The Practical Cogitator or The Thinker's Anthology
by Charles P. Curtis Jr. (Editor), Ferris Greenslet (Editor)
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Selections (both short & longer) from all types of literature organized by themes such as "Man in Search of Himself", "What is Truth?", and "He Turns to Nature". A book for dipping into rather than reading per se.
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- 1945
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- O.W. Holmes, Jr. 1841-1935: Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
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- Preface to the First Edition (1945)
To begin with, this anthology is for the thinker, and not for the feeler, primarily for the extrovert thinker. Needless to say, it runs over into some of his introverted and intuitive ma... (show all)rgins.
The editors laid down certain rules:
Nothing that is probably already too familiar or too accessible.
Nothing purely inspirational, nothing sentimental. And yet nothing cynical. Nobility of thought keeps on the crown of the road, out of the gutters.
Nothing that is not worth re-reading. Some things that can be chewed over almost indefinitely. Pieces that are tough enough, juicy enough to chew. Some that are scarcely worth reading only once.
As between the ancient and the modern, the modern. When we have used the ancient, it is because we know of nothing better since.
The form in which the piece is written to make no odds. Treatise, textbook, letter, novel, speech, verse, anything is given equal welcome. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519: In rivers the water that you touch is the last of what ha passed and the first of that which comes: so with time present.
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- Jones, Howard Mumford; Sugrue, Thomas J.; de Voto, Bernard
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- Philosophy
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- 808.8 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Rhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures Literature Collections
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- PN6014 .C78 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature
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