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" never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your emotion. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity: yet... "
The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 22
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 59 pages
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The Good Life

Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your...
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Transcendentalism: A Reader

Joel Myerson - 2000 - 751 pages
...that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even...past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and hive ever in a new day. Trust your emotion. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the...
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William James's "Springs of Delight": The Return to Life

Phil Oliver - 2001 - 296 pages
...subjectivity, of celebrated delights, and of life endlessly reclaimed. I Taking Subjectivity Seriously Bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Emerson, Self-Reliance Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall...
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Above Time: Emerson's and Thoreau's Temporal Revolutions

James Robert Guthrie - 2001 - 276 pages
...that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your...
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Emerson and Self-reliance

George Kateb - 2002 - 278 pages
...He goes so far in his concessions to popular religiousness as to say in "Self-Reliance" itself that: In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...Deity: yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory,...
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Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-made Man

Garry Wills - 2002 - 644 pages
...today's market, is the sole aim of America's moral monsters. That is why Emerson trumpets the need to “bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present and live ever in a new day - . - a true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.” That is the spirit...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Life, Writings, and Philosophy

George Willis Cooke - 2003 - 408 pages
...own words, and that they permit the soul to speak out its own deep sentiments of affection and trust. “In your metaphysics you have denied personality...Deity; yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color.” 8 The theory is...
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The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 284 pages
...memory, but to bring the past forjudgment into the thousandeyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to...Deity, yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory,...
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Essays Series 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 pages
...that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your...
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Compensation and Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 pages
...that public placc? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your...
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