 I call an ultimate end. 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...  Ralph Waldo Emerson: Philosopher and Poet - Page 121by Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 327 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 392 pages
...to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profounclest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 398 pages
...to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty,...nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty, and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must stand as a part, and not as... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 488 pages
...Rhodora." A good deal of his philosophy comes out in these concluding sentences of the chapter : — " Beauty in its largest and profoundest sense is one...Nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty, and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must therefore stand as a part and... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 588 pages
...Rhodora. " A good deal of his philosophy comes out in these concluding sentences of the chapter : — "Beauty in its largest and profoundest sense is one...Nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty, and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must therefore stand as a part and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 pages
...to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty,...and beauty, are but different faces of the same ALL Hut beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty, and is not alone... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1884 - 536 pages
...to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty,...and beauty are but different faces of the same All. Again, he says, in that fine strain of rhapsody which forms his essay on the Poet: "God has not made... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 328 pages
...to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty,...and goodness and beauty are but different faces of (lie same All. But beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and internal beauty,... | |
 | 1884 - 354 pages
...that the object itself does not exist except in the concept." " Beauty," says Emerson in " Nature," " in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression...and beauty are but different faces of the same All." This is but another utterance of that central principle of Hegel's Logic — that the Absolute is all... | |
 | 1905 - 842 pages
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 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 pages
...universe. God is the All-fair. Truth ami goodness and beauty are but difl'erent faces of the same All. Rut beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty, and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must stand as a part, and not as... | |
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