 ... when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.  Complete Works - Page 57by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900Full view - About this book
 | Andrew Epstein - 2006 - 376 pages
...ourselves, from being nonconformists, because we fear being inconsistent with our "original thoughts." "The other terror that scares us from self-trust is...our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them" (EL, 476, 265). A fitting motto for Baraka 's entire career could be Emerson's comment that "with consistency... | |
 | John T. Lysaker - 2008 - 244 pages
...consistency than inner consistency, although the two are intertwined, as Emerson himself notes — "because the eyes of others have no other data for...our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them" (CW2, 33). But the point is not simply one concerning conformity. Habits can be fierce on the one hand... | |
 | 1900 - 700 pages
...man's buff is this game of conformity." " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." " A reverence for our past act or word because the eyes...data for computing our orbit than our past acts." Every page of Emerson is thick with metaphors and not one of them but adds force and clearness. It... | |
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