Lipps and others who follow him seek to show that this vitalizing activity of the fancy, which produces a new and illusory object, is the essential ingredient in the aesthetic enjoyment of the forms of material objects.
Thus they resemble the Void, a kind of energy that manifests itself through diverse illusory objects of the senses, but which is itself ungraspable, changeless unity.
The illusory world we think we see around us, deceptively brought to us by our untrustworthy senses, leads us to conceptual thought and to logical categories as a means to attempt its "understanding.
He also, we are told, sharpened his non-Buddhist amorous skills, perhaps finding consolation in theillusory world of the senses for the hollow emptiness of sunyata.
The most common form of suchillusory appearance is, of course, the dream, and I believe that children dwell much on the mystery of dreaming.
There is an illusory and unattainable independence which is a mere dream, but there is also a reasonable and attainable independence not really inconsistent with our obligations to humanity and our country.
And in each case the increase of liberty is real; it is not that illusory kind of extension which loses in one direction the freedom that it wins in another.
That this latter idea was not illusory is proved by his happy life afterwards with Mary so far as a life could be happy that was poisoned by a tragic recollection.
It involves, again, a clear perception of the kind of questions which can be profitably asked, and the limits within which an answer, not of the illusory kind, can really be expected.
If the really impressive books and other art-works of the world were produced by ordinary men, they would express more fear of women's pursuit than love of their illusory beauty.
But I am not now defending theillusory forms the great ideas take.
And to destroy and prove it illusory must consist in showing that here too form is content, and that pure intuition is itself lyricism.
This precluded intimate coordination of domestic and overseas propaganda and rendered illusory any hope that domestic propaganda, as eavesdropped by our enemies, could be used as an instrument of war.
But as an Advaiti, I look upon Jivatma as identical with Paramatma in its real essence when stripped of its illusory attributes created by Agnanam or Avidya--ignorance.
To escape from this chain of illusory ideas, and their consequences, the obvious necessity is to claim the soul's right to Being.
Being is, therefore, to cease to ex-ist, is to cease to live under the spell of the illusory and changing quality of maya, or externality.
Let not the opinions of the illusory world of the senses balk and thwart you.
The shadings are more likely to be the result of the canals than the cause of the formation of illusory lines in so many cases.
It has been stated that Professor Lowell had admitted the illusory nature of the canal lines.
To argue that because illusory lines can be formed as in these experiments proves that the Martian lines are also illusions is claiming far too much.
He had brought with him from Ireland his translations from Anacreon; and published these by subscription in 1800, dedicated to the Prince Regent (then the illusory hope of political reformers), with no inconsiderable success.
The middle bird had the shining crimson eyes; but in a few moments the illusory colour was gone and the eyes were black.
The instinctive fear of the half knower has left them; they live in an illusory safety, the danger has become familiar to them, and they deceive themselves with the idea that the particular case is harmless.
The non-socialistic community has the power to take care of that, and it is entirely an illusory belief that socialism has in that respect any advantage.
Also it was quite possible that, for the moment, she believed what she said, and that this illusory sincerity had furnished her with that deep tenderness of accent, those despairing attitudes, those tears.
As he crossed the threshold of the palace, all this illusory ferment died away on the instant, for Lord Heathfield came forward to greet him with his habitual and somewhat ambiguous smile.
Only to risk when possessing perfect knowledge of a subject is the sure means of never being drawn into a transaction byillusory hopes.
The impulse reigns supreme there when sentimentality establishes itself, and the desire of judgment, if it makes itself apparent, is quickly shunned, to the profit of illusory reasons, in which pure reason does not intervene.
And as one dreaming person is not affected by the illusory visions of his dream because they do not accompany the waking state and the state of dreamless sleep; so the one permanent witness of the three states (viz.
He did not waste his strength on illusory schemes of benevolence, like Las Casas, on the one hand; nor did he countenance the selfish policy of the colonists, on the other.
The illusory study of astrology, so captivating to the unenlightened mind, engaged no share of his attention.
But Job rejects both pleas as illusory and immoral, besides which, they leave the frequent prosperity of the unrighteous unexplained.
Schopenhauer puts it tersely thus: "As we are decoyed into life by the utterly illusory impulse to voluptuousness, even so are we held fast therein by the fear of death, which is certainly illusory in an equal degree.
Illusory as was this sense of well-being, it sufficed in many cases to relieve women of discomfort that had become so serious, to their minds at least, that they feared an operation would be necessary.
Men may dream in demonstrations, and cut out an illusory world in the shape of axioms, definitions and propositions, with a final exclusion of fact signed Q.
Suppose he had introduced himself as one of the strictest reasoners: do they form a body of men hitherto free from false conclusions and illusory speculations?
But I am careful not to let my manners go farther than the encouragement of commonplace ogling, equivocal smiles, and illusory promises.
Mr. Gladstone flew down upon the plan with energy, as a measure of illusory concessions, and securities still more illusory.
