MiscellaniesHoughton, Mifflin, 1876 - 425 páginas |
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... philosophy of insight , and not of tradition , and a religion by revelation to us , and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature , whose floods of life stream around and through us , and invite us by the powers they ...
... philosophy of insight , and not of tradition , and a religion by revelation to us , and not the history of theirs ? Embosomed for a season in nature , whose floods of life stream around and through us , and invite us by the powers they ...
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... Philosophy distin- guishes as the NOT ME , that is , both nature and art , all other men and my own body , must be ... philosophical import . In inquiries so general as our present one , the inaccu- racy is not material ; no confusion of ...
... Philosophy distin- guishes as the NOT ME , that is , both nature and art , all other men and my own body , must be ... philosophical import . In inquiries so general as our present one , the inaccu- racy is not material ; no confusion of ...
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... philosopher , " are necessarily kinds of scorie of the sub- stantial thoughts of the Creator , which must always pre- serve an exact relation to their first origin ; in other words , visible nature must have a spiritual and moral side ...
... philosopher , " are necessarily kinds of scorie of the sub- stantial thoughts of the Creator , which must always pre- serve an exact relation to their first origin ; in other words , visible nature must have a spiritual and moral side ...
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... philosophy is a hint from Nature herself . us . Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate -- Certain mechanical changes , a small alteration in our local position apprises us of a dualism . We are strangely affected by seeing ...
... philosophy is a hint from Nature herself . us . Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate -- Certain mechanical changes , a small alteration in our local position apprises us of a dualism . We are strangely affected by seeing ...
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... philosopher only herein , that the one proposes Beauty as his main end ; the other , Truth . But the philosopher , not less than the 50 IDEALISM .
... philosopher only herein , that the one proposes Beauty as his main end ; the other , Truth . But the philosopher , not less than the 50 IDEALISM .
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson Prévia não disponível - 2016 |
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Página 17 - Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball ; I am nothing ; I see all ; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God.
Página 77 - Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it 'their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
Página 35 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? for the universe becomes transparent, and the light of higher laws than its own shines through it.
Página 66 - Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven. Know then that the world exists for you.
Página 16 - The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.
Página 96 - 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.
Página 49 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn ; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn : But my kisses bring again, , bring again, ' . -' Seals of love, but seal'd in vain.
Página 34 - The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass. "The visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible.
Página 71 - ... when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
Página 31 - Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts, savages, who have only what is necessary, converse in figures. As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when it is all poetry; or all spiritual facts are represented by natural symbols.