 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 - Page 28by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1840 - 586 pages
...nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for harren contemplation, but for new creation. P. 28. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different...herald of inward and eternal beauty, and is not alone solid and satisfactory good. It must, therefore, siand as a part, and not, as yet, the last or highest... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1865 - 630 pages
...truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even unto the era of manhood. " God is the All-fair. Truth and goodness and beauty are but different faces of the same All. Beauty in Nature is not ultimate: it is the herald of inward and eternal beauty, and must stand as... | |
 | 1881 - 510 pages
...circumference. It is the pith and marrow of every substance, every relation, and every process." " Beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald...not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must, therefore, stand as apart, and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final Cause of nature.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...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...is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must therefore stand as a part and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...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 the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, c are but different faces of the same All. But beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...Beauty, in its largest and profouudest sense, is one expression for the universe — God is the all- fair truth; and goodness and beauty are but different faces...nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and external beauty, it is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It mubt therefore stand as a part,... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 pages
...expression for tho .Diverse — God is the all- fair truth; and goodness and beauty are but different .'aces of the same All. But beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of "~"""--.l and external beauty, it is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. Jt muit therefore stand... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 pages
...actions have been simple, and all great pictures are. BEAUTY. — Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe — God is the all-fair truth; and goodness and beauty arc but dînèrent faces of the same All. But beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 816 pages
...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 the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, arc but different faces of the s.imo All. But beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fain Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different...is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must therefore stand as a part, and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.... | |
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