EssaysHenry Altemus, 1895 - 270 pages |
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... private opinion again , it will solve the problem of the age . The fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be cred- ible or intelligible . We as we read must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest , and king 8 ESSAY I.
... private opinion again , it will solve the problem of the age . The fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be cred- ible or intelligible . We as we read must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest , and king 8 ESSAY I.
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... becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian im- itated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian Court in its magnificent era never ...
... becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian im- itated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian Court in its magnificent era never ...
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... become the predominant habit of the mind . Our Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the natural . The Greeks are not reflective but perfect in their senses , perfect in their health , with the finest phys ...
... become the predominant habit of the mind . Our Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the natural . The Greeks are not reflective but perfect in their senses , perfect in their health , with the finest phys ...
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... becomes a thought to me , —when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a percep- tion , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do , as it were , run into one ...
... becomes a thought to me , —when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a percep- tion , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do , as it were , run into one ...
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... is a familiar fact explained to the child when he becomes a man , only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms , of whose influence he 28 ESSAY I.
... is a familiar fact explained to the child when he becomes a man , only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms , of whose influence he 28 ESSAY I.
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Page 43 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.
Page 54 - Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Page 48 - What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.
Page 48 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this: the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
Page 47 - Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.
Page 53 - But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place?
Page 16 - Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Page 75 - That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare?
Page 238 - Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Always our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine. As with events, so it is with thoughts.
Page 56 - It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day. We love it and pay it homage because it is not a trap for our love and homage, but is self-dependent, self-derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person. I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency.