 we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes,—all metaphysics, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm  The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 31by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 59 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 356 pages
...intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but...whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discriminates... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 556 pages
...intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but...whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discriminates... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 568 pages
...intelligence, which makes ns receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beam If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry ink . . the soul that causes, all philosophy is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 120 pages
...intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but...whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discriminates... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...intelligence, which makes us organs of activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but...whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes,— all metaphysics, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.... | |
 | William James - 1898 - 92 pages
...intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams." \Self-Reliance, p. 56.] But it is not necessary to identify the consciousness postulated in the lecture,... | |
 | William James - 1898 - 94 pages
...intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice^ when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves; but allow a passage to its beams." \Self-Relianct T p. 56.] But it is not necessary to identify the conr sciousness postulated in the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but...whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault . Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discriminates... | |
 | George Holmes Howison - 1901 - 440 pages
...intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams.'" All this is in even keeping with Professor James's other sentence, 3 that "we need only suppose the... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its 325 beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy... | |
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