 | J. D. Bell - Conduct of life - 1850 - 486 pages
..." Unconsciousness of all healthy vital action in Man." He assumes that " the healthy understanding is not the logical, argumentative, but the intuitive;" for "the end of understanding," says he, "is not to prove and find reasons, but to know and believe." Thus, he denies that the logician... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 pages
...Wells 1 or does the Boxer hit better for knowing that he has a flexor longus and a flexor brevis ? argnmenla- : live, but the Intuitive; for the end of Under-)' ' standing is noi to prove, and find... | |
 | American essays - 1905 - 880 pages
...our outward, world, what is mechanical lies open to us; not what is dynamical and has vitality;" and "The healthy Understanding, we should say, is not the Logical, argumentative, but the Intuitive." Newman, in his shorter, neater, more transparent way, sums it in the Grammar thus : Man's "progress... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 494 pages
...figure at Sadler's Wells ? Or the boxer hit better for knowing that he has a jieror and a Jltror 6wii ? But indeed, as in the higher case of the Poet, so...the true force is an unconscious one. The healthy UnderstHffoTng, we should' sayyis' not TfreTLogical, ^rgitnrentaTive, but Jhfi Jntmttve-i for-the^end... | |
 | J. D. Bell - Conduct of life - 1860 - 478 pages
...him, " Unconsciousness of all healthy vital action in Man." He assumes that "the healthy understanding is not the logical, argumentative, but the intuitive;" for "the end of unders ton ding," says he, "is not to prove and find reasons, but to knoiv and believe." Thus, he denies... | |
 | William Threlkeld Edwards - 1862 - 178 pages
...read like original works. We must make one quotation from the Essays : — " The healthy understanding is not the logical, argumentative, but the intuitive,...to prove and find reasons, but to know and believe. In practical matters has it not been almost proverbial that the man of logic cannot prosper ? His vital... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1873 - 582 pages
...Wells 1 or does the Boxer hit better for knowing that he has a flexor longus and a flexor hrevis 7 But, indeed, as in the higher case of the Poet, so...Inquirer, the true force is an unconscious one. The hefthhy DncTerslahdin^, we should s'ayT is not the Logical, argumentative, but the jntuilivej for the... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 428 pages
...Sadler's Wells? Or does the boxer hit better for knowing that he has a flexor longus and a, flexor brevis? But indeed, as in the higher case of the Poet, so here in that of the Speaker and Inquirer, the t1me force is an unconscious one. The healthy Understanding, we should say, is not the Logical, argumentative,... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...seasons, and in winter summer is in his heart. There is the south 1 Thoreau. The healthy understanding as they are represented by those who know them. Johnson....comfort to that 35 grief / Which they themselves not f CarlyU. The heart always sees before the head can SO see. Carlyle. The heart aye's the part aye / That... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - English literature - 1894 - 632 pages
...Sadler's Wells? or does the boxer hit better ibr knowing that he has a flexor lonytis and a flexor brevis? But indeed, as in the higher case of the Poet, so...is an unconscious one. The healthy Understanding, w&-gfiouJcl"'say, is not the Logical, argumentative, but the Intuitive ; for the end of Understanding... | |
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The healthy Understanding, we should say, is not the Logical, argumentative, but the Intuitive ; for the end of Understanding is not to prove and find reasons, but to know and believe. 
