Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 29
... wisdom these facts or questions of time , serve them . Facts encumber them , tyrannize over them , and make the men of rou- tine the men of sense , in whom a literal obedience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by which ...
... wisdom these facts or questions of time , serve them . Facts encumber them , tyrannize over them , and make the men of rou- tine the men of sense , in whom a literal obedience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by which ...
Page 36
... wisdom which divined the range of our affinities and looked at facts as symbols . I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so - called History is . How many times we must say Rome , and Paris , and Constantinople ! What does ...
... wisdom which divined the range of our affinities and looked at facts as symbols . I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so - called History is . How many times we must say Rome , and Paris , and Constantinople ! What does ...
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... wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your meta- physics you have denied personality to ...
... wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your meta- physics you have denied personality to ...
Page 56
... wisdom as Intuition , whilst all later teachings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind . which analysis cannot go , all things find their com- mon origin . For , the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know ...
... wisdom as Intuition , whilst all later teachings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind . which analysis cannot go , all things find their com- mon origin . For , the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know ...
Page 57
... centre of the present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , old things pass away , means , teachers , - texts , temples fall ; it lives now , SELF - RELIANCE . 57.
... centre of the present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , old things pass away , means , teachers , - texts , temples fall ; it lives now , SELF - RELIANCE . 57.
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