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" 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. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... "
Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 269
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...only the old thought with a new face, and though we make it our own, we instantly crave another; we are not really enriched. For the truth was in us,...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in Whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,...
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Cooper's Journal: Or, Unfettered Thinker and Plain Speaker for Truth ...

Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 pages
...universal spirit speaks to the individual, and strives to lead back the individual to it. TRUTH. — God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,...
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Cooper's Journal: Or, Unfettered Thinker and Plain Speaker for Truth ...

Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...universal spirit speaks to the individual, and strives to lead back the individual to it. TKUTH. — God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,...
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Cooper's Journal: Or, Unfettered Thinker and Plain Speaker for ..., Volume 1

Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 pages
...the individual to it. TRUTH. — God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Tako which you please — you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,...
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The Popular lecturer [afterw.] Pitman's Popular lecturer (and ..., Volumes 1-3

Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...the overshadow ing knowledge of the world's great men, is chilled into apathy, remember — " That God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose, take which you please, — you can never have them both ! " Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates,...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...only the old thought with a new face, and though we make it our own, we instantly crave another ; we are not really enriched. For the truth was in us before...party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets test, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates...
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A Journey to Great-Salt-Lake City, Volume 1

Jules Remy, Julius Lucius Brenchley - 1861 - 674 pages
...for that and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure and thought is thereby augumented. . . . God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,...
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The credentials of conscience: a few reasons for the popularity of [sir J.R ...

Maria Hall - 1868 - 410 pages
...mean the orthodoxy alluded to in " Ecce Homo " as " always easy for a thoughtless man to receive." " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose. Take which you please, you can never have both. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the...
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Essays: First series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...only the old thought with a new face, and though we make it our own, we instantly crave another ; we are not really enriched. For the truth was in us before...father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but ho shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between trulh and repose. Take which you please, — you can never...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. ]!;, in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the...
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