 No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth and goodness and beauty 'are but different faces of the same All.  Nature - Page 22by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 74 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Colin McAlpin - 1915 - 460 pages
...affectional, sympathetic nature ; it is the song-offering of the heart, baptised with cosmic beauty. " Beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and internal beauty." Thus writes Emerson. And music, it might be added, appears to corroborate the dictum.... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Gay - 1928 - 276 pages
...given why the soul seeks Beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression of the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness,...satisfactory good. It must stand as a part, and not yet as the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature." But more important than such idealistic... | |
 | Kenneth Burke - 1966 - 534 pages
...inasmuch as it is an end in itself. But Emerson preserves the design by his concluding decision that "Beauty in nature is not ultimate." It is "the herald of inward and eternal beauty." Nothing could more quickly reveal the terministic resources of the Emersonian dialectic (or, if you... | |
 | René Wellek - 1977 - 396 pages
...incarnation of a thought, and turns to a thought again.« »The world is mind precipitated.« 12. W, i, 24: »God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.« Seite 23 — 24: ». . .the standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms, — the totality... | |
 | Freeman Tilden - 1967 - 196 pages
...happy amateur. The other accomplishments richly engaged his leisure rime. CHAPTER XV Vistas of Beauty Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All. Beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty ... it must stand as... | |
 | Barbara MacKinnon - 1985 - 710 pages
...given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness,...and beauty, are but different faces of the same All. LANGUAGE LANGUAGE is a third use which Nature subserves to man. Nature is the vehicle of thought, and... | |
 | Joshua C. Taylor - 1987 - 580 pages
...given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness,...is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must therefore stand as a part and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.... | |
 | Ray Broadus Browne, Pat Browne - 1991 - 196 pages
...and adds, in Platonist mode that "Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness,...and beauty are but different faces of the same all" (1968: Vol. 1, 19, 24). In another essay, "Michael Angelo," he asserts his belief that "Beauty is the... | |
 | Carol Colatrella, Joseph Alkana - 1994 - 278 pages
...harmonious, satisfactory" (P, 47). Truth is certainly good. Unlike Nietzsche (but like Emerson, for whom "Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All"),18 James is not interested in posing a fundamental challenge to the Platonic evaluation of truth.... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - 318 pages
...it is clear that science and art are perfectly symmetrical in their motives, methods, and results: "Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All" (CW 1:14, 17). When man at last realizes this truth, he will come into the power that has been rightfully... | |
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