Great Treasury of Western Thought: A Compendium of Important Statements on Man and His Institutions by the Great Thinkers in Western HistoryMortimer Jerome Adler, Charles Lincoln Van Doren Passages from the West's great written works, ranging from the Odyssey and the Old Testament to the Interpretation of Dreams and Ulysses, comment on love, knowledge, ethics, war, art, and other abiding topics. |
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... matter is unstable and obscure , so that for this reason philosophers could never hope to agree on them ; and ... matter , not only from individual , but also from common matter , though not from common intelligible matter , but only ...
... matter is unstable and obscure , so that for this reason philosophers could never hope to agree on them ; and ... matter , not only from individual , but also from common matter , though not from common intelligible matter , but only ...
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... matter , would fain do all at once . It would succeed , no doubt , if its power were un- limited , or if some reinforcement could come to it from without . But the impetus is finite , and it has been given once for all . It cannot ...
... matter , would fain do all at once . It would succeed , no doubt , if its power were un- limited , or if some reinforcement could come to it from without . But the impetus is finite , and it has been given once for all . It cannot ...
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... matter , spirit is like a child asking questions and making pause , and often brutally run over and crushed by a rush of changes which it cannot un- derstand . Santayana , Realm of Matter , V 74 If it is true that we cannot bathe twice ...
... matter , spirit is like a child asking questions and making pause , and often brutally run over and crushed by a rush of changes which it cannot un- derstand . Santayana , Realm of Matter , V 74 If it is true that we cannot bathe twice ...
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