Infinite riches: gems from a lifetime of readingMcGraw-Hill, 1979 - 588 páginas Elizabeth I's last great speech, an account of Marco Polo's return to Venice, and writings by Mencken, Wilde, and Twain are among the selections included in a collection of excerpts that represents Rosten's lifelong love for the printed word |
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... PHILOSOPHER The man who is his own lawyer or physician, will be poorly served; but everyone can and must be his own philosopher. He must be, because philosophy deals with ends, not means. It includes the questions, What is good? What is ...
... PHILOSOPHER The man who is his own lawyer or physician, will be poorly served; but everyone can and must be his own philosopher. He must be, because philosophy deals with ends, not means. It includes the questions, What is good? What is ...
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... PHILOSOPHERS Nor shall we be philosophers, even should we have read all the arguments of Plato and Aristotle. So long as we are unable to arrive at a firm judgment of our ... philosopher should be a man willing to listen to 406 LEO ROSTEN.
... PHILOSOPHERS Nor shall we be philosophers, even should we have read all the arguments of Plato and Aristotle. So long as we are unable to arrive at a firm judgment of our ... philosopher should be a man willing to listen to 406 LEO ROSTEN.
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... philosopher, for a myth is a tissue of wonders. Thus if they took to philosophy to escape ignorance, it is patent ... philosopher's life is therefore spacious; he is not hemmed in and constricted like others. He alone is exempt from the ...
... philosopher, for a myth is a tissue of wonders. Thus if they took to philosophy to escape ignorance, it is patent ... philosopher's life is therefore spacious; he is not hemmed in and constricted like others. He alone is exempt from the ...
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A. J. P. TAYLOR ALBERT EINSTEIN American ARISTOTLE BAMBER GASCOIGNE beauty believe BENJAMIN BERTRAND RUSSELL Capitalism century Chinese Christian civilization Copyright court death democracy dream earth economic enemy England English Essays Europe everything excerpts existence experience eyes face fact faith feel freedom G. K. CHESTERTON GEORGE GEORGE MIKES H. L. MENCKEN hand happy head human ideas imagination JAMES Jews JOHN King knew LASSWELL Lenin LEONARD MOSLEY letter liberty Lincoln live look Lord MARK TWAIN means mind modern moral Napoleon nation nature never night palace passion peace person philosopher political reason religion revolution Roman sense sexual SIGMUND FREUD slave social society speech Stalin talk things THOMAS THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY thought tion truth turn Venice VOLTAIRE WINSTON CHURCHILL women words young
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Proverbs are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age Wolfgang Mieder Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |
Proverbs are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age Wolfgang Mieder Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |