| 1851 - 588 páginas
...contradictions as we can, but their discord and their concord, introduce WILD ABSURDITIES into our thinking and speech. No sentence will hold the whole truth, and...which we can be just, is BY GIVING OURSELVES THE LIE. • An Address, &c. t Ibid. Speech is better than silence ; silence is better than speech ; — all... | |
| 1902 - 902 páginas
...character rather than of temperament. "No sentence will hold the whole truth, " this prophet exclaims, "and the only way in which we can be just is by giving ourselves the lie." And again, " I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods, " — a sentence one might... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 páginas
...contradictions as we can, but their discord and their concord introduce wild absurdities into our thinking and speech. No sentence will hold the whole truth, and...Speech is better than silence ; silence is better th;in speech ; — All things are in contact ; every atom has a sphere of repulsion ; — Things are,... | |
| 1875 - 402 páginas
...thoughts to-day. So far is he from being the light of the world, that he says, ' No sentence can contain the whole truth, and the only way in which we can be just is by giving ourselves the lie.' How distant are we here from Him whose life and death were one long and glorious testimony to the truth... | |
| 1875 - 718 páginas
...thoughts to day. So far is he from being the light of the world, that he says, " No sentence can contain the whole truth, and the only way in which we can be just is by giving ourselves the lie." How distant are we here from Him whose life and death were one long and glorious testimony to the truth... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 páginas
...contradictions as we can, but their discord and their concord introduce wild absurdities into our thinking and speech. No sentence will hold the whole truth, and...Things are, and are not, at the same time; — and tlie like. All the universe over, there is but one thing, this old Two-Face, creator-creature, mind-matter,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 238 páginas
...contradictions as we can, but their discord and their concord introduce wild absurdities into our thinking and speech. No sentence will hold the whole truth, and...Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech;—All things are in contact; every atom has a sphere of repulsion; — Tiiings are, and are... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 380 páginas
...which we can be just, is by giving ourf selves the lie ; Speech is better than silence ; si) lence is better than speech ; — All things are in contact...; ( — Things are, and are not, at the same time ;J v— and the like. All the universe over, there is /but one thing, this old Two-Face, creator-creal... | |
| 1884 - 668 páginas
...thoughts to-day. So far is he from being the light of the world, that he says, "No sentence can contain the whole truth, and the only way in which we can be just is by giving ourselves the lie." How distant are we here from Him whose life and death were one long and glorious testimony to the truth... | |
| 1898 - 682 páginas
...CAN THE HIGH SCHOOL BE BROUGHT INTO CLOSER TOUCH WITH THE PEOPLE? 8UPT. FRANK H. HALL. INSTITUTION "No sentence will hold the whole truth and the only...In which we can be just Is by giving ourselves the He." — Emergen. Some one has defined "common sense" as "the intuitive perception of the fitness of... | |
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