 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 312by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Hugh De Sélincourt - 1915 - 330 pages
...and ask him for another kiss which she promised not to wipe off. XXXV God offers to every mind itt choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both. — EMEBSON. WHEN Jeremy left, Constance thought : " Oh, I'll make it up with him next week-end, poor... | |
 | George Frederick Gundelfinger - 1916 - 348 pages
...college rules. What you have aggregated in a natural manner surprises and delights when it is produced.* God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please, — you can never have both.* Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers, each of whom seems at the time to have a... | |
 | Hugh De Sélincourt - 1917 - 350 pages
...ran: " Emerson would have been a great man if he had written nothing else than the one sentence: ' God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both'" I smiled merely at his habitual exaggeration, and with my collect in my mind wondered what Emerson... | |
 | William Stephen Rainsford - 1922 - 516 pages
...make no excuse for them. They were healthy and inevitable. In his essay on Intellect, Emerson says: God offers" to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you cannot have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom love of repose predominates,... | |
 | William Stephen Rainsford - 1922 - 518 pages
...for them. They were healthy and inevitable. In his essay on Intellect, Emerson says: God offers'to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you cannot have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom love of repose predominates,... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1923 - 210 pages
...men." In his own mental poise, he seems to me to have belied one of his most profound utterances — "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both." In some fashion as inexplicable as his intuitions, he managed without compromising to take both. So... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...his poetry has a decided prose quality, fie had an immortal thirst for Truth, and said, "God gives every mind its choice between Truth and Repose. Take which you please; you can never have both." No one can read Emerson with his denunciation of moral cowardice, his appeal for personal independence,... | |
 | Ernest Brennecke - 1925 - 314 pages
...derived from the facts of life. If it is true that, as Emerson once said, "God offers to ) every mind his choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both," then Thomas Hardy has forever forsworn the delights of repose and calm. Particularly in his earlier... | |
 | "Diogenes" (pseud.) - 1926 - 104 pages
...this restlessness that spurs on to strife and conquest. "God offers to every mind," Emerson thinks, "its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can not have both." We seem to be enveloped by the force of achievement and the search for truth should... | |
 | 1928 - 418 pages
...class-room, is said to be one of the most prominent men " on the campus." " God offers to every mind the choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both." So says Emerson, the American master of wisdom. Perhaps in the fortunate and somewhat artificial life... | |
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