No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts. People wish to be settled ; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. Every Day with Emerson - Page 73by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 99 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ross Posnock - 1991 - 378 pages
...movements traverse: "Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.... No truth is so sublime but it may be trivial tomorrow in the light...settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any help for them" (413). By stripping himself of the props of the familiar, Henry James does not hope... | |
| David Wisdo - 1993 - 168 pages
...are willing to forgo the security of their own parochial point of view. For there is, he says, "No truth so sublime but it may be trivial tomorrow in...as they are unsettled, is there any hope for them." 11 At this point it should be clear that the open-ended free play of Emersonian pragmatism calls into... | |
| Raymond Carney - 1994 - 340 pages
...energizing spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime, but it may be trivial tomorrow in...as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. 11 Yet even if they are describing the same general imaginative predicament, this passage points up... | |
| Peter Roger Breggin - 1994 - 484 pages
...Panic Attacks, Depersonalization, Phobias, Obsessions and Compulsions, Addictions, and Eating Disorders People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. . . . He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. —Ralph Waldo... | |
| Russell B. Goodman - 1995 - 332 pages
...energizing spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in...as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. Life is a series of surprises. We do not guess to-day the mood, the pleasure, the power of tomorrow,... | |
| David Bruce McWhirter, David McWhirter - 1998 - 404 pages
...movements traverse: "Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit. . . . No truth is so sublime but it may be trivial tomorrow in the light...settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any help for them." By stripping himself of the props of the familiar, Henry James does not hope to recover... | |
| Lous Heshusius, Keith Ballard - 1996 - 224 pages
...from one of my favorite writers, Ralph Waldo Emerson (in Richardson, 1990, p. 199), comes to mind: "People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them." I know he was right. To be so unsettled, shocked really, propelled me into a more complex view, and... | |
| Eduardo Cadava - 1997 - 276 pages
...energizing spirit. No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial tomorrow in...as they are unsettled is there any hope for them" (W, 2: 31920). As a historical process of sheer transition and transformation, power — whether religious,... | |
| Mike Bryan - 1997 - 372 pages
...the horizon.* By now, however, I was unfazed. I had found consolation in this epigram from Emerson: "People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them." That's nothing but good news for my wife and me, and nothing but good news for this culture, too. I... | |
| Reto Luzius Fetz, Roland Hagenbüchle, Peter Schulz - 1998 - 1414 pages
...(LoA, S. 405) —, Bauten folglich als Hindernisse zu betrachten sind, die das freie Denken einreißt: „People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them" (LoA, S. 413). Das glückliche Ich, so führt er in „Compensation" aus, wird nicht nur die ,Schale'... | |
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