 It is not words only that are emblematic; it is things which are emblematic. Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting...  Orations, Lectures and Essays - Página 27de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 290 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Michael Awkward - 2007 - 284 páginas
...in Emerson's formulation, "every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...presenting that natural appearance as its picture" (200). Romantic heartbreak shakes Green's persona of a belief in such correspondence; if, in its title,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2007 - 525 páginas
...in part Emerson's Nature: "Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...presenting that natural appearance as its picture." 101 Unidentified. 102 Emerson wrote in his Divinity School Address: "It is already beginning to indicate... | |
 | Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 páginas
...between the inner and outer worlds, the me and the not me. As he goes on to observe: "Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...presenting that natural appearance as its picture." 123 This is a concept that Neumann also expresses when he observes that, "The psychic world of images... | |
 | Mark Sagoff - 2007
...believed that "all spiritual facts are represented by natural symbols." Emerson wrote, "Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...presenting that natural appearance as its picture." This naive correspondence theory of truth is worse than solipsistic because the individual disappears... | |
 | Elizabeth R. Epperly - 2007 - 241 páginas
...figured in language, showing how intimately word images correspond to natural images: 'Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...described by presenting that natural appearance as a picture' (15). Nature exists to inspire and to liberate, to bring rest and to urge mortals beyond... | |
 | Christian Schäfer - 2007 - 42 páginas
...even suggests that natural facts are the only appropriate means to express thoughts: "Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...the mind can only be described by presenting that appearance as its picture" (18). Our main instrument to understanding is analogy because "man is an... | |
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