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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... understanding alone . It is only through the understanding that it can be employed in the field of experience . It does not form conceptions of objects , it merely arranges them and gives to them that unity which they are capable of ...
... understanding alone . It is only through the understanding that it can be employed in the field of experience . It does not form conceptions of objects , it merely arranges them and gives to them that unity which they are capable of ...
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... Understanding , Epistle to the Reader 66 Though the comprehension of our understandings comes exceeding short of the vast extent of things , yet we shall have cause enough to magnify the bountiful Author of our being , for that ...
... Understanding , Epistle to the Reader 66 Though the comprehension of our understandings comes exceeding short of the vast extent of things , yet we shall have cause enough to magnify the bountiful Author of our being , for that ...
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... Understanding , also , and goodness of under- standing , in virtue of which men are said to be men of understanding or of good understanding , are neither entirely the same as opinion or scien- tific knowledge ( for at that rate all men ...
... Understanding , also , and goodness of under- standing , in virtue of which men are said to be men of understanding or of good understanding , are neither entirely the same as opinion or scien- tific knowledge ( for at that rate all men ...
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