..."Nothing in the world is single; all things by a law divine in one spirit meet and mingle." — Shelley "Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all." — Emerson "Wisdom and virtue are like two wheels of a cart." — Japanese proverb "Let there be spaces...

...truth in nature, and may itself be creatively appropriated to moral reasoning and aesthetic insight: "Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All." For :48 Emerson, correspondence underwrites the possibility of science. Take nature into the mind as...

...first book, Nature, "The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire for beauty. This element I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or...beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is our expression for the universe." The essential act of Emerson's ethical poet was the harmonious resonance...

...exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. Extend this element to the uttermost, and I call it an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why...sense, is one expression for the universe. God is all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.18* Das Weltganze...

...analogous impression on the mind. What is common to them all, — that perfectness and harmony, is beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense,...and beauty, are but different faces of the same All. Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some...

...heyday of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the apostle of the nobility of the individual will, who preached that "Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All," and that men could seek them "without effeminacy." These ideals were to be pursued in the new society...

...329), it follows that the principles of art are to be deduced from the nature of beauty. It is because "Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe" (I, 30) that "Art should . . . throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the...