A Defence of Poetry - Part XI (Finale)
A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the...
Tao Te Ching - Part V
Chapter 38 High virtue is not virtuous Therefore it has virtue Low virtue never loses virtue Therefore it has no virtue High virtue...
Tao Te Ching - Part IV
Chapter 28 Know the masculine, hold to the feminine Be the watercourse of the world Being the watercourse of the world The eternal...
Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part IX
Letter XIII ON a first survey, nothing appears more opposed than these two impulsions; one having for its object change, the other...
Oration on the Dignity of Man - Part IX (Finale)
I come now to those matters which I have drawn from the ancient mysteries of the Hebrews and here adduce in confirmation of the...
Tao Te Ching - Part I
Chapter 1 The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal name The nameless is the...
Oration on the Dignity of Man - Part VIII
For these reasons, I have not been content to repeat well-worn doctrines, but have proposed for disputation many points of the early...
A Defence of Poetry - Part VIII
The poetry of Dante may be considered as the bridge thrown over the stream of time, which unites the modern and ancient world. The...
Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part VIII
Letter XII THIS twofold labour or task, which consists in making the necessary pass into reality in usand in making out of us reality...
Oration on the Dignity of Man - Part VII
In our own day, many scholars, imitating Gorgias of Leontini, have been accustomed to dispute, not nine hundred questions merely, but the...