Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the GoodD. Appleton & Company, 1854 - Всего страниц: 391 |
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Стр. 283 - Moral truths considered in themselves have no less certainty than mathematical truths. The idea of a deposit being given, I ask whether the idea of faithfully keeping it is not necessarily attached to it, as to the idea of a triangle is attached the idea that its three angles are equal to two right angles. You may withhold a deposit ; but, in withholding it, do not believe that you change the nature of things, nor that you make it possible for a deposit ever to become property.
Стр. 172 - ... rules, there is an abyss. True composition is nothing else than the most powerful means of expression. Expression not only furnishes the general rules of art, it also gives the principle that allows of their classification. In fact, every classification supposes a principle that serves as a common measure. Such a principle has been sought in pleasure, and the first of arts has seemed that which gives the most vivid joys. But we have proved that the object of art is not pleasure — the more or...
Стр. 10 - It sustains religious sentiment; it second? true art, poesy worthy of the name, and a great literature; it is the support of right ; it equally repels the craft of the demagogue and tyranny ; it teaches all men to respect and value themselves, and, little by little, it conducts human societies to the true republic, that dream of all generous souls which in our times can be realized in Europe only by constitutional monarchy.
Стр. 182 - II tombe sur son lit sans chaleur et sans vie. Jugez combien ce coup frappe tous les esprits : La moitié s'épouvante et sort avec des cris; Mais ceux qui de la cour ont un plus long usage Sur les yeux de César composent leur visage. Cependant sur son lit il demeure penché; D'aucun étonnement il ne paraît touché : « Ce mal dont vous craignez, dit-il, la violence A souvent sans péril attaqué son enfance.
Стр. 171 - Every work of art that does not express an idea, signifies nothing ; in addressing itself to such or such a sense, it must penetrate to the mind, to the soul, and bear thither a thought, a sentiment, capable of touching or elevating it" (171). " Genius is a ready and sure perception of the right proportion in which the ideal and the natural form and thought ought to be united. This union is the perfection of art.
Стр. 2 - LECTURES ON THE TRUE, THE BEAUTIFUL, AND THE GOOD. By VICTOR COUSIN. Translated by 0. W. Wight. One neat vol. 8vu. "M. Cousin is tho greatest philosopher of France."— Sir William Hamilton.