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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Page 342
... opinion , prudence , and their opposites ; of the differences between these I must speak elsewhere . Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination , in part judgement : we must therefore first mark off the ...
... opinion , prudence , and their opposites ; of the differences between these I must speak elsewhere . Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination , in part judgement : we must therefore first mark off the ...
Page 459
... opinion to me ; let us assume , as he argues , that this is true to you . Now , if so , you must either say that the rest of us are not the judges of this opin- ion or judgment of yours , or that we judge you always to have a true opinion ...
... opinion to me ; let us assume , as he argues , that this is true to you . Now , if so , you must either say that the rest of us are not the judges of this opin- ion or judgment of yours , or that we judge you always to have a true opinion ...
Page 907
... opinion . Apart from this , however , as I said just now , the element in which views and their expression become ... opinion , and only one person were of the contrary opinion , mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one ...
... opinion . Apart from this , however , as I said just now , the element in which views and their expression become ... opinion , and only one person were of the contrary opinion , mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one ...
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