The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own. Essays, First Series - Page 275by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
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...mind. Mind is static energy, thought is dynamic energy, the two phases of the same thing."- Walker "The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying...by showing him a new idea which commands his own" - Emerson "What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate."-... | |
| 1921 - 524 pages
...register itself on the body, it also lies at the basis of our moral and spiritual lives. Emerson says, "The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying...which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his thoughts are classified. Hs can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own."... | |
| 1924 - 600 pages
...degrees. Everything looks permanent until its secret is known. The key to every man is his thoughts. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his thoughts are classified." So, when we contemplate Nature, or man's institutions built on Nature, be... | |
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