 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,...  Essays, First Series - Page 269by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 2004 - 457 pages
...this planet. Then all things are at risk." . " God enters by a private door into every individuaL" " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which yon please,—you can never have both." "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...(demonstrably, though he would omit the opening "God offers . . .") on the life of Friedrich Nietzsche: God offers to every mind its choice between Truth...will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, die first political party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation.... | |
 | Mitchell Meltzer - 2005 - 216 pages
...eloquence; let any reader familiar with Emerson's Essays attempt to match each with its corresponding essay: God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose. Take which you please; — you can never have both.1 Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat... | |
 | Ross Posnock, Associate Professor of English Ross Posnock - 2006 - 334 pages
...and "take which you please, — you can never have both." He in whom "the love of repose dominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,...his father's He gets rest, commodity and reputation. ... He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from all moorings, and afloat"... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2006 - 98 pages
...slight dislocations which apprize us that this surface on which we now stand is not fixed, but sliding. God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please, - -you can never have both. He who is immersed in what concerns person or place cannot see the problem of existence. This the intellect... | |
 | Larry Chang - 2006 - 826 pages
...world ignores him and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him. - Honore de Balzac, 1799-1850 He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first you. political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation;... | |
 | M.P. Singh - 2005 - 324 pages
...to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth." — Oscar Wilde "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please - you can never have both." — Ralph Waldo Emerson "The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths, which are too complicated;... | |
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