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For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.... And a man who is puzzled and wonder ...
To be claimed as good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.
Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its ...
We have no organ at all for knowledge, for "truth": we "know" (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the in ...
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