 It is not words only that are emblematic; it is things which are emblematic. Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting...  Orations, Lectures and Essays - Page 27by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Penny Cousineau-Levine - 2003 - 356 pages
...some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of mind, and that state of mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture. Ralph Waldo EMERSON referenceless world i do take refuge in bpNICOL Martyrology CHAPTER TWO The Missing... | |
 | Judith H. O'Toole - 2005 - 172 pages
...things which are emblematic. Kvery natural tact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...picture. An enraged man is a lion, a cunning man is ;t fox, a firm man is a rock, a learned man is a torch. A lamb is innocence; a snake is subtle spite;... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2006 - 98 pages
...different faces of the same All. Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...presenting that natural appearance as its picture. Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour, and is not reminded of the flux of all things? Throw a... | |
 | Martin Scofield - 2006 - 239 pages
...illustrates but also challenges Emerson's claim that 'Every natural fact is also a spiritual fact . . . A lamb is innocence, a snake is subtle spite, flowers express to us the delicate affections.'11 Emerson's symbolism is morally clear-cut, but 'Rappaccini's Daughter', with its re-reading... | |
 | Michael Awkward - 2007 - 284 pages
...in Emerson's formulation, "every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...presenting that natural appearance as its picture" (200). Romantic heartbreak shakes Green's persona of a belief in such correspondence; if, in its title,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2007 - 525 pages
...in part Emerson's Nature: "Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...presenting that natural appearance as its picture." 101 Unidentified. 102 Emerson wrote in his Divinity School Address: "It is already beginning to indicate... | |
 | Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 pages
...between the inner and outer worlds, the me and the not me. As he goes on to observe: "Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...presenting that natural appearance as its picture." 123 This is a concept that Neumann also expresses when he observes that, "The psychic world of images... | |
 | Mark Sagoff - 2007
...believed that "all spiritual facts are represented by natural symbols." Emerson wrote, "Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...presenting that natural appearance as its picture." This naive correspondence theory of truth is worse than solipsistic because the individual disappears... | |
 | Elizabeth R. Epperly - 2007 - 241 pages
...figured in language, showing how intimately word images correspond to natural images: 'Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...described by presenting that natural appearance as a picture' (15). Nature exists to inspire and to liberate, to bring rest and to urge mortals beyond... | |
 | Christian Schäfer - 2007 - 42 pages
...even suggests that natural facts are the only appropriate means to express thoughts: "Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...the mind can only be described by presenting that appearance as its picture" (18). Our main instrument to understanding is analogy because "man is an... | |
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