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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... true of your own instinct when teachers question you ? Is it not that the quick spark of truth lies buried in the heart's low depths ? And if the Muse of Plato sends through those depths the voice of truth , each man has not forgotten ...
... true of your own instinct when teachers question you ? Is it not that the quick spark of truth lies buried in the heart's low depths ? And if the Muse of Plato sends through those depths the voice of truth , each man has not forgotten ...
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... true . Milton , Areopagitica 74 He who has a true idea knows at the same time that he has a true idea , nor can he doubt the truth of the thing . . . . For no one who has a true idea is ignorant that a true idea involves the highest ...
... true . Milton , Areopagitica 74 He who has a true idea knows at the same time that he has a true idea , nor can he doubt the truth of the thing . . . . For no one who has a true idea is ignorant that a true idea involves the highest ...
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... true , and declare your opinion to me ; let us assume , as he argues , that this is true to you . Now , if so , you must either say that the rest of us are not the judges of this opin- ion or judgment of yours , or that we judge you ...
... true , and declare your opinion to me ; let us assume , as he argues , that this is true to you . Now , if so , you must either say that the rest of us are not the judges of this opin- ion or judgment of yours , or that we judge you ...
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