 In the Symbol proper, what we can call a Symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there.  Sartor Resartus - Page 199by Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 432 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ray Grasse - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 340 pages
...is, most of us are profoundly affected by the karmic forces at work in our lives. As Carlyle wrote, "By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched." Like actors playing out roles from scripts handed us from offstage, we are generally unaware that we... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - Science - 1997 - 510 pages
...end to it. The Fall (p. 45) Carlyle, Thomas The moment of discovery, "spontaneous illumination . . ." The infinite is made to blend itself with the finite, to stand visible, as it were, attainable there. Quoted by Roger A. MacGowan and Frederick I. Ordway, III in Intelligence... | |
 | Ursula Lord - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 382 pages
...the haze needs the finite glow; and so the two together constitute a symbol in Carlyle's view of it: "the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite,...to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there" (180). 111 Woolf, "Modern Fiction," in The Common Reader, 189, 194-5. 112 Ibid., 188. 113 Ibid., 190.... | |
 | C.C. Gaither, Alma E Cavazos-Gaither - Mathematics - 1998 - 506 pages
...end to it. The Fall (p. 45) Carlyle, Thomas The moment of discovery, 'spontaneous illumination . . .' The infinite is made to blend itself with the finite, to stand visible, as it were, attainable there. Quoted in Roger A. MacGowan and Frederick I. Ordway, III Intelligence... | |
 | Vassiliki Kolocotroni - History - 1998 - 658 pages
...word its full value: 'In the Symbol proper, what we can call a Symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation...stand visible, and as it were, attainable there.' It is in such a sense as this that the word Symbolism has been used to describe a movement which, during... | |
 | John Herlihy - Philosophy - 2005 - 198 pages
...double significance — In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation...guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched.' Thomas Carlyle, a Scottish essayist of the 19th century, in his Safor Resartus, bk. 3, chap. ?, as... | |
 | Ming Dong Gu - Philosophy - 2005 - 362 pages
...be!" He went on to say: "In the Symbol proper, what we can call a Symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation...Finite, to stand visible, and as it were attainable, there."23 Similarly, the paradoxical connotations of yiwei (lingering taste) are compatible with Lao... | |
 | Ray Morrison - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 545 pages
...double significance ... In the Symbol proper, what we can call a Symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. (Symons, Symbolist Movement, 2)... | |
 | Benjamin Blech, Do Not Use Do Not Use - Religion - 2006 - 206 pages
...wrote: "In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: In the symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation...guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched." Imagine! Because of these symbols, we sit at our Seder and can experience the same feelings as Jews... | |
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