...sadness lies at the heart of every merely positivistic, agnostic, or naturalistic scheme of philosophy. Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its...to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet. In the practical life of the individual, we know how his whole gloom or glee about any present...

...sadness lies at the heart of every merely positivistic. ag-nostic. or naturalistic scheme of philosophy. Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in tbe^moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really theretojpe tihe skull will...

...sadness lies at the heart of every merely positivistic, agnostic, or naturalistic scheme of philosophy. Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its...to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet. In the practical life of the individual, we know how his whole gloom or glee about any present...

...and turn us into melancholy physicians. The pride of life and glory of the world will shrivel. . . . Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its...really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin at the banquet." Insight out With deepening depression comes a shifting mixture of certain kinds of...

...is stable, permanent, enduring, and immortal. James put it that the fearful background of death is there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.198 Once the separate self emerges, the foggy atmosphere of death becomes its constant consort....

...etc. In the end, each atman substitute is bound to fail: 'the fearful background of death is still there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet'7. This "existentialist" experience is referred to as thanatos; as a counterforce to ems it...

...naturalistic look at life, however enthusiastically it may begin, is sure to end in sadness. . . . Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its...to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet (p. 121). The question for James is not in which world it is the easiest to live. Anyone who...

...our fear of dying. He tellingly cites a striking passage written by William James many years earlier: "Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with...to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet."18 Has it always been that way? Not necessarily. The contribution of Philippe Aries was to...

...by denying in some way that it is the final destiny for man."9 William Jones said it sardonically: "[let] sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with...to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet."10 After reviewing these and other statements, Becker was led to the conclusion that "a full...

...have been foretold by William James, not himself inclined to a highly morbid view of human nature: "Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with...forgetting, still the evil background is really there to bethought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet."3 In The Denial of Death (1973), Ernest Becker...