The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1This book represents Maugham's life and philosophy in his own words. It is autobiographical in nature, though most of the work is concerned with Maugham's unique and fascinating opinions on the theatre, writing, metaphysics and the interesting people he encountered in his long and successful career. |
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... Kuno Fischer whose lectures I attended when I was at Heidelberg . He had a great reputation there and he was giving that winter a course of lectures on Schopenhauer . They were crowded and one had to queue up early in order to get a ...
... Kuno Fischer whose lectures I attended when I was at Heidelberg . He had a great reputation there and he was giving that winter a course of lectures on Schopenhauer . They were crowded and one had to queue up early in order to get a ...
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... Kuno Fischer treated it as a work of art rather than as a serious contribution to metaphysics . Since then I have read a great deal of philosophy . I have found it very good reading . Indeed , of the various great subjects that afford ...
... Kuno Fischer treated it as a work of art rather than as a serious contribution to metaphysics . Since then I have read a great deal of philosophy . I have found it very good reading . Indeed , of the various great subjects that afford ...
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... Kuno Fischer's lectures , I began to read Schopenhauer I have read pretty well all the most important works of the great classical philoso- phers . Though there is in them a great deal that I did not understand , and perhaps I did not ...
... Kuno Fischer's lectures , I began to read Schopenhauer I have read pretty well all the most important works of the great classical philoso- phers . Though there is in them a great deal that I did not understand , and perhaps I did not ...
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