Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.]. |
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Side 9
... thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in appropriate events . But always the thought is prior to the fact ; all the facts of history pre - exist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and ...
... thought , every emotion , which belongs to it in appropriate events . But always the thought is prior to the fact ; all the facts of history pre - exist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and ...
Side 10
... thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion again , it will solve the problem of the age ...
... thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a private opinion , and when it shall be a private opinion again , it will solve the problem of the age ...
Side 15
... thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all like a creative soul , with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by ...
... thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all like a creative soul , with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by ...
Side 16
... thought , and far back in the womb of things , sees the rays parting from one orb , that di- verge ere they fall by infinite diameters . Genius watches the monad through all its masks as he per- forms the metempsychosis of nature ...
... thought , and far back in the womb of things , sees the rays parting from one orb , that di- verge ere they fall by infinite diameters . Genius watches the monad through all its masks as he per- forms the metempsychosis of nature ...
Side 17
... thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Beautifully shines a spirit through the bruteness and toughness of matter . Alone omnipotent , it converts all things to its own end . The adamant streams ...
... thought into troops of forms , as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Beautifully shines a spirit through the bruteness and toughness of matter . Alone omnipotent , it converts all things to its own end . The adamant streams ...
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action affection appear beauty becomes behold better black event Bonduca Cæsar character circle conversation divine doctrine Egypt Epaminondas eternal experience fact fear feel FREDERIKA BREMER friendship genius gifts give Greek hand heart heaven Heraclitus heroism highest hour human imagination instinct intellect labour less light live look lose man's marriage mind moral nature never noble object OVER-SOUL painted pass perception perfect persons Petrarch Phidias Phocion Pindar Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry proverb prudence Pyrrhonism racter relations religion Rome sculpture secret seek seems seen sense sentiment society Socrates Sophocles soul speak spect Spinoza spirit stand stoicism sweet talent teach thee things thou thought tion to-day to-morrow true truth universal Vathek virtue whilst whole wisdom wise words Xenophon youth
Populære passager
Side 45 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Side 38 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Side 40 - A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events.
Side 42 - What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child. I will live then from the Devil.
Side 48 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Side 67 - Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Side 195 - ... counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue ; when it flows through his affection, it is love.
Side 45 - What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
Side 138 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought.
Side 90 - Some damning circumstance always transpires. The laws and substances of nature water, snow, wind, gravitation - become penalties to the thief. On the other hand, the law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.