 We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams.  Essays, First Series - Page 72by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1891 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discriminates between the voluntary acts of his mind and his involuntary perceptions, and knows that... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we...comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discriminates between... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we...comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discriminates between... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we...comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discriminates between... | |
 | 1896 - 234 pages
...the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we...comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discriminates between... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 pages
...the lap of immense Intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we...Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm." The same thought, which lies at the basis of nearly all his Essays in inexhaustible richness, is fully... | |
 | William James - 1898 - 88 pages
...the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we...nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams." [Self-Reliance, p. 56.] But it is not necessary to identify the consciousness postulated in the lecture,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we...comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault . Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discriminates... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we...comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man . discriminates... | |
 | George Holmes Howison - 1901 - 446 pages
...the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we...nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams.' " All this is in even keeping with Professor James's other sentence,3 that "we need only suppose the... | |
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