 Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths?  Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 327by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...acts ; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended,...think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths ? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apI iiprehended, and books are a weariness, — he has always the [^resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Think1 ing is the function. Living is the 'functionary. The stream retreats to its source. A great... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...acts ; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended,...as strong to think. Does he lack organ or medium to iiupart his truths ? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 336 pages
...acts; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended,...will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. Docs he lack organ or medinm to impart his truths ? He can still fall back on this elemental force... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...aels ; and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended,...are a weariness, — he has always the resource to lie/'. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 pages
...; and . each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended,...are a weariness, — he has always the resource to lice, riiarantpr is liijrljpr tjianJntcJlccL, Thinjjiug is.tliS. fruictiQIi. Hyiugjs Jjie functionary.^... | |
 | 1925 - 700 pages
...men's transcripts of their reading."50 Though action with a scholar may be subordinate it is essential. "A great soul will be strong to live as well as strong to think."61 "The true scholar grudges every opportunity for action passed by as a loss of power. It is... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 pages
...embody themselves in action. The end of all truth is character and a more perfect .moral nature. " A great soul will be strong to live as well as strong to think." As the source o^ truth is not books, but mental activity, we are to cultivate spU'-tri-isr! Help can... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 674 pages
...other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thought; are no longer apprehended and books are a weariness....to impart his truth? He can still fall back on this elemenJtal force of living them. This ia a total act. (Thinking ia a partial act. Let the grandeur... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 394 pages
...acts, and each fit reproduces the other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended...soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to tliink. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truth ? He can still fall back on this elernental... | |
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