Self-Control And How to Secure It = (L'éducation De Soi-Même
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Then only does it become a force-idea, following the correct description given by Fouillee — according to common speech, sentiment, and passion. This is what so many great minds have not seen, accustomed as we are to admit a fundamental difference between reason and feeling, to disregard the tie that binds them.
Hear what Pascal says, that mystical and neurasthenic genius who wrote so well, and who so often thought imperfectly : Man's conversion is prevented by his idleness, his pas- sions, his... pride — ^in a word, by his self-love. We cannot expect to conquer this sentiment with an idea; a passion only yields to a passion.
Truly, a passion only yields to a passion, a sentiment only yields to a sentiment; we could not put it better. But why did not Pas- cal see that all our passions, with the excep- tion of the purely animal ones (hunger, thirst, sexual desires, need of physical com- fort), are ideas become sentiments from be- ing forced upon our understanding? The passion that Pascal wished to oppose to human passions, to ever-recurring egotism, was religious passion; that is to say, an idea [115] SELF-CONTROL AND HOW TO SECURE IT that had become hot from having been ham- mered into his head.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Then only does it become a force-idea, following the correct description given by Fouillee — according to common speech, sentiment, and passion. This is what so many great minds have not seen, accustomed as we are to admit a fundamental difference between reason and feeling, to disregard the tie that binds them.
Hear what Pascal says, that mystical and neurasthenic genius who wrote so well, and who so often thought imperfectly : Man's conversion is prevented by his idleness, his pas- sions, his... pride — ^in a word, by his self-love. We cannot expect to conquer this sentiment with an idea; a passion only yields to a passion.
Truly, a passion only yields to a passion, a sentiment only yields to a sentiment; we could not put it better. But why did not Pas- cal see that all our passions, with the excep- tion of the purely animal ones (hunger, thirst, sexual desires, need of physical com- fort), are ideas become sentiments from be- ing forced upon our understanding? The passion that Pascal wished to oppose to human passions, to ever-recurring egotism, was religious passion; that is to say, an idea [115] SELF-CONTROL AND HOW TO SECURE IT that had become hot from having been ham- mered into his head.
What to read after Self-Control And How to Secure It = (L'éducation De Soi-Même?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Paul Dubois to read onlineMoreLess
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