Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

690 DAVIDHUME the vast multitude and diversity of those actions that excite our approbation or dislike, to search for some commo ...

282 AUGUSTINE the past, and likewise a hundred years hence a long time in the future; but we call— say—ten days ago a short time ...

ANENQUIRYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(SECTIONII) 691 sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its ...

CONFESSIONS(BOOKXI) 283 What kind of time, then, can be referred to as “a long time”? Future time, per- haps? Then we must not s ...

692 DAVIDHUME Secondly. If it happens, from a defect of the organ, that a man is not susceptible of any species of sensation, we ...

284 AUGUSTINE when it is claimed that future events are seen, it is not that these things are seen in them- selves, because they ...

ANENQUIRYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(SECTIONIII) 693 is employed without any meaning or idea (as is but too frequent), we need ...

CONFESSIONS(BOOKXI) 285 only hope to measure it as it passes by, because once it has passed by there will be no measuring; it wi ...

694 DAVIDHUME That these principles serve to connect ideas will not, I believe, be much doubted. A picture naturally leads our t ...

286 AUGUSTINE I want to know the essence and nature of time, whereby we measure the movement of bodies and say, for instance, t ...

ANENQUIRYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(SECTIONIV) 695 observable, has been little cultivated, either by the ancients or moderns; ...

CONFESSIONS(BOOKXI) 287 moving and sometimes stationary, we measure not only its motion but also its static periods in terms of ...

696 DAVIDHUME arguments a priori.In like manner, when an effect is supposed to depend upon an intri- cate machinery or secret st ...

288 AUGUSTINE voice is past and is a voice no longer. Before it sounded forth it was a future thing, so it could not be measured ...

ANENQUIRYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(SECTIONIV) 697 Hence we may discover the reason why no philosopher, who is rational and mo ...

CONFESSIONS(BOOKXI) 289 phenomena leave in you, which abides after they have passed by: that is what I measure as a present real ...

698 DAVIDHUME What is the foundation of all conclusions from experience?this implies a new ques- tion, which may be of more diff ...

290 AUGUSTINE St. Augustine,City of God,Books XI, 26 and XII, 1–9 from Fathers of the Church; Writings of Saint Augustine; Saint ...

ANENQUIRYCONCERNINGHUMANUNDERSTANDING(SECTIONIV) 699 always is inferred. But if you insist that the inference is made by a chain ...

CITY OFGOD(BOOKXII) 291 BOOKXII CHAPTER 1 In the previous book we saw something of the beginning of the two cities, so far as an ...