 | 1838 - 536 pages
...Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books." " Books are good only to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be...orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system." " The soul active sees absolute truth ; and utters truth, or creates. In this action, it is genius ; not... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...What is the right use ? What is the one end which all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be...The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul,—the soul, free, sovereign, active. This, every man is entitled to ; this every man contains... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than lo be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit,...The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul,—the soul, free, sovereign, active. This, every man is entitled to ; this, every man contains... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...is the right use ? What is the one end, which all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be...thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to ; this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed,... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pages
...is the right use ? What is the one end, which all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be...thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to ; this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed,... | |
 | 1898 - 404 pages
...What is the right use? What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be...one thing in the world of value is the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although in almost all men, obstructed,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...is the right use ? What is the one end, which all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be...one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul This every man is entitled to ; this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...is the right use ? What is the one end, which all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be...and made a satellite instead of a system. The one 8 thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to ; this every man... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...is the right use ? What is the one end, which all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be...warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, aud made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...is the right use ? What is the one end, which all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be...thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to : this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed,... | |
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They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. 
