 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 57by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sanja Sostaric - 2003 - 364 pages
...as its medium: We lie in the lap of immence intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when...Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. ("Self-Reliance," SE: 187) Emerson frequently portrayed holy submission in waterimages, as in the passage... | |
 | Robert Collier - 2003 - 88 pages
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 | Viviane Serfaty - 2004 - 160 pages
...pre-existing univcrsals: "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...nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams" (Emerson 1841). Emerson's insistence on the sheer fragility of the self and the fragility of its quest... | |
 | Robert Collier - 2004 - 484 pages
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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 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...if we seek to pry into the soul that causes — all metaphysics, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man... | |
 | Harold Kaplan - 336 pages
...lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. ... If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into...at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.9 Emerson plausibly understood that human freedom required a suprarational affirmation. But... | |
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