 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 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...bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genins ; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue ; when it flows through his affection, it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 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...bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is geuius ; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue; when it flows through his affection, it is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 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...And the blindness of the intellect begins when it O would be something of itself. The weakness of the will begins when the individual would be something... | |
 | Henry Bellyse Baildon - 1884 - 66 pages
...we know him represent himself but rather misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul whose organ he is, would he let it appear through...virtue, when it flows through his affection it is love." Again : — " The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of... | |
 | Henry Bellyse Baildon - 1884 - 64 pages
...we know him represent himself but rather misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul whose organ he is, would he let it appear through...virtue, when it flows through his affection it is love." Again : — " The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of... | |
 | Warren Felt Evans - 1884 - 236 pages
...can do nothing of himself," or by himself. Echoing this necessary and eternal truth, Emerson says : " The blindness of the intellect begins when it would...when the individual would be something of himself." It was a maxim of the Hermetic philosophy, that "power belongs to him who knows," which refers to the... | |
 | Warren Felt Evans - 1885 - 258 pages
...can do nothing of himself," or by himself. Echoing this necessary and eternal truth, Emerson says: " The blindness of the intellect begins when it would...when the individual would be something of himself." It was a maxim of the Hermetic philosophy, that "power belongs to him who knows," which refers to the... | |
 | Warren Felt Evans - 1885 - 238 pages
...and eternal truth, Emerson says : " The Blindness of the intellect begins 30 THE PRIMITIVE MIND-CURE. when it would be something of itself. The weakness...when the individual would be something of himself." It was a maxim of the Hermetic philosophy, that "power belongs to him who knows," which refers to the... | |
 | Luther M. Marston - 1887 - 150 pages
...know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul (Spirit), whose organ he is, would he let it appear through...when it flows through his affection, it is love." Here, then, we catch a glimpse of the grand and inspiring thought that, in our search after truth,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1887 - 360 pages
...becomes almost a Calvinist. " When," Emerson says, " this soul breathes through the intellect of man, it is genius ; when it breathes through his will,...when it flows through his affection, it is love." The impotence of man when deprived of this divine inspiration and support has hardly ever been more... | |
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