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... instinct and when I know a thing never feel in myself the desire to impart it to others . I do not much care if people agree with me . Of course I think I am right , otherwise I should not think as I do , and they are wrong , but it ...
... instinct and when I know a thing never feel in myself the desire to impart it to others . I do not much care if people agree with me . Of course I think I am right , otherwise I should not think as I do , and they are wrong , but it ...
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... instinct : the term seems to give it a place among the mainsprings of the human being , like hunger and sex , and at the same time to endow it with a specific quality that flatters the philosophic craving for unity . So aesthetics have ...
... instinct : the term seems to give it a place among the mainsprings of the human being , like hunger and sex , and at the same time to endow it with a specific quality that flatters the philosophic craving for unity . So aesthetics have ...
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... instincts , but combined with human characteristics , which are the result of the evolu- tionary process , and with the common circumstances of life . That it has a great deal to do with the sexual instinct seems to be shown by the fact ...
... instincts , but combined with human characteristics , which are the result of the evolu- tionary process , and with the common circumstances of life . That it has a great deal to do with the sexual instinct seems to be shown by the fact ...
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