A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Essays: First Series - Page 64by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. lu your metaphysics you have denied personality to the...statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...the past for jndgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysies you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when...statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...life, though they should clothe God with shape and color.1 Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency... | |
| Joseph Cook - 1877 - 370 pages
...sentence so descriptive of his position as a fixed individualist and a wavering pantheist as this : — " In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...Joseph his coat, in the hand of the harlot, and flee " (EMEBSON, Essays, vol. ip £0). Whoever would come to the point of view from which all Emerson's... | |
| Joseph Cook - 1877 - 360 pages
...sentence so descriptive of his position as a fixed individualist and a wavering pantheist as this : — " In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...your theory, as Joseph his coat, in the hand of the har'ot, and flee " (EMERSON, Essays, vol. ip 50). Whoever would come to the point of view from which... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1877 - 180 pages
...memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousandeyed presents, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics, you have denied personality to...with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph did his coat in the house of the harlot, and flee. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little... | |
| Joseph Cook - 1877 - 138 pages
...sentence so descriptive of his position as a fixed individualist and a wavering pantheist as this : — " In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...life, though they should clothe God with shape and colour. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat, in the hand of the harlot, and nee."f Whoever would... | |
| James De Mille - 1878 - 584 pages
...A general example of this quality may be found in the following passage from Emerson : " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out... | |
| William Mackintire Salter - 1879 - 64 pages
...conception. We may not indeed deny our impulses or refuse to allow the natural forms which they create. " In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...though they should clothe God with shape and color."* Yet we may not make of this temporary result of impulse a permanent element in our creed; the intellect... | |
| Joseph Cook - 1879 - 178 pages
...sentence so descriptive of his position as a fixed individualist and a wavering pantheist as this : — " In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...life, though they should clothe God with shape and colour. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and tiee."2 Whoever would... | |
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