Glimpses of Truth : With Essays on Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius

Excerpt from Glimpses of Truth With Essays on Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion. Emerson the study of proverbs may be more instructive and comprehensive than the most elaborate scheme of philosophy. Motherwell. Good maxims are germs of all good; firmly impressed on the memory they nourish the will joubert. Exclusively of the abstract sciences the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms; and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. - coleridge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.