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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... mind , by a power of her own , contemplates the universals in all things . Plato , Theaetetus , 184B 4 Quick wit is ... Mind must be relat- ed to what is thinkable , as sense is to what is sensi- ble . Therefore , since everything is a ...
... mind , by a power of her own , contemplates the universals in all things . Plato , Theaetetus , 184B 4 Quick wit is ... Mind must be relat- ed to what is thinkable , as sense is to what is sensi- ble . Therefore , since everything is a ...
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... mind has remained an empty word , and history a superficial play of casual , so - called " merely human , " strivings and passions . Even if , in connexion with history , they speak of Provi- dence and the plan of Providence , and so ...
... mind has remained an empty word , and history a superficial play of casual , so - called " merely human , " strivings and passions . Even if , in connexion with history , they speak of Provi- dence and the plan of Providence , and so ...
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... mind to perceive things through their first causes , and is the same in all men . Hence we can clearly understand how it is that the mind from the thought of one thing at once turns to the thought of another thing which is not in any ...
... mind to perceive things through their first causes , and is the same in all men . Hence we can clearly understand how it is that the mind from the thought of one thing at once turns to the thought of another thing which is not in any ...
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