What a sublime idea of the infinite might of the great Architect, the Cause of all causes, the Father of all fathers, the Ens Entium! For if we would compare the Infinite, it would surely require a greater Infinite to cause the causes of effects than to produce the effects themselves.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the nature of the Infinite and the idea of a supreme creator being responsible for all that exists.
August Weismann's quote delves into a philosophical exploration of the concept of the Infinite and posits that if one considers everything that exists as a result of an initial cause, such an initial cause must be itself an Infinite being. This perspective suggests a complex relationship between creation and the creator, indicating that understanding the entirety of existence requires an acknowledgment of something even greater than what is produced—the creator itself.
In practice
In a discussion about the origins of the universe during a philosophy class.
We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living nature proclaims with one accord from all sides the evolution of the world of organisms, we cannot assume that the process stopped short of Man. But it follows also that the factors which brought about the development of Man from his Simian ancestry must be the same as those which have brought about the whole of evolution.
'-mediocre, arrogant as his father, a determined rule-breaker, delighted to find himself famous, attention-seeking and impertinent -' said Severus. 'You see what you expect to see, Severus.' said Dumbledore.
RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.
I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.
Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
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