The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lecturesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 68
Page 24
... whole . A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace . ' The poet , the painter , the sculptor , the musician , the architect , seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point , and each ...
... whole . A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace . ' The poet , the painter , the sculptor , the musician , the architect , seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point , and each ...
Page 28
... Whole floras , all Linnæus ' and Buffon's volumes , are dry cata- logues of facts ; but the most trivial of these facts , the habit of a plant , the organs , or work , or noise of an insect , applied to the illustration of a fact in ...
... Whole floras , all Linnæus ' and Buffon's volumes , are dry cata- logues of facts ; but the most trivial of these facts , the habit of a plant , the organs , or work , or noise of an insect , applied to the illustration of a fact in ...
Page 32
... them as emblems of our thoughts ? The world is emblematic . Parts of speech are metaphors , because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind . The laws of moral nature an- I swer to those of matter as face to face in 32 NATURE.
... them as emblems of our thoughts ? The world is emblematic . Parts of speech are metaphors , because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind . The laws of moral nature an- I swer to those of matter as face to face in 32 NATURE.
Page 33
... whole is greater than its part ; " " reaction is equal to action ; " " the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest , the difference of weight being compensated by time ; " and many the like pro- positions , which have an ...
... whole is greater than its part ; " " reaction is equal to action ; " " the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest , the difference of weight being compensated by time ; " and many the like pro- positions , which have an ...
Page 38
... whole character and fortune of the indi- vidual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding ; for example , in the perception of differences . Therefore is Space , and therefore Time , that man may know ...
... whole character and fortune of the indi- vidual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding ; for example , in the perception of differences . Therefore is Space , and therefore Time , that man may know ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action American appears beauty become behold better Boston Brook Farm called character church conservatism divine doctrine earth Emanuel Swedenborg England Essays eternal exist F. B. Sanborn fact faculties faith feel genius George William Curtis give heart heaven Henry Thoreau Heraclitus hope hour human ideas inspiration intellect John Sterling Journal labor land lectures light live look means ment mind moral nature never noble objects Over-Soul persons Phi Beta Kappa philosophy plant Plato Plotinus Poems poet poetry Ralph Waldo Emerson reason reform religion rich scholar seems sense sentiment society solitude soul speak spirit stand stars sublime things thou thought tion trade Transcendentalist true truth ture Unitarian universal verse virtue whilst whole wisdom wish words writing Xenophanes young youth Zoroaster
Popular passages
Page 428 - For what is a man profited if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul: or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul,
Page 425 - Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Page 110 - If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Page 111 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Proven9al minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
Page 82 - The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime; that there is One Man, — present to all particular men only partially, or through one faculty; and that you must take the whole society to find the whole man.
Page 17 - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
Page 24 - The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call 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 for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth and goodness and beauty 'are but different faces of the same All.
Page 103 - ... learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds. He learns that he who has mastered any law in his private thoughts is master to that extent of all men whose language he speaks and of all into whose language his own can be translated. The poet, in utter solitude remembering his spontaneous thoughts and recording them, is found to have recorded that which men in crowded cities find true for them also.
Page 4 - Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like manner, Nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design. Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us. Let us inquire, to what end is Nature ? All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of Nature.
Page 417 - Line in nature is not found; Unit and universe are round; In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn.