 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.  Select Essays and Poems - Side 20af Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 120 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Eustace Miles - 1902 - 216 sider
...hobgoblin of small minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency the great soul has simply nothing to do ; he may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 110 sider
...private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. tton consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow o,. the wall. SelfKeliance UOR everything you have missed you have gained something else; and for everything... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 294 sider
...shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. History J/i'linmnj tiim \S^ITH consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadowon the wall. n ,,- „ ,. Self Reliance Jfr hruaru. tljrr* pOR everything you have missed you... | |
 | Frater Da'Neos - 2003 - 162 sider
...be damned. At least I have Emerson to come to my defense, in his essay "Self -Reliance": A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,... | |
 | 156 sider
...judgments, even if it seems that we contradict ourselves. So what, Emerson seems to say: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do — Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speaks what to-morrow thinks in hard words... | |
 | Robert Fogelin - 2003 - 226 sider
...then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot. I will spue thee out of my mouth. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance" Do I contradict myself? Very well then ... I contradict myself;... | |
 | Mary Lutyens - 2003 - 266 sider
...all his clothes to someone in need. He once gave away his only overcoat. Emerson has said, 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.' If in nothing else, the inconsistencies in K's character would make him a great soul. From the time... | |
 | Ronda Chervin, Lois August Janis - 2003 - 164 sider
...Here are some lines from those who doubt that logic is the only way to steer toward truth: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. " Emerson (1803-1 882) "No generalization is wholly true, not even this one. Oliver Wendell Holmes,... | |
 | John Weeks - 2004 - 184 sider
...behavior will bring operations grinding to a halt, Emerson's words were never more true: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Ambiguity and inconsistency are the manager's hammer and sickle. There is an important ambiguity inherent... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 2003 - 302 sider
..."Whim." Anticipating objections, he deflates them with one of his best-known oneliners: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."40 And yet, how inconsistent is Emerson, really? Perhaps there are no inconsistencies if the... | |
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