...it elsewhere, "Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. "42 The problem is that "man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright;...not say 'I think,' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage."4. Yet contrary to this intellectual timidity, Emerson holds that There is one mmd common to...

...selfconsciousness, "Cogito ergo sum." Emerson's unacknowledged allusion to Descartes in the passage, "Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright;...'I think,' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage," ironically undermines itself, for in this very statement Emerson is paraphrasing another writer, a...

...They hide themselves behind customs and opinions." (SE p. 127) (4b) Man is timid and apologetic. ... He dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. ("Self-reliance," p. 270) SE and "Self-Reliance" share numerous such pairs of twins. This is not something...

...self-reliance lies in independent being, doing, or acting. After lamenting everyone's timidity and apology ("he dares not say 'I think,' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage"), Emerson says: These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they...

...into "Self- Reliance" is anything but veiled. At the center of the essay is a paragraph that begins: "Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright;...'I think,' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage." It is my impression that readers of Emerson have not been impressed by this allusion, or repetition,...

...authority, — what degradation in the word! What a gulf between that supple soul and its well-being! Man is timid and apologetic. He is no longer upright: he dares not say, / think; I am; but quotes some saint or sage. The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion,...

...and an injury if it be any thing more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming. Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say 'I think.' '1 am.' but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose....

...are meant as specimens of how reading that writing is to be accomplished. THE QUESTION OF PHILOSOPHY Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think,""! am," but quotes some saint or sage. Most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief,...

...look! What are you missing? Nobody is missing anything. I was reading one of Emerson's essays. He says, "Man is timid and apologetic. He is no longer upright. He dares not say 'I am'. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make...

...pitch?) line is: "Man dares not say . . . but quotes" (QO, 1 13), which is Cavell quoting Emerson's: "Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say '1 think,' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage" (E, 142). Cavell compacts things some; the ellipsis...