Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 - 644 pages Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works. |
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Page 233
... live a life of prudence , honour , and justice without living pleasantly . For the virtues are by nature bound up ... live like a god among men . For a man who lives among immortal blessings is not like to a mor- tal being . Epictetus ...
... live a life of prudence , honour , and justice without living pleasantly . For the virtues are by nature bound up ... live like a god among men . For a man who lives among immortal blessings is not like to a mor- tal being . Epictetus ...
Page 529
... live . My life is for itself and not for a spectacle . I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain , so it be ... live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the ...
... live . My life is for itself and not for a spectacle . I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain , so it be ... live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the ...
Page 535
... live in the present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that surround him , stands on tiptoe to foresee the future . He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present , above ...
... live in the present , but with reverted eye laments the past , or , heedless of the riches that surround him , stands on tiptoe to foresee the future . He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present , above ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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