 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
 | Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...many sources of error. He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. /CHARACTER is higher than intellect. Thinking is the...think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on his elemental force of living them. This is a total act s» Thinking... | |
 | Frederick Paul Keppel - 1920 - 112 pages
...true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed by, as a loss of power"; and elsewhere, "that a great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think." The old idea of the scholar was the recluse, the individual; the new, it seems to me, should be one... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 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,...live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking, is jjje 'function. Living is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source. A great soul will be... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 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, and books are >- weariness, — he has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking... | |
 | Giles Murrel Ruch - 1924 - 216 pages
...stream the long-leaved flowers weep, And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep. Selection 15. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. TEST 5 Poetic Inspiration Directions: Below is a list of fifteen phrases which express the sort of... | |
 | 1925 - 666 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."51 "The true scholar grudges every opportunity for action passed by as a loss of power. It is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 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 - 1926 - 398 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... | |
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin, Amos Reno Morris, Melvin Theodor Solve, Carlton Frank Wells - 1928 - 612 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... | |
 | Henry Miller - 1969 - 324 pages
...straw." (THOMAS AQUINAS on his deathbed.) " When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended,...weariness — he has always the resource to live." (RALPH WALDO EMERSON.) "All is marvellous for the poet, all is divine for the saint, all is great for... | |
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