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... philosopher who attains it is , for the moment , a poet ; and a poet who turns his trained and practised imagination on the order of all things , or on anything in the light of the whole , is for the moment a philosopher . Such a ...
... philosopher who attains it is , for the moment , a poet ; and a poet who turns his trained and practised imagination on the order of all things , or on anything in the light of the whole , is for the moment a philosopher . Such a ...
Page 210
... philosopher cannot admit the poet's implicit claim to'know ' reality , or the reader's claim to attain through the poet's work a ' knowledge ' of reality . ' Knowledge ' is the privilege of the philosopher , and he very strongly resents ...
... philosopher cannot admit the poet's implicit claim to'know ' reality , or the reader's claim to attain through the poet's work a ' knowledge ' of reality . ' Knowledge ' is the privilege of the philosopher , and he very strongly resents ...
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... philosopher and not Gothe the poet who is thus creative to - day we should beg an important question by the separation . We can make the distinction satisfactorily only if we provisionally accept the emphasis laid by Goethe himself in ...
... philosopher and not Gothe the poet who is thus creative to - day we should beg an important question by the separation . We can make the distinction satisfactorily only if we provisionally accept the emphasis laid by Goethe himself in ...
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