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 238
... never impute it to others , but to ourselves — that is , to our own views . It is the action of an uninstructed ... never look behind . But if you are old , never go far from the ship , lest you should be missing when called for . VIII ...
... never impute it to others , but to ourselves — that is , to our own views . It is the action of an uninstructed ... never look behind . But if you are old , never go far from the ship , lest you should be missing when called for . VIII ...
Page 542
... never imitate . Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half posses- sion . That which each can do best ...
... never imitate . Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half posses- sion . That which each can do best ...
Page 554
... never a man with such abundance of thoughts ; he is never dull , never insincere , and has the genius to make the reader care for all that he cares for . The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences . I know not anywhere ...
... never a man with such abundance of thoughts ; he is never dull , never insincere , and has the genius to make the reader care for all that he cares for . The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences . I know not anywhere ...
Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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