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" What is the right use? What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one... "
Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Page 86
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 383 pages
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Works, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 392 pages
...warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul....within him, although in almost all men obstructed, and an yet unborn. The soul active sees absolute truth and utters truth, or creates. In this action it...
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Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 674 pages
...warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul....every man contains within him. although in almost nil men obstructed, and as yet unborn. The soul active sees absolute truth and utters truth, or creates....
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Emerson's Complete Works: Nature, addresses and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 pages
.... The one thing in the world, of • ; value, is the aetive soul. This every man is en- 1 [ titled to ; this every man contains within him, although in almost all men obstrueted, and as yet unborn. The soul aetive sces absolute truth and utters truth, or ereates. In...
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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 398 pages
...warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul....it is genius; not the privilege of here and there a favourite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college,...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Nature, addresses and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 pages
...warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul....the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art,...
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A Library of American Literature...

Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul....the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of...
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A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present ...

Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 pages
...warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul....the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of...
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Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul....is genius ; not the privilege of here and there a favourite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it. is progressive. The book, the college,...
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Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures, Volumes 1-2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1892 - 656 pages
...warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul....the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of...
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The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul....the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of...
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