 Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end. There is not a piece of science but its flank...  Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 90by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ninian Smart, John Clayton, Patrick Sherry, Steven T. Katz - 1988 - 372 pages
...power to upheave all thy creed . . . and marshal! thce to a heaven that no epic dream has yet depicted. There is not a piece of science but its flank may...turned tomorrow; there is not any literary reputation . . . that may not be revised and condemned . . . Life is full of surprises. When Emerson is empathically... | |
 | Stephen Fredman - 1993 - 196 pages
...destructive than they are preservative: Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration...and condemned. The very hopes of man, the thoughts of his heart, the religion of nations, the manners and morals of mankind, are all at the mercy of a... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - 1995 - 332 pages
...as to preclude a still higher vision. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration...and condemned. The very hopes of man, the thoughts of his heart, the religion of nations, the manners and morals of mankind are all at the mercy of a... | |
 | C. A. Meier - 1995 - 184 pages
...immense and innumerable expansions.... Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration...reputation, not the so-called eternal names of fame, and may not be revised and condemned. The very hopes of man, the thoughts of his heart, the religion... | |
 | Hilton Hotema - 1996 - 74 pages
...miss what you never had." This One "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration...the so-called eternal names of fame, that may not be reviled and condemned. The very hopes of man, the thoughts of his heart, the religion of nations, the... | |
 | Henry H. Brown - 1996 - 114 pages
...beware of him for when God lets loose one "then all things are at risk — no man knows what is safe nor where it will end. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned tomorrow. The very hopes of man, the thoughts of his heart, the religion of nations, the manners and morals of... | |
 | Wallace D. Wattles - 1930 - 166 pages
...harbor." — JW Teal. "When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the socalled eternal names of fame that may not be refused and condemned."... | |
 | Friedrich Nietzsche - 1997 - 330 pages
...tremendous forces. 'Beware', says Emerson, 'when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration...of fame, that may not be revised and condemned; the things which are dear to men at this hour are so on account of the ideas which have emerged on their... | |
 | Hilton Hotema - 1997 - 194 pages
...idolatry. Of thinkers, Emerson remarks: "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration...will end. There is not a piece of science, but its flanks may be turned to-morrow; there is not any literary reputation, not the so-called eternal names... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - 1998 - 438 pages
..."Beware," says Emerson, "when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at 30 risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end. There is not a piece of science but its... | |
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