...we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without...The way of life is wonderful; it is by abandonment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Circles" I. In the concluding sequence of Chronicle of a Summer, the pioneering...

...we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without...The way of life is wonderful: it is by abandonment" (SW10:486). I locate the mystical element of Nietzsche's thought in the way he writes a certain insatiable...

...ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety ... to do something without knowing how or why . . . Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm....The way of life is wonderful; it is by abandonment. . . . Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this...

...give all they've got, holding nothing back. That's why essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson concludes that "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm....The way of life is wonderful; it is by abandonment." It is difficult to stifle the ardor or dampen the spirits of people who really believe in what they...

...we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without...knowing how or why; in short, to draw a new circle" (EL 414). Our desire to lose effective agency is insatiable because that is the only thing we cannot...

...Emerson's it quotes: Both climax in a quotation. Here is the concluding quotation of Emerson's essay: "'A man,' said Oliver Cromwell, 'never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.'" Very early in SE we find the following: "Who was it who said: 'a man never rises...

...we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without...The way of life is wonderful; it is by abandonment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know of nothing else but miracles.......

...Emerson points to the underside of the will to succeed: The great moments of history are the facilitator of performance through the strength of ideas, as the...Cromwell, "never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going." Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit...

...we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without...knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle. [...] The way of life is wonderful; it is by abandonment."18 16 Dies erklärte er jedenfalls während...

...we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without...Cromwell, "never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going." Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit...