Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a po… - Manly P. Hall

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Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought.

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About Manly P. Hall

Manly Palmer Hall (18 March 1901 – 28 August 1990) was a Canadian-born American author and mystic. He is perhaps most famous for his work The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy (1928).

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