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Ernest Dimnet. The Art of Thinking
The Art of Thinking
Table of Contents
1. ON THINKING
2. HOW TO ESTIMATE THOUGHT
3. REAL THINKING
4. POSSIBILITY OF AN ART OF THINKING
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1. OBSESSIONS OR INFERIORITY COMPLEXES
a) Imitation and gregariousness
b) Education
2. THOUGHT WEAKENED BY LIFE
a) The Thinker’s Life
b) Non-thinking Lives
c) The Great Waste
1. LIVING ONE’S LIFE
a) Exterior Solitude
b) Interior Solitude
c) Making time
2. LIVING ONE’S LIFE ON A HIGHER PLANE
a) Thought-producing images
b) Moral elevation a condition of high thinking
c) Higher thoughts from books
d) How to read in order to think
e) Comprehending and Critical Reading
f) How to read the Newspaper
3. ELABORATION OF DATA IN THE MIND
a) Going over our knowledge
b) Reflection
c) Writing as a help to thought
d) Preserving one’s thoughts
e) Type of mind produced by this intellectual discipline
f) Further approximation to original thought
1. CREATION
2. THE ROOT OF CREATION. IDEAS
3. HOW WE CAN GET AT OUR OWN IDEAS
4. “BE YOURSELF”
5. “FIND YOURSELF”
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6. LITERARY PRODUCTION POSSIBLE TO ALL
CONCLUSION
INDEX
