“Learn just enough of the subject [metaphysics] to enable your mind to get rid of it.”
Quoted by Geoffrey Madan (1895-1947)
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Actually from one of John Dewey's lectures, reprinted in his Reconstruction in Philosophy (2004), p. 96.
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“We have sought truth, and sometimes perhaps found it. But have we had any fun?”
Quoted by Geoffrey Madan (1895-1947)
“[The office of the interpreter] is to read Scripture like any other book.”
On the interpretation of Scripture http://www.bible-researcher.com/jowett1.html
“Doubt comes in at the window, when Inquiry is denied at the door.”
On the interpretation of Scripture http://www.bible-researcher.com/jowett1.html
In conversation with Logan Pearsall Smith. Reported in Smith's Unforgotten Years (1938) p. 169.
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