Bill M
January 15th 08, 11:31 AM
More religious forgery!
"Bill M" > wrote in message
.. .
> and, as soon as it comes, we are satiated. It is the
> same in play, and the same in the search for truth. In disputes we like to
> see the clash of opinions, but not at all to contemplate truth when found.
> To observe it with pleasure, we have to see it emerge out of strife. So in
> the passions, there is pleasure in seeing the collision of two contraries;
> but when one acquires the mastery, it becomes only brutality. We never
> seek
> things for themselves, but for the search. Likewise in plays, scenes which
> do not rouse the emotion of fear are worthless, so are extreme and
> hopeless
> misery, brutal lust, and extreme cruelty.
>
> 136. A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.
>
> 137. Without examining every particular pursuit, it is enough to
> comprehend
> them under diversion.
>
> 138. Men naturally slaters and of all callings, save in their own rooms.
>
> 139. Diversion.--When I have occasionally set myself to consider the
> different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose
> themselves at court or in war, whence arise so many quarrels, passions,
> bold
> and often bad ventures, etc., I have discovered that all the unhappiness
> of
> men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their
> own
> chamber. A man who has enough to live on, if he knew how to stay with
> pleasure at home, would not leave it to go to sea or to besiege a town. A
> commission in the army would not be bought so dearly, but that it is found
> insufferable not to budge from the town; and men only seek conversation
> and
> entering games, because they cannot remain with pleasure at home.
>
> But, on further consideration, when, after finding the cause of all our
> ills, I have sought to discover the reason of it, I have found that there
> is
> one very real reason, namely, the natural pove
>
>
"Bill M" > wrote in message
.. .
> and, as soon as it comes, we are satiated. It is the
> same in play, and the same in the search for truth. In disputes we like to
> see the clash of opinions, but not at all to contemplate truth when found.
> To observe it with pleasure, we have to see it emerge out of strife. So in
> the passions, there is pleasure in seeing the collision of two contraries;
> but when one acquires the mastery, it becomes only brutality. We never
> seek
> things for themselves, but for the search. Likewise in plays, scenes which
> do not rouse the emotion of fear are worthless, so are extreme and
> hopeless
> misery, brutal lust, and extreme cruelty.
>
> 136. A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.
>
> 137. Without examining every particular pursuit, it is enough to
> comprehend
> them under diversion.
>
> 138. Men naturally slaters and of all callings, save in their own rooms.
>
> 139. Diversion.--When I have occasionally set myself to consider the
> different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose
> themselves at court or in war, whence arise so many quarrels, passions,
> bold
> and often bad ventures, etc., I have discovered that all the unhappiness
> of
> men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their
> own
> chamber. A man who has enough to live on, if he knew how to stay with
> pleasure at home, would not leave it to go to sea or to besiege a town. A
> commission in the army would not be bought so dearly, but that it is found
> insufferable not to budge from the town; and men only seek conversation
> and
> entering games, because they cannot remain with pleasure at home.
>
> But, on further consideration, when, after finding the cause of all our
> ills, I have sought to discover the reason of it, I have found that there
> is
> one very real reason, namely, the natural pove
>
>