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Page 253
And when I find an interpreter , what remains is to make use of his instructions . This alone is the valuable thing . But if I admire merely the interpretation , what do I become more than a grammarian , instead of a philosopher ...
And when I find an interpreter , what remains is to make use of his instructions . This alone is the valuable thing . But if I admire merely the interpretation , what do I become more than a grammarian , instead of a philosopher ...
Page 337
There remains the fourth reason , which more than anything else appears to torment men of my age and keep them in a flutter — THE NEARNESS OF DEATH , which , it must be allowed , cannot be far from an old man .
There remains the fourth reason , which more than anything else appears to torment men of my age and keep them in a flutter — THE NEARNESS OF DEATH , which , it must be allowed , cannot be far from an old man .
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Though the impression in favour of instinct as being a peculiar manifesta- tion of the divine purposes has not been cast into the form of a consistent general theory , it remains a standing ...
Though the impression in favour of instinct as being a peculiar manifesta- tion of the divine purposes has not been cast into the form of a consistent general theory , it remains a standing ...
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 644 pages |
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