The world thus 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 the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression... Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Página 28de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 372 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Manchester Literary Club - 1884 - 536 páginas
...end. No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is...and beauty are but different faces of the same All. Again, he says, in that fine strain of rhapsody which forms his essay on the Poet: "God has not made... | |
| 1884 - 354 páginas
...exist except in the concept." " Beauty," says Emerson in " Nature," " in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is...and beauty are but different faces of the same All." This is but another utterance of that central principle of Hegel's Logic — that the Absolute is all... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 328 páginas
...end. No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is...and goodness and beauty are but different faces of (lie same All. But beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and internal beauty,... | |
| Henry Allon - 1883 - 610 páginas
...pervades the universe.' Hence, as Emerson has justly observed, ' Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expres-sion for the universe. God is...nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and external Beauty, and is not alone a solid and satisfactory Good. It may stand as a part, and not as... | |
| Charles Francis Richardson - 1886 - 568 páginas
...a moral sentence. The moral law lies at the centre of nature and radiates to the circumference." " Truth and goodness and beauty are but different faces...ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty." " When we come to inquire Whence is matter ? and Whereto ? many truths arise to us out of the recesses... | |
| William Roscoe Thayer - 1886 - 34 páginas
...beauty in new forms from which Art springs. " No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Truth and goodness and beauty are but different faces of the same All." Higher than the beauty in Nature, however, is the inward beauty of the soul, which it heralds. Again,... | |
| Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - 572 páginas
...a moral sentence. The moral law lies at the centre of nature and radiates to the circumference." " Truth and goodness and beauty are but different faces...ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty." " When we come to inquire Whence is matter ? and Whereto ? many truths arise to us out of the recesses... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 páginas
...end. No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is...nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and internal beauty, and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must stand as a part, and not as... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 páginas
...end. No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is...nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and internal beauty, and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must stand as a part, and not as... | |
| 1903 - 696 páginas
...Wigglesworth's "Day of Doom," must these words have sounded : "Beauty in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is...and beauty are but different faces of the same All." Our author in discussing Emerson's ideals eloquently answers the narrow visionaries and crass materialists... | |
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