 | Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (baron d') - Materialism - 1834 - 320 pages
...He would be a metaphysician before he has become a practical philosopher. He quits the contemplation of realities to meditate on chimeras. He neglects...render himself happy in the world he inhabits : in short, man disdains the study of nature, except it be partially : he pursues phantoms that resemble... | |
 | Arthur Emanuel Wald - Aesthetics - 1924 - 78 pages
..."Man would be a metaphysician before he has become a practical philosopher. He quits the contemplation of realities to meditate on chimeras. He neglects experience to feed on conjecture, to indulge in hypotheses. He dares not cultivate his reason, because from the earliest days he has been taught to... | |
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... notwithstanding the reiterated checks his ambitious folly experiences, he still attempts the impossible, strives to carry his researches beyond the visible world, and hunts out misery in imaginary regions. He would be a metaphysician before he has... 