Essays, Lectures and OrationsW. S. Orr & Company, 1848 - 364 sider |
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... abstract as the spirit of them all . Phidias it is not , but the work of man in that early Hellenic world , that I would know . The name and circumstance of Phidias , however convenient for history , embarrass when we come to the ...
... abstract as the spirit of them all . Phidias it is not , but the work of man in that early Hellenic world , that I would know . The name and circumstance of Phidias , however convenient for history , embarrass when we come to the ...
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... abstract truth . The consideration of time and place , of you and me , of profit and hurt , tyrannize over most men's minds . Intellect separates the fact considered from you , from all local and personal reference , and discerns it as ...
... abstract truth . The consideration of time and place , of you and me , of profit and hurt , tyrannize over most men's minds . Intellect separates the fact considered from you , from all local and personal reference , and discerns it as ...
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... abstract truth ; when we keep the mind's eye open , whilst we converse , whilst we read , whilst we act , intent to learn the secret law of some class of facts . What is the hardest task in the world ? To think . I would put myself in ...
... abstract truth ; when we keep the mind's eye open , whilst we converse , whilst we read , whilst we act , intent to learn the secret law of some class of facts . What is the hardest task in the world ? To think . I would put myself in ...
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... that , all his fame shall avail him nothing with me . I were a fool not to sacrifice a thousand Eschyluses to my in- tellectual integrity . Especially take the same ground in re- gard to abstract truth , the science of the mind 180 ESSAYS .
... that , all his fame shall avail him nothing with me . I were a fool not to sacrifice a thousand Eschyluses to my in- tellectual integrity . Especially take the same ground in re- gard to abstract truth , the science of the mind 180 ESSAYS .
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. gard to abstract truth , the science of the mind . The Bacon , the Spinoza , the Hume , Schelling , Kant , or whosoever pro- pounds to you a philosophy of the mind , is only a more or less awkward translator of ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. gard to abstract truth , the science of the mind . The Bacon , the Spinoza , the Hume , Schelling , Kant , or whosoever pro- pounds to you a philosophy of the mind , is only a more or less awkward translator of ...
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Side 186 - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Side 30 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
Side 194 - To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime.
Side ix - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.
Side 344 - Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be an unit, not to be reckoned one character — - not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south?
Side 344 - What is the remedy? They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
Side 230 - For us the winds do blow; The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow; Nothing we see but means our good, As our delight or as our treasure. The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure. The stars have us to bed; Night draws the curtain, which the sun withdraws; Music and light attend our head. All things unto our flesh are kind In their descent and being; to our mind In their ascent and cause.
Side 196 - Crossing a bare common in snow puddles at twilight under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
Side 344 - The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself. There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant.
Side 342 - What would we really know the meaning of ? The meal in the firkin ; the milk in the pan ; the ballad in the street ; the news of the boat ; the glance of the eye ; the form and the gait of the body...