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Page 78 of 781929 · PDF PAGE 52
… really disastrous feature was the attitude which I was compelled to assume about money. I was taught to expect every possible luxury. Nothing was too good for me; and I had no idea of what anything cost. It was all paid for behind my back. I was never taught that effort on my part might be required to obtain anything that I wanted; but one the other hand I was kept criminally short of pocket money lest I should spend it in some disgraceful way, such as buying books or tobacco, or spending it on even worse abominations such as theatres and wome…
1929 · PDF PAGE 349
…that he found people idiotic enough to make it invulnerable against the arrows of oblivion by dipping it into the Styx of persecution. Nothing could have been more helpful than the attitude of the Dean of Trinity, an idiot and inept. I have noticed that people who dislike me are invariable rendered so blind by malice that they give themselves away and make themselves ridiculous. There is an institution at Cambridge called "Ciccu", Cambridge Intercollegiate Christian Union. It is a bestial thing, compact of hypocrisy and secret vice. Now my conn…
1906 · PDF PAGE 214
208 THE SWORD OF SONG thing called consciousness exists.”’ He denies the assertion of duality; he has no datum to assert the denial of duality. I have. Consciousness, as we know it, has one essen- tial quality: the opposition of subject and object. Reason has attacked this and secured that complete and barren victory of convincing without producing conviction.* It has one quality apparently not essential, that of ex- ceeding impermanence. If we. examine what we call steady thought, we shall find that its rate of change is in reality inconceivab…
1904 · PDF PAGE 59
THE SWORD OF SONG 52 Dhyanic consciousness includes it and denies it. No doubt “something called” acts as a kind of caveat to the would-be sceptic, though the phrase is bad, implying a “calling. ” B ut we can guess what Huxley means. No doubt Buddha’s scepticism does not openly go quite so far as mine—it must be remembered that “scepticism” is merely the indication of a possible attitude, not a belief, as so many good fool folk thing; but Buddha not only denies “Cogito, ergo sum”; but “Cogito, ergo non sum.” See Sabbasava Sutta, par. 10.* At an…
1904 · PDF PAGE 73
THE SWORD OF SONG 66 thing called consciousness exists.” He denies the assertion of duality: he has no datum to assert the denial of duality. I have. Consciousness, as we know it, has one essential quality: the opposition of subject and object. Reason has attacked this and secured that complete and barren victory of convincing without producing conviction.* It has one quality apparently not essential, that of ex- ceeding impermanence. If we examine what we call steady thought, we shall find that its rate of change is in reality inconceivably sw…
1906 · PDF PAGE 193
…ze fool by shouting in disjointed phrases what everybody knew. Great news it is, of course, and on discovering Edmund, he can think of nothing more sensible than to ask for more! ‘* Kent banished thus! And France in choler parted! And the king gone to-night! sub- scrib'd his power! Confin’d to exhibition! All this done upon the gad! Edmund, how now! what news?” (Act I. Se. ii. ll. 23-26). Edmund ‘‘forces a card’ by the simple device of a prodigious hurry to hide it. Glou- cester gives vent to his astrological futilities, and falls to anxiomania…
1904 · PDF PAGE 52
…ze fool by shouting in disjointed phrases what everybody knew. Great news it is, of course, and on discovering Edmund, he can think of nothing more sensible than to ask for more ! “Kent banished thus ! And France in choler parted ! And the king gone to-night ! sub- scrib’d his power ! Confin’d to exhibition ! All this done upon the gad ! Edmund, how now ! what news ?” (Act I. Sc. ii. ll 23-26). Edmund “forces a card” by the simple device of a prodigious hurry to hide it. Glou- cester gives vent to his astrological futilities, and falls to axiom…