 ... counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect,...  Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.]. - Page 195by Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue; when...All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey. Of this pure nature every man is... | |
 | Barbara MacKinnon - 1985 - 710 pages
...through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue; when it flows through his affection, it is love. . . . . . . We are wiser than we know. If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely,... | |
 | Antonio T. De Nicolás, Saint Ignatius (of Loyola) - 1986 - 422 pages
...background and foreground— of this hermeneutical study. Imagining: Primary Text, Primary Technology The blindness of the intellect begins when it would...will begins when the individual would be something of itself. — Emerson The Spaniards, the Spaniards, they will too much! — Nietzsche1 OLLOWING ORTEGA'S... | |
 | Marsha Sinetar - 1988 - 180 pages
...through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect it is genius. When it breathes through his will it is virtue. When it flows through his affection it is love. Ralph Waldo Emerson Preface I am unusually fortunate to have such consistent, professional and competent... | |
 | Sy Safransky - 1990 - 174 pages
...through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue; when it flows through his affection, it is love. — Ralph Waldo Emerson The Over-Soul Two things come to mind that are euphoric for me. One is the... | |
 | 1917 - 598 pages
...through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue ; when it flows through his affection, it is love. — Emerson. EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS Written to Students and Patients by the Society of Silent Unity.... | |
 | Henry H. Brown - 1996 - 114 pages
...through his actions, would make our knees to bend. When it breathes through his intellect it is genius; when it breathes through his will it is virtue; when it flows through his affections it is love." (Oversoul.) "We lie in the lap of an immense intelligence, which makes us receivers... | |
 | Jonathan Levin - 1999 - 244 pages
...searching verbal maneuvering. The "blindness of the intellect begins," Emerson comments in "The OverSoul," "when it would be something of itself. The weakness...when the individual would be something of himself" (EL 387). Emerson rejects a conception of the self as isolated from its world. The strength of the... | |
 | John P. Miller - 2000 - 188 pages
...59). Emerson (1990) states: When the Universal Soul breathes through a man's intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue; when it flows through his affection, it is love. (p. 60) How important the soul was to Emerson can be seen in his words that the solution to our difficulties... | |
 | Marlies Kronegger - 2000 - 508 pages
...not possessed and that cannot be possessed. ... When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue; when it flows through his affection, it is love.5 Similarly, Sullivan would write, "every function is neither more nor less than a subdivision... | |
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