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It was a good rule of Spinoza's to indicate the nature of things by words whose customary meanings should not be altogether opposed to the meanings he desired to bestow upon them . LXIV THERE IS no reason why philosophers should not be ...
It was a good rule of Spinoza's to indicate the nature of things by words whose customary meanings should not be altogether opposed to the meanings he desired to bestow upon them . LXIV THERE IS no reason why philosophers should not be ...
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In Tolstoi's book My Confession he asks himself whether there is any meaning in life that can overcome the inevitable death that awaits us all , and because man is subject to illness , because he grows old , because he dies , he arrives ...
In Tolstoi's book My Confession he asks himself whether there is any meaning in life that can overcome the inevitable death that awaits us all , and because man is subject to illness , because he grows old , because he dies , he arrives ...
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The meaning of life , he came to believe , was to do God's will in the assurance of immortality . That surely is to admit that life in itself has no meaning . But is there any sense in asking what is the meaning of life ?
The meaning of life , he came to believe , was to do God's will in the assurance of immortality . That surely is to admit that life in itself has no meaning . But is there any sense in asking what is the meaning of life ?
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 17 of Contemporary English series Volume 60 of Mentor books |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 279 pages |
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