 | Charles William Eliot - Literature - 1910 - 468 pages
...extremes which meet. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great intellects,...a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself. Those between the two, who have departed from natural ignorance and not been able to reach the other,... | |
 | Blaise Pascal - Apologetics - 1910 - 462 pages
...extremes which meet. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great intellects,...a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself. Those between the two, who have departed from natural ignorance and not been able to reach the other,... | |
 | Blaise Pascal - 1910 - 468 pages
...extremes which meet. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great intellects,...a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself. Those between the two, who have departed from natural ignorance and not been able to reach the other,... | |
 | Peter Augustine Lawler - Philosophy - 1993 - 214 pages
...all, at birth. But it is also found at the culmination of the thought of "great intellects." They, "having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing." Hence they "come back to that same ignorance from which they set out" (fr. 327). The thought of the... | |
 | Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot - Philosophy - 2003 - 322 pages
...extremes which meet. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great intellects,...a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself. Those between the two, who have departed from natural ignorance and not been able to reach the other,... | |
 | Blaise Pascal - History - 2007 - 329 pages
...extremes which meet. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great intellects,...all that men can know, find they know nothing, and conie back again to that same ignorance from which they set out ; but this is a learned ignorance which... | |
 | Bill Vitek - Nature - 2008 - 370 pages
...extremes, which meet. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great intellects,...is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself (114-15). After two-plus millennia of philosophical exploring, we have come back again to the debates... | |
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The sciences have two extremes which meet. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great intellects, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing,... 