I am only an experimenter. Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle anything as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred ; none are profane ; I simply experiment,... Ralph Waldo Emerson. John Lathrop Motley - Page 133by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 334 pages
...I should mislead any when I have my own head, and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that lam only an experimenter. Do not set the least value on...experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at my back. Yet this incessant movement and progresion, which all things partake, could never become sensible to... | |
| John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 264 pages
...do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle anything as false or true. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred,...experiment, an endless seeker with no past at my back." lie was not engaged jnteaching many things, but one thing, — Courage. Sometimes he inspires it by... | |
| John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 276 pages
...do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle anything as false or true. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred,...experiment, an endless seeker with no past at my back." He was not engaged in teaching many things, but one thing, — Courage. Sometimes he inspires it by... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...selfishness and sin itself; so that no evil is pure, nor hell itself without its extreme satisfactions. But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head...experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at my back. Yet this incessant movement and progression which all things partake could never become sensible to... | |
| 1899 - 136 pages
...Cause and effect are the two sides of one fact. There is no virtue which is final ; all are initial. No facts are to me sacred ; none are profane ; I simply...experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young. / In nature every moment... | |
| James Lawrence Onderdonk - 1901 - 408 pages
...selfishness and sin itself; so that no evil is pure, nor hell itself without its extreme satisfactions. But lest I should mislead any, when I have my own...experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back. " He was the advocate of the individual conscience, but it was always on the assumption that the impulses... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 pages
...that no evil is pure, nor hell itself without its extreme satisfactions. But lest I should mis lead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let...experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at my back. Yet this incessant movement and progression which all things partake could never become sensible to... | |
| John Burroughs - 1902 - 280 pages
...by spurts and sallies of the mind. He called himself an " experimenter," and said he did not pretend to settle anything as true or false. " I unsettle...experiment; an endless seeker with no Past at my back." In his random, prophetic way he hits on many sublime truths — hits on them by sheer force of affirmation,... | |
| John Burroughs - 1902 - 290 pages
...by spurts and sallies of the mind. He called himself an " experimenter," and said he did not pretend to settle anything as true or false. " I unsettle...experiment ; an endless seeker with no Past at my back." In his random, prophetic way he hits on many sublime truths — hits on them by sheer force of affirmation,... | |
| John Burroughs - 1902 - 288 pages
...by spurts and sallies of the mind. He called himself an " experimenter," and said he did not pretend to settle anything as true or false. " I unsettle...experiment ; an endless seeker with no Past at my hack." In his random, prophetic way he hits on many sublime truths — hits on them hy sheer force... | |
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