugenics.... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - Mathematics - 1918 - 256 pages
...Jby our_Qwn lo.ve . fiUJie gQQsLlo Aspect only thejieayen_wjiich inspires- the-uisight of ourxbest moments. In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside foi'ces ; but in thought, in aspiration, we arc free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty... | |
 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan - Philosophy and religion - 1920 - 484 pages
...pieces in the world of reality, we can only seek consolation in the world of art and imagination. " In thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from...free even while we live from the tyranny of death " (Philosophical Essays, p. 63). Without marking time on earth, let the spirit of man fly from the... | |
 | Ernest Scott - Philosophy - 1920 - 370 pages
...Who is to say how private enterprise would come out if it tried its hand at state work?— Huxley. In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to...thought, in aspiration, we are free — free from our fellow men, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live,... | |
 | Economics - 1924 - 1180 pages
...Worship — an essay that deserves to rank at least as high as Stevenson's Pulvis et Umbra — -we read : In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to...thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellow men, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live,... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - Free thought - 1953 - 294 pages
...of the unconscious universe. If power is bad, as it seems to be, let us reject it from our hearts. In this lies man's true freedom: in determination...thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellow men, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live,... | |
 | English literature - 1918 - 1208 pages
...created by our own love of the good, to respect only the heaven which inspires the insight of our own best moments. In action, in desire, we must submit...free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.' * Read in this light, the phenomenon of Realism is simply a renewed sense of the need of fact. If man... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - Philosophy - 1992 - 748 pages
...of the unconscious universe. If Power is bad, as it seems to be, let us reject it from our hearts. In this lies Man's true freedom: in determination...thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellow men, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live,... | |
 | Howard Thurman - Religion - 1999 - 360 pages
...1903i: 415-24! shortly after an experience of "mystical illumination" prompted him to embrace pacifism. "In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces, " Russell wrote in this famous essay, "but in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellow men. free... | |
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