Clergyman's

We may not feel as confident as once we did that the way to truth lies all open before us the moment we have brought our vague questionings to a form that ""leaves the rest to experiment.
- "Edgar A. Singer, Jr."

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."" These words which bring to a close Spinoza's masterpiece Ethics, after the manner of Geometry, sum up the experience of a life as rare as it was difficult.
- "Edgar A. Singer, Jr."

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."" These words which bring to a close Spinoza's masterpiece Ethics, after the manner of Geometry, sum up the experience of a life as rare as it was difficult.
- "Edgar A. Singer, Jr."

It is seldom given to philosophers to enter into one another's enthusiasms, but they are sometimes allowed to share a disappointment. And could anything be more generally disappointing than the attitude of a certain important group of natural philosophers toward the study of minds?
- "Edgar A. Singer, Jr."

It is seldom given to philosophers to enter into one another's enthusiasms, but they are sometimes allowed to share a disappointment. And could anything be more generally disappointing than the attitude of a certain important group of natural philosophers toward the study of minds?
- "Edgar A. Singer, Jr."

All the categories of life and mind are to my understanding of them teleological.
- "Edgar A. Singer, Jr."

I have somewhere found it recorded that as Johann Gottlieb Fichte progressed with his first reading of Kant's ""Critique of Pure Reason,"" he was moved to tears. To those who have labored through the tortured pages of the great German thinker this would be no matter for surprise, were it not for the quality of the tears: not those of vexation and baffled understanding, indeed, but of enthusiasm and sheer gratitude. For Fichte had fallen into the melancholy persuasion of Spinoza. At least, certain views of this austere thinker of the seventeenth century appeared to Fichte as no less gloomy in their implication than irresistible in the logic which led to them. Irresistible were the reasons which had driven Spinoza to look upon nature as governed by inexorable Fate. In the world as a whole there was no purpose, in its parts there was no freedom.
- "Edgar A. Singer, Jr."

Art is a messenger of discontent, yet no teacher of new ideals, but rather an inspiration to each it touches, himself to turn creator of a world-more-ideal.
- "Edgar A. Singer, Jr."

Art is a messenger of discontent, yet no teacher of new ideals, but rather an inspiration to each it touches, himself to turn creator of a world-more-ideal.
- "Edgar A. Singer, Jr."

Art is a messenger of discontent, yet no teacher of new ideals, but rather an inspiration to each it touches, himself to turn creator of a world-more-ideal.
- "Edgar A. Singer, Jr."