Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes... Essays - Page 63by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
| Philipp Mehne - 2008 - 234 pages
...soul becomes; for, that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputations to shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside." (CW 2, 40). Die Parallelen zu Fichtes Angriffen auf das humanistische Bildungsideal, das in Fichtes... | |
| Lee Oser - 2007 - 206 pages
...the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside." Poirier marches Emerson into poststructuralist territory in order to deny the soul itself, which is... | |
| John T. Lysaker - 2008 - 244 pages
...self-trust altogether, Emerson simply cautions us not to overly valorize the act of obedience: "To speak of reliance, is a poor external way of speaking. Speak...rather of that which relies, because it works and is" (CW2, 40). This second line is oblique. The temptation is to read "that which relies, because it works... | |
| John T. Lysaker - 2008 - 244 pages
...145). The crisis broached here concerns the unfolding of nature that is our own unfolding, one that "confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside" (CW2, 40). Yet rather than forgo self-trust altogether, Emerson simply cautions us not to overly valorize... | |
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