 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
 | Daniel H. Nexon, Iver B. Neumann - 2006 - 262 pages
...Sport- War Intertext DAVID i ONKi Qnidditch . . . is a fictional sport. Al HUS DUMHIEDORI-: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. RAI I'll WAI DO EMERSON IN mis ciiAiMi.RI IXAMINL: IHL RELATIONSHIP of the game of Quidditch to the... | |
 | Andrew Epstein - 2006 - 376 pages
...truth a falsehood tomorrow, is the root of that "foolish consistency" Emerson famously castigates as the "hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines" (EL, 265). "Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then?" Emerson asks, previewing Whitman's... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 2007 - 488 pages
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 | Brad Castro - 2007 - 102 pages
...perhaps, produces a varied character, not a uniform one. In Self-Reliance, Emerson writes, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." And near the end of Song of Myself, Whitman adds: Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict... | |
 | Lionel Trilling - 2007 - 472 pages
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 | Bill Sanders, William Sanders - 2007 - 74 pages
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 | James R. Simmons, Jr - 2007 - 500 pages
...Coupar Angus. 3 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), American essayist, philosopher, and poet. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines" is from the essay "SelfReliance" (Essays, 1841). 4 "mountain dew"] any whiskey, but especially illegally... | |
 | Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 pages
...fear of contradiction leads to a petty concern for consistency at all cost. For Emerson, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." 60 The hero possesses a wisdom that derives from the unconscious, the realm of the "eternal One." "We... | |
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