 ... influx. Exactly parallel is the whole rule of intellectual duty to the rule of moral duty. A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forego all things for that, and choose defeat and pain,...  Complete Works - Seite 318von Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1901 - 744 Seiten
...convulsive, averse to all stagnation. As one of the greatest of nineteenth- century philosophers has said, " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which yon please — you can never have both." This, then, was the age when men were choosing Truth rather... | |
 | 1852 - 576 Seiten
...reed, but bidding him stand firm Though she crush worlds. God offers to every mind, it has been said, its choice between truth and repose. "Take which you...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 Seiten
...Politics, Art, in the hope that in the course of a few years we shall have condensed into our encyclopedia the net value of all the theories at which the world...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
 | 1912 - 880 Seiten
...occupations. The keynote of this volume Is a quotation taken from Emerson's Essay on Intellect which begins, "God offers to every mind Its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both." Jacob is a "candidate for truth," according to Emerson, In that he submits to the "Inconvenience of... | |
 | 1848 - 614 Seiten
...freedom and. the truthfulness of his thought. His essays are jeplete with passages such as this : — " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you ean never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 Seiten
...parabola, whose arcs will never meet. so far in one direction, that I am out of the hoop of your horizon. Neither by detachment, neither by aggregation, is...its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 Seiten
...few men to be poets, yet every man is a receiver of this descending Holy Ghost, and may well stud y the laws of its influx. Exactly parallel is the whole...its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please,—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the... | |
 | 1848 - 636 Seiten
...freedom and the truthfulness of his thought. His essays are replete with passages such as this : — " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 Seiten
...freedom and the truthfulness of his thought. His essays are replete with passages such as ! this : — " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you ean never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 Seiten
...the best accumulation or disposition of details, yet does the world reappear in miniature in evety event, so that all the laws of nature -may be read...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in Whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
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