The Travel Diary of a Philosopher, Band 1Harcourt, Brace, 1925 For other editions, see Author Catalog. |
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Seite 15 - ... and nothing - It has no character - it enjoys light and shade; it lives in gusto, be it foul or fair, high or low, rich or poor, mean or elevated - It has as much delight in conceiving an lago as an Imogen . . . A poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence, because he has no Identity - he is continually in for and filling some other Body...
Seite 282 - Thus the East has succeeded in what has never yet been reached in the West: the visible representation of the Divine as such. I know nothing more grand in this world than the figure of Buddha; it is an absolutely perfect embodiment of spirituality in the visible domain.
Seite 70 - Whenever I meet one of the representatives of this people I am shocked by the contrast between the dearth of their talents, the limitation of their horizon and the measure of recognition which every one of them exacts from me, as from everybody else.
Seite 16 - I therefore begin my journey round the world. Europe has nothing more to give me. Its life is too familiar to force my being to new developments. Apart from this, it is too narrowly confined. The whole of Europe is essentially of one spirit. I wish to go to latitudes where my life must become quite different to make existence possible, where understanding necessitates a radical renewal of one's means of comprehension — latitudes where I will be forced to forget that which up to now I knew and was...
Seite 53 - Every state is necessary, and in so far as it is necessary it is good. The blossom does not deny the leaf and the leaf does not deny the stalk nor the stalk the root. The general rule is that we should pass from stage to stage gradually. The liberated soul is not indifferent to the welfare of the world.
Seite 310 - ... to be the selected childishness, laziness and incapacity of their race.) Behind these yellow-robed, round-shaven bonzes he sees the figure and philosophy of Buddha. He worships with youthful happiness at his new-found shrine. Buddha's was the greatest mind among all the founders of religion. . . . The scholars often wonder in their simplicity, which is their divine right, as to why Christ and Buddha mean so much more than all the great spirits of the world that preceded and succeeded them, since...
Seite 256 - Shankara's logical competence is beyond all question. But he was more than a mere logician. Thus it seemed a matter of course to him, that different means should be used for different ends. In practice no one gets beyond dualism ; it is impossible to think, wish, strive for, act at all without implicitly postulating duality. Why then deny it ? It alters nothing " Are the Indians then eclectics ? Indeed they are not.
Seite 14 - What, then, is the. explanation of the deeply rooted instinct which bade me travel round the world — an instinct no less imperious than the one which in earlier days bade me move, in unfailing sequence, from clime to clime, to maintain the equilibrium of my precarious health by external means? It is not curiosity: my antipathy towards all 'sight-seeing,' in so far as it does not bear any relation to my inner aspirations, has steadily increased. Nor is it in pursuit of any search, for there is no...
Seite 220 - Nowhere in Europe," he mourned, "is there such an inartistic atmosphere as in my home; thus I lack the nursery thanks to which Florentines in a similar position to myself possess taste, and delight in semblance, as a matter of course" ; * — it is the only modest remark in Keyserling. The wanderer and the Viking in him thirsted for space and strange lands ; he dreamed of new philosophies to conquer, of new religions to deepen him ; he wondered why Schopenhauer had found Hindu thought so profound....
Seite 309 - Paul had not appeared, a man who, being a child of the world, intelligible to every one, yet finally grew to be a saint, we would know nothing of Jesus any more. And that Christianity developed into a world religion, into glad tidings for the whole of the West, is the desert of St. Augustine. This most powerful of all ethical natures the West has produced gave the human example thanks to which only Christ Himself could become one. His life proved that sin implied not only an obstacle but also assistance,...