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" 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 64
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1891 - 304 pages
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Half truths and the truth, lects. on the origin and development of ...

Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 544 pages
...certainly esteem him the more for saying, " A fool- tency rec., . . ,.-, 11- . ,• i . ommeuded. ish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." * When Spinoza's landlady came to him, asking him to teach her his doctrine, he advised her to be content...
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Half Truths and the Truth: Lectures on the Origin and Development of ...

Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 418 pages
...we certainly esteem him the more for saying, " A fool- tcncy rec• i " . ,1111- • ommeuded. ish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." l When Spinoza's landlady came to him, asking him to teach her his doctrine, he advised her to be content...
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Half Truths and the Truth: Lectures on the Origin and Development of ...

Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 pages
...for saying, " A fool- tcncy rec, . , , . , ,, . , „ , Inconsisish consistency is the hobgoblin oi little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." l When Spinoza's landlady came to him, asking him to teach her his doctrine, he advised her to be content...
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Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends

Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1873 - 860 pages
...spending years of time or chests ol' money— but In spending them off the line of your career. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Tno same correspondence that is between thirst in the stoujacu, and water in the spring, exists between...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Philosopher and Poet

Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 pages
...denied personality to the Deity ; and yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them with heart and life, though they should clothe God with...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has little or nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Philosopher and Poet

Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 pages
...and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flea^, JjtA. foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has little or nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you...
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The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Critical writings

Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...51 — 52. Hence a man must be true to his present conviction, careless of consistency : " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soiil has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Out upon...
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The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Volume 11

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...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again,...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your emotion. 1 In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a j , __ . lY^^ great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on...
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The Brotherhood of Letters

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...
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