 | Liah Greenfeld - 1992 - 600 pages
...better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit . . . The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul....although in almost all men, obstructed, and as yet unborn ... it is ... not the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man.129... | |
 | John Henry Newman, George P. Landow, Juan Enrique Newman (Beato), Frank Miller Turner, Martha McMackin Garland, Sara Castro-Klaren - 1996 - 403 pages
...an American audience, "Books are the best things well used; abused, among the worst. . . . The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man contains within him." 14 Working 13. Newman, The Idea of a University, ed. IT Ker, pp. 234, 231 . 14.... | |
 | John Jay Chapman - 1998 - 244 pages
...What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire... . 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. . . . Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over-influence.... | |
 | Richard P. Horwitz - 2001 - 420 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... | |
 | Cristina Kirklighter - 2002 - 176 pages
...this "Man Thinking" as one who draws closer to another element of the essay, the search for truth: The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth,...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... | |
 | Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 pages
...system. The one thing in the world of value, is, the active soul, — the soul, free, sovereign, active. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains...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... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 2003 - 302 pages
...creative art — not just marrying science and poetry, but merging the two in a new, prophetic power: "The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates. In this action, it is genius. . . . Genius creates. To create, — to create, — is the proof of a divine presence." The distance... | |
 | Philip Cafaro - 2010 - 288 pages
...behoof?" Emerson asks. And following Kant, he answers anthropocentrically, yet stirringly: "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."6 Since Descartes, a main project of modern philosophy has been to develop... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 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... | |
 | Roger Berkowitz - 2005 - 246 pages
...meditation on Heidegger's texts from which it flows. Preface Notes 1. "The one thing of value in the world is the active soul. This every man is entitled to;...The soul active sees absolute truth and utters truth and creates." Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Brooks Atkinson... | |
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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... 
