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Otis Hamilton Lee Quotes

1902–1948 United States

Otis Hamilton Lee (28 September 1902 – 17 September 1948) was an American philosopher, Rhodes scholar, and Guggenheim fellow.

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Philosophy is the attempt to formulate principles or categories which the philosopher already possesses, in common with everyone else, but in an unformulated state.

The observer who follows, from a distance, events in contemporary Germany experiences above all a feeling of disbelief.

The idea of an object is the idea of its effects, of what it will do, and of what will happen to it, under various conditions.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Otis Hamilton Lee (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.