Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second half the Harvard freshmen did rather better work and went at it with a great deal more snap. Yale was very much over-ma chod and perhaps the score with Corbett's goal from the field counted in, would give a fairer idea of the strength of the teams than the score which was actually given...
Schopenhauer's style is in contrast with his temperament. He was morbidly pessimistic and vain, but his style is lucid and clear. His great work is the "World as Will and Idea." He asks what one's true nature is and comes to the conclusion that the whole inner life is in the will, i. e., the active nature as such. This is deeper than intellect and at the basis of all seeing and knowing...
...sacred books of the Pharsee religion begin with the lofty monotheis tic idea; but this degenerated as time went...
...contemporary Laotse was a man of a totally different stamp. Both he and Confucius were deeply religious; Laotse's religion, however, was embodied in the idea of kindness and love. Laotse's teaching was one of a mystical connection with God; that of Confucius was active service with man. Each in his way was perfect, yet each lacked the qualities of the other. The final perfection came in Jesus, who taught a service to man together with a mystical reverence...
...that it is needless to give her many bibliographical notes. The best life is the one by Gwinner in the edition of 1878. It is not well to become acquainted with Schopenhauer by means of his briefer essays, before reading the first volume of his "World as Will and Idea," which is by all means the best possible introduction to his thought. Helen Zimmern's "Arthur Schopenhauer" gives a sketch of the Philosopher s life in English, a sketch made valuable chiefly by the quotations from foreign sources inserted in the text. Schopenhauer was born in 1788, and died...