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
| Graham Parkes - 1994 - 514 pages
...anticipations of the complex (and much misunderstood) idea of will to power. Schopenhauer and Wagner God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. Emerson, "Intellect" Although Nietzsche had decided to study classical philology, pressure from his... | |
| Gilbert Geis, Ivan Bunn - 1997 - 308 pages
...RD37LWS6G4S 1997 345.42'0288-dc21 97-8354 CIP AC ISBN O-ilS-17108-3 ihbk) ISBN 0-H5-17KW-1 "God often, to every mind its choice between truth and repose....Take which you please — you can never have both." Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Intellect" "For a clever man, nothing is easier than to rind arguments that will... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...virtues have not been discovered. 3337 A friend may well be reckoned to be a masterpiece of nature. 3338 ghts; Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: 3339 A good indignation brings out all one's powers. 3311 3340 Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.... | |
| John Jay Chapman - 1998 - 244 pages
...them catch and hang your own experiences, till what was once his thought has become your character. "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose. Take which you please; you can never have both." "Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will." "It is impossible for a man to be cheated... | |
| Delbert D. Thiessen - 170 pages
...deceive one's self; for what we wish, we readily believe. Demosthenes Athenian orator Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both. But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has... | |
| Richard G. Geldard - 1999 - 200 pages
...which the mind vibrates like a pendulum; one, the desire of Truth; the other, the desire of Repose. He in whom the love of Repose predominates, will accept the first creed he meets, Arianism, Calvinism, Socinianism; he gets rest and reputation; but he shuts the door of Truth.... | |
| Thomas B. McMullen, Jr - 1998 - 324 pages
...thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified." °* Confucius, The Great Learning (verses 4-5) "God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take that which you please — you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He... | |
| Charles Ives - 1962 - 292 pages
...mind— the choice between repose and truth— and God makes the offer. "Take which you please— . . . Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in...first political party he meets— most likely his father's."0 He gets rest, commodity, and reputation. Here is another aspect of art-duality, but it... | |
| Chaim Stern - 2000 - 388 pages
...before stagnation, the leap of the torrent before the stillness of the swamp. Ralph Waldo Enter son God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both. Samuel Jolmson All theory is against freedom of will; all experience for it. Thursday Mislmah Even... | |
| Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.) - 1978 - 1092 pages
...thoughts and public behavior."27 He took from Emerson a consoling thought for his commonplace book; "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose. Take which you please — you can never have both."38 No one quite had the answer. "I do not understand the animus against Bobby," said William... | |
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