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Challenge the statement , and science can only repeat it oracularly , or else prove it by showing that such ascertainment and correction bring man all sorts of other goods which man's heart in turn declares .
Challenge the statement , and science can only repeat it oracularly , or else prove it by showing that such ascertainment and correction bring man all sorts of other goods which man's heart in turn declares .
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Do not , therefore , bring with you to the diviner either desire or aversion - else you will approach him trembling — but first clearly understand that every event is indifferent and nothing to you , of whatever sort it may be ; for it ...
Do not , therefore , bring with you to the diviner either desire or aversion - else you will approach him trembling — but first clearly understand that every event is indifferent and nothing to you , of whatever sort it may be ; for it ...
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... you think good days are preparing for you . Do not believe it . Nothing can bring you peace but yourself . Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles . of Montaigne ; or , the Skeptic E very fact is SELF - RELIANCE 545.
... you think good days are preparing for you . Do not believe it . Nothing can bring you peace but yourself . Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles . of Montaigne ; or , the Skeptic E very fact is SELF - RELIANCE 545.
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
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WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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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 | 580 pages |
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