 I am what I am, or I am nothing. I cannot think, reflect, or judge about my being, without starting from the very point which I aim at concluding. My ideas are all assumptions, and I am ever moving in a circle. I cannot avoid being sufficient for myself,...  Newman - Page 124by William Francis Barry - 1904 - 225 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Henry Newman - 1870 - 514 pages
...random impulse of the moment, as spray upon the surface of the waves, and simply forgetting that I am. I am what I am, or I am nothing. I cannot think, reflect, or judge, without starting from the very point which I aim at concluding. My ideas are all assumptions, and I... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1870 - 500 pages
...and simply forgetting that I am. I am what I am, or I am nothing. I cannot think, reflect, or judge, without starting from the very point which I aim at concluding. My ideas arc all assumptions, and I am ever moving in a circle. I cannot avoid being sufficient for myself,... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - 1873 - 518 pages
...standpoint, and must be taken for granted ; otherwise thought is but an idle amusement, not worth the trouble I am what I am, or I am nothing. I cannot think, reflect, or judge, without starting from the very point which I aim at concluding. My ideas are all assumptions, and I... | |
 | 1908 - 766 pages
...must be taken for granted; otherwise, thought is but an idle amusement, not worth the trouble .... I am what I am, or I am nothing. I Cannot think, reflect,...anything else, and to change me is to destroy me. If I do not use myself, I have no other self to use. My only business is to ascertain what I am, in... | |
 | John Joseph Toohey - 1906 - 246 pages
...random impulse of the moment, as spray upon the surface of the waves, and simply forgetting that I am; I cannot think, reflect, or judge about my being,...all assumptions, and I am ever moving in a circle; my only business is to ascertain what I am, in order to put it to use (vide FUNCTION); what I have... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - 1906 - 360 pages
...better let speculation alone. Such as I am, it is my all. ... I am what I am, or I am nothing. ... I cannot avoid being sufficient for myself, for I...anything else, and to change me is to destroy me. If I do not use myself, I have no other self to use. My only business is to ascertain what I am, in... | |
 | 1912 - 540 pages
...random impulse of the moment, as spray upon the surface of the waves, and simply forgetting that I am. I am what I am, or I am nothing. I cannot think, reflect,...circle. I cannot avoid being sufficient for myself ... I have no other self to use. My only business is to ascertain what I am, in order to put it to... | |
 | Ramon Fernandez - 1926 - 234 pages
...THUMEN. Now Faith is thé substance of things hoped for, thé évidence of things not seen. Heb. xi. i. I cannot avoid being sufficient for myself, for I...anything else, and to change me is to destroy me. If I do not use myself, I hâve no other self to use. My only business is to ascertain what I am in... | |
 | Thomas J. Norris - 1977 - 240 pages
...discovering these veritable and "absolute monarchs" of our being is through a healthy self-acceptance. "I cannot think, reflect, or judge about my being,...starting from the very point which I aim at concluding." 3t Thirdly, this demands at the same time that we set out from our necessary starting point of self-communion... | |
 | Walter Jost, Wendy Olmsted - 2000 - 436 pages
...of criteria, in other words, involves the well-known hermeneutical circle noted by Newman (GA, 224: "My ideas are all assumptions, and I am ever moving in a circle") and Novak: "The outcome of any philosophical inquiry is determined by its starting place [rhetorical... | |
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