The Modern Temper: A Study and a Confession"A study of the various tendencies in contemporary thought and a confession of the mood which submission to these tendencies has engendered.". |
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... feel as his intelligence tells him that he should feel or think as his emotions would have him think , and thus he is reduced to mocking his torn and divided soul . In the grip of passion he cannot , as some romanticist might have done ...
... feel as his intelligence tells him that he should feel or think as his emotions would have him think , and thus he is reduced to mocking his torn and divided soul . In the grip of passion he cannot , as some romanticist might have done ...
Page 74
... feels any need . But it must be remembered that before such a crea- ture could come into being changes more fundamental ... feel any delight in it or make its possessor any con- cern of ours . It is to our humanity that 74 The Modern Temper.
... feels any need . But it must be remembered that before such a crea- ture could come into being changes more fundamental ... feel any delight in it or make its possessor any con- cern of ours . It is to our humanity that 74 The Modern Temper.
Page 168
... feel what we feel and we want what we want with a directness which permits of no possible skepticism . We may doubt the con- clusions of our logic , the premises of our philosophy , and even the evidence of our eyes , but we cannot ...
... feel what we feel and we want what we want with a directness which permits of no possible skepticism . We may doubt the con- clusions of our logic , the premises of our philosophy , and even the evidence of our eyes , but we cannot ...
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