 | 1907 - 512 páginas
...the sunshine, and taking into its life the forces of today. In his essay on Intellect, Emerson says: "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets—most... | |
 | Hugh De Sélincourt - 1917 - 350 páginas
...ran: " Emerson would have been a great man if he had written nothing else than the one sentence: ' God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both.'" I smiled merely at his habitual exaggeration, and with my collect in my mind wondered what Emerson... | |
 | 1946 - 544 páginas
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 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1921 - 380 páginas
...shutting out every consideration that could shake or qualify cherished beliefs. 'God,' says Emerson, ' offers to every mind its choice between truth and...repose. Take which you please. You can never have both.' One of the strongest arguments of natural religion rests upon the fact that virtue so often fails to... | |
 | William Stephen Rainsford - 1922 - 518 páginas
...for them. They were healthy and inevitable. In his essay on Intellect, Emerson says: God offers'to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you cannot have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom love of repose predominates,... | |
 | 1931 - 358 páginas
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 | 1939 - 540 páginas
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 | William McDougall - 1927 - 422 páginas
...a religion, its first precept is that we shall seek truth faithfully; and I would say with Emerson: "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose. Take which you please. You can never have both." W. McD. Sarawak, April, 1927. Contents CHAPTER PACE I.—OUR NEED OF SELF-CRITICISM ... 3 II.—HUMAN... | |
 | William McDougall - 1927 - 422 páginas
...a religion, its first precept is that we shall seek truth faithfully; and I would say with Emerson: "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose. Take which you please. You can never have both." W. McD. Sarawak, April, 1927. Contents CHAPTER PACE I.—OUR NEED OF SELF-CRITICISM ... 3 II.—HUMAN... | |
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truth, and forego all things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both. Between these, as... 
