 It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made that we exist.* That discovery is called the Fall of Man. Ever afterwards we suspect our instruments. We have learned that we do not see directly, but mediately, and that we have...  Works - Page 99by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Cornel West - 1989 - 292 pages
...great essay "Experience" in Essays, Second Series (1844), he affirms this perceptual contextualism. It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery...mediately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their errors. Perhaps these... | |
 | Richard Poirier - 1990 - 390 pages
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 | Bernd Engler - 1991 - 368 pages
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 | Peter Heidtmann - 1991 - 160 pages
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 | Guy L. Rotella - 1991 - 280 pages
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 | Judith Oster - 1994 - 364 pages
...It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem." (W 3:50) " ... we suspect our instruments. We have learned that we...mediately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are. . . . Perhaps these subject lenses have a creative power;... | |
 | Evan Carton - 1992 - 168 pages
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 | Richard Poirier - 1992 - 248 pages
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