 He in whom the love of .repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.  A Journey to Great-Salt-Lake City - Page lvby Jules Remy, Julius Lucius Brenchley - 1861Full view - About this book
 | 1901 - 744 pages
...convulsive, averse to all stagnation. As one of the greatest of nineteenth- century philosophers has said, " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which yon please — you can never have both." This, then, was the age when men were choosing Truth rather... | |
 | 1912 - 880 pages
...occupations. The keynote of this volume Is a quotation taken from Emerson's Essay on Intellect which begins, "God offers to every mind Its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both." Jacob is a "candidate for truth," according to Emerson, In that he submits to the "Inconvenience of... | |
 | 1848 - 614 pages
...freedom and. the truthfulness of his thought. His essays are jeplete with passages such as this : — " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you ean never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...freedom and the truthfulness of his thought. His essays are replete with passages such as ! this : — " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you ean never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure. in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please,—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...tilings for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. ' God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first... | |
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