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 240
... wish your children and your wife and your friends to live forever , you are foolish , for you wish things to be in your power which are not so , and what belongs to others to be your own . So likewise , if you wish your servant to be ...
... wish your children and your wife and your friends to live forever , you are foolish , for you wish things to be in your power which are not so , and what belongs to others to be your own . So likewise , if you wish your servant to be ...
Page 327
... wish it back - unless we are to think that young men should wish their childhood back , and those somewhat older their youth ! The course of life is fixed , and nature admits of its being run but in one way , and only once ; and to each ...
... wish it back - unless we are to think that young men should wish their childhood back , and those somewhat older their youth ! The course of life is fixed , and nature admits of its being run but in one way , and only once ; and to each ...
Page 456
... wish to be scoffed at throughout the centuries as the most impertinent of men , and to suffer public hatred as the most unjust . You have been spoken to a hundred times of the insolent absurdity with which you condemned Galileo , and I ...
... wish to be scoffed at throughout the centuries as the most impertinent of men , and to suffer public hatred as the most unjust . You have been spoken to a hundred times of the insolent absurdity with which you condemned Galileo , and I ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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