Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 327by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
| Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 264 pages
...acts, and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended,...think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths ? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking... | |
| Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 318 pages
...acts; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness,—he has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the... | |
| 1838 - 540 pages
...other. When the artist has exhausted his materials — when the fancy no longer paints — when thought* are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness — he has always the resourceto live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function — living is the functionary.... | |
| 1838 - 536 pages
...books, is, that it is a resource." " The mind now thinks ; now acts; and each reproduces the other." " Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary." " Time shall teach him that the scholar loses no hour which the man lives." " There is virtue yet in... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1840 - 694 pages
...acts ; end eacli fit produces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fimcy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended,...source. A great soul will be strong to live, as well us strong to think. Does lie lack organ or medium to impart his truths ? he can still fall back on... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...acts; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended,...the functionary. The stream retreats to its source. JV great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...acts; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness—he has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...acts ; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended,...think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths ? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...acts; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended,...is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Laving is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source. A great soul will be strong to live,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...acts ; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended,...medium to impart his truth? He can still fall back 011 this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking is a partial act. Let the grandeur... | |
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