Chapters on the Art of Thinking: And Other EssaysC. Kegan Paul, 1879 - 393 páginas |
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... perfect honesty and skill , lead to conclu- sions that are intolerable to the reason ; so that strife and doubt arise , and , above all , a suspicion that true knowledge is impossible . It has all the appearance of a failure and ...
... perfect honesty and skill , lead to conclu- sions that are intolerable to the reason ; so that strife and doubt arise , and , above all , a suspicion that true knowledge is impossible . It has all the appearance of a failure and ...
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... perfect art of thinking must embody and express them all , and be true to the whole of man's nature with all its faculties . The very law of progress is that no tendency is suppressed except for the sake of being perfected ; ever the ...
... perfect art of thinking must embody and express them all , and be true to the whole of man's nature with all its faculties . The very law of progress is that no tendency is suppressed except for the sake of being perfected ; ever the ...
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... perfect response to facts is absent , there the regard is to self ; the deed , whatsoever it be , is done for self ; and that only is " right " which can be rightly done for self . Now the things that can be rightly done for self are ...
... perfect response to facts is absent , there the regard is to self ; the deed , whatsoever it be , is done for self ; and that only is " right " which can be rightly done for self . Now the things that can be rightly done for self are ...
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... perfect ideal of rational conduct is seen to have been foredoomed to inevitable failure . " We consent to put " doing as if we loved " for loving . But it is not the same thing ; and it will not answer the same purpose . It will not do ...
... perfect ideal of rational conduct is seen to have been foredoomed to inevitable failure . " We consent to put " doing as if we loved " for loving . But it is not the same thing ; and it will not answer the same purpose . It will not do ...
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... perfect impulses mark the perfect man . For obeying impulses demands conditions . He may be the child of the wind who has been born of water . The simple function of eating seems to exhibit a complete moral process which has already so ...
... perfect impulses mark the perfect man . For obeying impulses demands conditions . He may be the child of the wind who has been born of water . The simple function of eating seems to exhibit a complete moral process which has already so ...
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