The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 12Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1921 |
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Page 9
... heaven must be plucked down and packed into rockets to this . end . What with egotism on one side and levity on the other , we shall have no Olympus . But there is still another hindrance , namely , practicality . We must have a special ...
... heaven must be plucked down and packed into rockets to this . end . What with egotism on one side and levity on the other , we shall have no Olympus . But there is still another hindrance , namely , practicality . We must have a special ...
Page 10
... heaven it tells of , and the resisting this conspiracy of men and material things against the sanitary and legitimate inspirations of the intellectual nature . ' What is life but the angle of vision ? A man is measured by the angle at ...
... heaven it tells of , and the resisting this conspiracy of men and material things against the sanitary and legitimate inspirations of the intellectual nature . ' What is life but the angle of vision ? A man is measured by the angle at ...
Page 13
... heaven with arches and abutments of pure reason . I am fully contented if you tell me where are the two termini . My metaphysics are to the end of use . I wish to know the laws of this wonderful power , POWERS AND LAWS OF THOUGHT 13.
... heaven with arches and abutments of pure reason . I am fully contented if you tell me where are the two termini . My metaphysics are to the end of use . I wish to know the laws of this wonderful power , POWERS AND LAWS OF THOUGHT 13.
Page 17
... heaven within heaven . Every just thinker has attempted to indicate these degrees , these steps on the heavenly stair , until he comes to light where language fails him . Above the thought is the higher truth , — truth as yet ...
... heaven within heaven . Every just thinker has attempted to indicate these degrees , these steps on the heavenly stair , until he comes to light where language fails him . Above the thought is the higher truth , — truth as yet ...
Page 41
... ' Do not trifle with your perceptions , or hold them cheap . They are your door to the seven heavens , and if you pass it by you will miss your way . Say , what impresses me ought to impress POWERS AND LAWS OF THOUGHT.
... ' Do not trifle with your perceptions , or hold them cheap . They are your door to the seven heavens , and if you pass it by you will miss your way . Say , what impresses me ought to impress POWERS AND LAWS OF THOUGHT.
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