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
| 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... | |
| Richard P. Horwitz - 2001 - 420 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... | |
| Marta Dvořák - 2001 - 288 pages
...superior to art, for when the artist "has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints... and books are a weariness, he has always the resource to live" (15). Life and art, the world and the word, strive ceaselessly for preeminence in Buckler's works.... | |
| George Kateb - 2002 - 278 pages
...60) To be sure, in the same essay Emerson goes the other way: Character is higher than intellect ... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong...think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on the elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking... | |
| Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 pages
...Transcendentalism stand in the service of social reform. To Emerson, the scholar ought to go where the heart leads: "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." It was Emerson's refusal to be... | |
| Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 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... | |
| Paul Scott Derrick, Paul Scott - 2003 - 162 pages
...( hnraeter is higher ilian intellect I muling is ine lunciion. Living is Ine lunoiionary. I he BHUB retreats to its source. A great soul will be strong...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... | |
| Philip Cafaro - 2010 - 288 pages
...all. "The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power." And again: "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." 14 In current terms, "The American... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 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... | |
| Roberto Birindelli - 2005 - 228 pages
...20-21. LA CERCA DI HERZOG1 When thè urtisi has exhausted his materìa/s, when thè fancy no ìonger paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness, - he has ahtiays thè resource to live. RW Emerson, «The American Scholar> // sacco di Versaìlles II giorno... | |
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