 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 - 1983 - 1196 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... | |
 | Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - 1988 - 300 pages
...of the five epigraphs for the book. " 'When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness—he has always the resource to live.'" Such elevating of life over books clearly reinforces... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 1990 - 207 pages
...as "favoring or biassed toward" something or someone. Here is Emerson weaving some of this together: Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. ... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. Does he lack organ or medium to... | |
 | Robert F. Sayre - 1994 - 750 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 a weariness,—he has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the... | |
 | Karl E. Weick - 1995 - 252 pages
...reproduces the other. When the artist [see Nisbet, 1962] has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended,...weariness, — he has always the resource to live. . . . [T]he scholar loses no hour which the man lives, (pp. 76-80) Later, Mills (1959) made a similar... | |
 | W. Clark Gilpin - 1996 - 242 pages
...providing the "raw material" of its invention. "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." 54 The "self-trust" of the scholar rested on the conviction, the hope, that invention uncovered the... | |
 | W. Clark Gilpin - 1996 - 248 pages
...providing the "raw material" of its invention. "When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended,...books are a weariness, — he has always the resource fo live."54 The "self-trust" of the scholar rested on the conviction, the hope, that invention uncovered... | |
 | Lee Rust Brown - 1997 - 306 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... | |
 | Browntrout Publishers - 1998 - 129 pages
...joy, all but in vain." — Geoffrey SBt-# ,&. "Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new." ' ..' • "Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary." - Ralli Waldo Emerson . Iri - , ." -T. s 'Coffee should be black as Hell. strong as death, and sweet... | |
 | Robert Coles - 1986 - 332 pages
...Emerson, in another age, who suggested that "character is higher than intellect," and who observed that "a great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think." 5 In his long lyric poem Paterson, William Carlos Williams constantly distinguishes between the intellect... | |
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