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Page 24
... truth . There is still something of self - seeking in the refined disinterestedness which will not justify itself ... truth at any rate will be always there , and truth is their only muse , their only pretext , their only duty ...
... truth . There is still something of self - seeking in the refined disinterestedness which will not justify itself ... truth at any rate will be always there , and truth is their only muse , their only pretext , their only duty ...
Page 56
... truth may have been pene- trated and possessed in all these ways , and escape us still . Deeper even than consciousness there is our being itself , our very substance , our nature . Only those truths which have entered into this last ...
... truth may have been pene- trated and possessed in all these ways , and escape us still . Deeper even than consciousness there is our being itself , our very substance , our nature . Only those truths which have entered into this last ...
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... Truth above all , even when it upsets and overwhelms us ! But what I believe is that the highest idea we can conceive of the principle of things will be the truest , and that the truest truth is that which makes man the most wholly good ...
... Truth above all , even when it upsets and overwhelms us ! But what I believe is that the highest idea we can conceive of the principle of things will be the truest , and that the truest truth is that which makes man the most wholly good ...
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