 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 - 2004 - 256 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 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. —SELF-RELIANCE Do you find exhilaration and energy in "the shooting of the gulfj' in the transition... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 284 pages
...way of speaking. Speak rather of that which relies because it works and is. Who has more obedience than I masters me. though he should not raise his...him I must revolve by the gravitation of spirits. We fancy it rhetoric when we speak of eminent virtue. We do not yet see that virtue is Height, and... | |
 | Mitchell Meltzer - 2005 - 216 pages
...transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim . . . Why, then, do we prate of self-reliance? Inasmuch as the...rather of that which relies, because it works and is.21 Here the very idea of a self in all its whim-directed integrity is itself dismissed as too composed,... | |
 | Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 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... | |
 | Branka Arsi? - 2007 - 234 pages
...because this power is the power of de-individuation, of involuntary capacity, that Emerson will say: "To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking....which relies, because it works and is. Who has more obedience than me masters me" (p. 272). 54. Emerson, "The Transcendentalism" pp. 197-98. 55. Deleuze,... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 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... | |
 | John T. Lysaker - 2008 - 244 pages
...self-trust altogether, Emerson simply cautions us not to overly valorize the act of obedience: "To speak of reliance, is a poor external way of speaking. Speak...rather of that which relies, because it works and is" (CW2, 40). This second line is oblique. The temptation is to read "that which relies, because it works... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 430 pages
...way of speaking. Speak rather of that which relies because it works and is. Who has more obedience than I masters me, though he should not raise his...him I must revolve by the gravitation of spirits. We fancy it rhetoric when we speak of eminent virtue. We do not yet see that virtue is Height, and... | |
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