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" Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes;... "
The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 29
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 51 pages
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R.W. Emersons Naturauffassung und ihre philosophischen Ursprünge: eine ...

Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 pages
...Dualismus auf die ursprüngliche Tathandlung hin auf: Why then do we prate of self-reliance? Inasmuch äs the soul is present, there will be power not confident...rather of that which relies, because it works and is.11!) Charakteristisch für eine Vielzahl von Umschreibungen der paradoxen Struktur des Selbstbewußtseins...
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The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism

Cornel West - 1989 - 292 pages
...darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation...rather of that which relies, because it works and is.36 Of course, Emerson's nonconformist conception of self-reliance ("and so the reliance on Property,...
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T.S. Eliot and American Poetry

Lee Oser - 1998 - 204 pages
...darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; for that for ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation...rather of that which relies, because it works and is. (Works, 2:69-70) IOT WOULD PROBABLY HAVE responded to this celebrated passage from "Self- Reliance"...
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Hearing Things: Voice and Method in the Writing of Stanley Cavell

Timothy Gould - 1998 - 253 pages
...reversals of reading implicit in a remark like this from "Self-Reliance": "To talk of self-reliance is a poor external way of speaking. Speak rather of...which relies because it works and is. Who has more obedience than I masters me, though he should not raise his finger." You do not really need the reference...
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The Good Life

Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation...which relies because it works and is. Who has more obedience than I masters me, though he should not raise his finger. Round him I must revolve by the...
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The Poetics of Transition: Emerson, Pragmatism, and American Literary Modernism

Jonathan Levin - 1999 - 244 pages
...when, in exasperation with his own title, Emerson asks, 'Why, then, do we prate of self-reliance? . . . To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking....rather of that which relies, because it works and is.' "" This self-consuming gesture is like the one in "Uses of Great Men" cited earlier, in which Emerson...
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A Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joel Myerson - 2000 - 336 pages
...of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; . . . Why then do we prate of self-reliance? Inasmuch as...rather of that which relies, because it works and is. (CW, 2:40) Emerson emphasizes organic process over final accomplishment, and as in his more conventional...
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Conservation Reconsidered: Nature, Virtue, and American Liberal Democracy

Charles T. Rubin - 2000 - 282 pages
...darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; for that for ever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation...with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. (27 1 ) Any established mode or way of life (better or worse), any culture, obscures the universal...
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Zarathustra’s Dionysian Modernism

Robert Gooding-Williams - 2001 - 444 pages
...darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation...with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Self-Reliance In the Introduction to this book I claimed that when Nietzsche wrote...
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Emerson As Spiritual Guide: A Companion to Emerson's Essays for Personal ...

156 pages
...darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation...rather of that which relies because it works and is. Self-reliance is reliance on "the ever-blessed One," the supreme cause. All things are real by virtue...
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