 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.  Essays - Page 54by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 270 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit...law of his being, as the inequalities of Andes and Himinaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere. Nor does it matter how yon gauge and try him.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. 15. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law... | |
 | 1841 - 640 pages
...misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit...no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of bis will are rounded in by the law of his being, as the inequalities of Andes and 1 1 immaleh are insignificant... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1842 - 782 pages
...and wilfulness have not thwarted, have not aided to an appreciable degree.' — Essay xi., p. 330. ' I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies...Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere.' — Essay ii., p. 58. Nothing can be more satisfactory to mankind, especially to the guilty portion... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...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 t<y be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit...the curve of the sphere. Nor does it matter how you guage and try him. A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza ; — read it forward, backward,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...misunderstood t Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit...flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I suppose no-man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being as... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 pages
...misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. CHRIST AND CHRISTIANITV. — Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 pages
...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 bo misunderstood. CHKIST AND CHRISTIANITY. — Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...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 Jo be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded... | |
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