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... to unfold such a philosophy, but rather to indicate what a philosophy based on
experience as the ultimate authority in knowledge and conduct means in the
present state of civilization, what its reactions are upon what is thought and done.
... to unfold such a philosophy, but rather to indicate what a philosophy based on
experience as the ultimate authority in knowledge and conduct means in the
present state of civilization, what its reactions are upon what is thought and done.
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Wherever the thought of fixity rules, that of all-inclusive unity rules also. The
popular philosophy of life is filled with desire to attain such an all-embracing unity
, and formal philosophies have been devoted to an intellectual fulfillment of the ...
Wherever the thought of fixity rules, that of all-inclusive unity rules also. The
popular philosophy of life is filled with desire to attain such an all-embracing unity
, and formal philosophies have been devoted to an intellectual fulfillment of the ...
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My feeling is just that sense of being thought — a part of a great process of
thought — which finds itself entangled, as some young creature may be
entangled in its egg membranes, in an overdeveloped, overintense, overlimited
egotism.
My feeling is just that sense of being thought — a part of a great process of
thought — which finds itself entangled, as some young creature may be
entangled in its egg membranes, in an overdeveloped, overintense, overlimited
egotism.
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