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
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 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...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...been insane, owes its popularity to the fact 1 The highest possible attainment. 2 The life of monks. comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes,...the voluntary acts of his mind and his involuntary percep5 tions, and knows that to his involuntary perceptions a perfect faith is due. He may err in... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 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. . . . Perception... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1907 - 578 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...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. . . . Perception... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, — all metaphysics, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all \ve can affirm. . . . Perception is not whimsical, but fatal. If I see a trait, my children will see... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 pages
...impiety and atheism. 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...allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this conies, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its... | |
| 1909 - 540 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 636 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 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...whence this comes, 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.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern jus- 30 tice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves,...presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discerns between the voluntary acts of his mind and his involuntary perceptions, and knows that to... | |
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