 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 269by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876Full view - About this book
 | 1900 - 868 pages
...broad field of medical vision, from which eventuates the cultured medical man. Emerson tells us that God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please— you can never have both. In medicine, the physician in whom the love of repose predominates, will never advance much beyond... | |
 | Mary Perry King - 1900 - 152 pages
...riddle of existence which Emerson has expressed in the saying, " God gives to every man the choice 4 between truth and repose; take which you please, you can never have both." In this dilemma, as he came dimly to recognize it, man cast about for a path of escape. Hampered by... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 110 pages
...rfgb,t architect can build any house well who does not know something of anatomy. Jffebruarg nine (~JOD offers to every mind its choice between truth and...Take which you please — you can never have both. Intellect jfc brnarg l«t HP HE key to every man is his thought. Circles Jflcbrimry rlrlicti TF we... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 464 pages
...things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.1 God offers to every mind its choice between truth...love of repose predominates will accept the first creeds the first philosophy, the first political party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets... | |
 | 1903 - 668 pages
...worshiped are documents of character," and the world is the same now as in the past. Emerson says: "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please ; you can never have both." He who wishes repose will take the course which attracts the loudest applause ; the most substantial... | |
 | Sheldon Leavitt - 1903 - 262 pages
...channels. Happy is he who can keep his mental powers in a state of plasticity and his thoughts limpid. " 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... | |
 | Horatio Willis Dresser - 1903 - 468 pages
...view that this seems inconsistent. We must be ready to move forward in order to retain what we have. " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take what you please — you can never have both." "Men walk as prophecies of the next age." It is what... | |
 | 1912 - 214 pages
...at the outset in a quotation from K.oaa. Emerson's essay on Intellect : the passage which begins " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both. . . ." And so Jacob, the truth-seeker, wanders blind and unheroic through life, striving to relate... | |
 | 1904 - 214 pages
...corrects thy error is as consistent with freedom as it is to persist in thy error. NOVEMBER 14. Morning. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you cannot have both. — Emerson. Evening. Do not covet that which it is not lawful for thee to have.... | |
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