 Why, then, do we prate of self-reliance ? Inasmuch as the soul is present, there will be power not confident but agent. To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking. Speak rather of that which relies, because it works and is.  Essays: First Series - Page 78by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why, then, do we prate of self-reliance? Inasmuch as the...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Cornel West - 1989 - 292 pages
...reputation to a shame, confounds the Saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why, then, do we prate of self-reliance? Inasmuch as the...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,... | |
 | John Fentress Gardner - 1996 - 246 pages
...seek in this folly the beginning of wisdom. Authority, Discipline, and Freedom Who has more obedience than I masters me, though he should not raise his...him I must revolve by the gravitation of spirits. —Emerson THOSE WHO DISPUTE about how to educate free individualities must debate the effects of childish... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why then do we prate of selfreliance? Inasmuch as the...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Joel Myerson - 2000 - 336 pages
...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 the...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... | |
 | David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 pages
...capital sufficiently great to accrue profit with no apparent effort, the reader "who has more obedience than I masters me, though he should not raise his...him I must revolve by the gravitation of spirits" (E, 272). This occlusion of the reading self, which in Heidegger's Nietzsche occurs as the elision... | |
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...reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside. Why then do we prate of self-reliance? Inasmuch as the...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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