But the thinker, the man who devotes himself to scientific inquiry and philosophic speculation, works, so to speak, in reason, not simply by *. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
The mind wanders from the nominal subject and devotes itself to what is intrinsically more desirable. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
He devotes them to new uses, and in so far transforms them. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
Or the occupation to which he devotes himself may be of an opposite kind, and he may have the other sort of lameness. 柏拉图.理想国.
I know of one reformer who devotes a good deal of his time to intimate talks with powerful conservatives. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.