 In your metaphysies you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot,...  Essays: First series - Page 52by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 343 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lawrence Buell - 2003 - 424 pages
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 | Lawrence Buell - 2004 - 420 pages
...consistency in "Self-Reliance." "In your metaphysics you have denied personality to die Deity: yet when die devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart...Leave your theory as Joseph his coat in the hand of die harlot, and flee" (W 1: 33). Is Emerson here confessing what Cameron submits that he must have... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 2003 - 408 pages
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...judgments, even if it seems that we contradict ourselves. So what, Emerson seems to say: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do — Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speaks what to-morrow thinks in hard words... | |
 | Mary Lutyens - 2003 - 266 pages
...all his clothes to someone in need. He once gave away his only overcoat. Emerson has said, 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.' If in nothing else, the inconsistencies in K's character would make him a great soul. From the time... | |
 | Robert Fogelin - 2003 - 226 pages
...then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot. I will spue thee out of my mouth. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance" Do I contradict myself? Very well then ... I contradict myself;... | |
 | Ronda Chervin, Lois August Janis - 2003 - 164 pages
...Here are some lines from those who doubt that logic is the only way to steer toward truth: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. " Emerson (1803-1 882) "No generalization is wholly true, not even this one. Oliver Wendell Holmes,... | |
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