 Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.  Essays - Page 54by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 270 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 604 pages
...to-day. . . . Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." In Emerson's calm impatience of philosophic system there is a fresh touch of that unhesitating assurance... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 598 pages
...to-day. . . . Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be .j great is to be misunderstood." In Emerson's calm impatience of philosophic system there is a fresh... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 pages
...misunderstood1! Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit...sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his lieing, as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere. Nor... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...misunderstood? Pythagoras 250 was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit...took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I hope in these days we have heard the last of con- 255 formity and consistency. Let us affront and reprimand... | |
 | Winston Churchill - 1901 - 562 pages
...Emerson : " Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. " How many have conversed with Lincoln before and since, and knew him not ' homely parables. The story... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every \ pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be jjreat is to be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature. 52 All the sallies of his will... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 532 pages
...misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. — Essay on Self-Reliante. HAVING IT MADE UP. RALPH WALDO EMERSON 199 ment. He assumed that judgment... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 pages
...misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, anc Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit...took flesh. To be / great is to be misunderstood." Page 5S, note 2. As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 pages
...misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Coper nicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. 'To be great is to be misunderstood.1' I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 460 pages
...misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.1 I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in... | |
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