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The truth of truths might come in merely affirmative form , and she would decline to touch it . Such truth as that , she might repeat with Clifford , would be stolen in defiance of her duty to mankind .
The truth of truths might come in merely affirmative form , and she would decline to touch it . Such truth as that , she might repeat with Clifford , would be stolen in defiance of her duty to mankind .
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Of Truth W a a hat is Truth ? " said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer . Certainly there be that delight in giddiness , and count it a bondage to fix a belief , affecting free will in thinking , as well as in acting .
Of Truth W a a hat is Truth ? " said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer . Certainly there be that delight in giddiness , and count it a bondage to fix a belief , affecting free will in thinking , as well as in acting .
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а а belief of truth , which is the enjoying of it , is the sovereign good of human nature . The first creature of God , in the works of the days , was the light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever ...
а а belief of truth , which is the enjoying of it , is the sovereign good of human nature . The first creature of God , in the works of the days , was the light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever ...
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Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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action activity affection appear become beginning believe better body Books bring called carried cause character Church conception consider course death definite desire direct doubt evidence evil existence experience expression fact faith Faust fear feeling follow force friendship give given hand human idea imagination important individual intellectual intelligence interest keep kind knowledge least less light live logical look material matter meaning method mind moral nature never object observation old age once particular pass person philosopher play pleasure poet possible practical present principle problem qualities question reason reflection relation remains result seems sense soul speak stand suggested suppose things Thomas thought tion true truth turn understanding universe virtue whole wish
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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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