 If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.  Works - Page 15by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...mind, and his involuntary perceptions. And to his involuntary perceptions he knows a perfect respect is due. He may err in the expression of them, but...things are so, like day and night, not to be disputed. All my willful actions and acquisitions are but roving; — the most trivial reverie, the faintest... | |
 | Frederick Clarke Prescott - 1922 - 350 pages
...at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct. . . . Every man discriminates between the voluntary acts...his involuntary perceptions a perfect faith is due. . . . My wilful actions and acquisitions are but roving; — the idlest reverie, the faintest native... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 pages
...causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discerns between the voluntary acts of his mind and his involuntary...actions and acquisitions are but roving ; the idlest reverie, the faintest native emotion command my curiosity and respect. Thoughtless people contradict... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discerns between the voluntary acts of his mind and his involuntary...actions and acquisitions are but roving ; the idlest reverie, the faintest native emotion command my curiosity and respect. Thoughtless people contradict... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discriminates between the voluntary...native emotion, command my curiosity and respect. Thoughtless people contradict as readily the statements of perceptions as of opinions, or rather much... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can ppers. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed...this sermon there was also one of our club who, being reverie, the faintest native emotion, command my curiosity and respect. Thoughtless people contradict... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discriminates between the voluntary...actions and acquisitions are but roving; — the idlest reverie, the faintest native emotion, command my curiosity and respect. Thoughtless people contradict... | |
 | Richard Manley Blau - 1979 - 232 pages
...its activity. When we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. ...Every man discriminates between the voluntary acts...his involuntary perceptions a perfect faith is due." (Selections, p. 156) The narrator of Pierre would beg to differ. He has learned that that "lap of immense... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discriminates between the voluntary...actions and acquisitions are but roving; — the idlest reverie, the faintest native emotion, command my curiosity and respect. Thoughtless people contradict... | |
 | Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - 1988 - 300 pages
...pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discriminates between the voluntary...his involuntary perceptions a perfect faith is due. 50 To say that Emerson owed his doctrine of self-reliance exclusively to the Quakers would be to disregard... | |
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