 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: First Series - Page 54by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 322 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 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. . . . RALPH WALDO EMEBSON — Essays * 302. THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN themselves Your sacred plants, if... | |
 | 1924 - 322 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. — Emerson. 'T'HE art of fiction has, in fact, be- TT i •*• come a finer art in our day than it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 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. SELF-RELIANCE JJut if he had the earth for his pasture, and the sea for his pond, he would be a pauper... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 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. "I*b be great is to be misunderstood^ I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit...to be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate hTs nature. All the' sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being, as the inequalities... | |
 | Louis Wann - 1926 - 560 pages
...countenance ; but the sour wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be faces of the multitude, like their sweet great is to be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature, cause it is no ephemera. It is always anAll the sallies of his will are rounded in cient virtue. We... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit...law of his being, as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh.are insignificant in the curve of the sphere. Nor docs, it matter how you gauge and try him.... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert - 1927 - 560 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. Or again: Judge not that ye be not judged: for with what judgment ye judge it shall be measured to... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration - 1994 - 98 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." Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882); American essayist, poet and philosopher; "Self-Reliance," Essay, First... | |
 | Dean Keith Simonton - 1994 - 518 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. And Walt Whitman proclaimed in his "Song of Myself": Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict... | |
| |
