 What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make...  Complete Works - Page 254by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900Full view - About this book
 | Emory Holloway - 1926 - 378 pages
...of our being, in which they live — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed. . . . When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius;...when it flows through his affection, it is love." "The soul circumscribes all things. As I have said, it contradicts all experience. In like manner it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through...When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius p«vhen it breathes through his will, it is virtue ; when it flows through his affection, it is love.... | |
 | Helen Keller - 1927 - 230 pages
...attitude, and wrote: "The weakness of the will begins when the individual would be something of himself. And the blindness of the intellect begins when it would be something of itself." Nothing but letting the Divine Life have its way through us will deliver the world. This is the true... | |
 | ANZAAS. - 1931 - 656 pages
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 | Van Wyck Brooks - 1932 - 330 pages
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 | André Célières - 1936 - 112 pages
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 | Stephen Lee Ely - 1937 - 796 pages
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 | 1907 - 474 pages
...intellect and the will, is the background of our being in which they lie. When the soul, whose organ he is, breathes through his intellect, it is genius ; when...; when it flows through his affection it is love. The blindness of the intellect begins when it would be something of itself. The weakness of the will... | |
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