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 - 1884 - 356 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...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... | |
| William Hague - 1884 - 84 pages
..."Self-Reliance" Mr. Emerson puts the central thought of his teaching in a short preceptive sentence, thus: " In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...though they should clothe God with shape and color." This is an apt expression of the interior spirit of that Alexandrian Neo-Platonism, represented by... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 368 pages
...enjoys the lively vigor of his mind and the felicity of his incomparable temper. — GKbbon. 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... | |
| James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1886 - 806 pages
...if you ask me how I dare say so, I am the most helpless of mortal men." He tells them : " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...and philosophers, and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1886 - 436 pages
...consistency," can not be doubted. On this point, a free-minded, independent writer once remarked: " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...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... | |
| William Hague - 1888 - 386 pages
...Self-Reliance " Mr. Emerson puts the central thought of his teaching in a short preceptive sentence, thus : "In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...though they should clothe God with shape and color." This is an apt expression of the interior spirit of that Alexandrian Neo-Platonism represented by several... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 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 colour. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency... | |
| John Rogers Rees - 1889 - 290 pages
...conduct in this direction was certoinly a brilliant commentary on the words of Emerson : "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and adds : " He was conscious of his own infirmity of temper, and told me he saw few persons, because he... | |
| Lillian Kupfer - 1890 - 184 pages
...pre sump'tu ous vi'ti a' tion fra i' tion ri dic' u lous viz' ier (yer) XXIV.—DICTATION. 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. If you would be a man, speak what you think to-day in words as... | |
| James Thomson - 1892 - 300 pages
...emotions. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the deity : yet when the devout emotions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though...Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee." " Men ask of the immortality of the soul, and the employments of heaven, and so forth. They even dream... | |
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