 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
 | 1909 - 540 pages
...intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but...Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discerns between the voluntary acts of his mind and his involuntary perceptions. And to his... | |
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...intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but...Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discerns between the voluntary acts of his mind and his involuntary perceptions. And to his... | |
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...intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but...Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discerns between the voluntary acts of his mind and his involuntary perceptions. And to his... | |
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...intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but...that causes—all metaphysics, all philosophy is at iault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm. Every man discerns between the voluntary acts... | |
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...from the one, and falls into number and multitude." * In keeping with such an idea Emerson writes: "If we ask 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." 2 TVlan attempting... | |
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...activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a s passage to its beams. If we ask 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... | |
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...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." 3 '" Plato and Platonism," NY, 1891, pp. 149, 150. 2 vin, 43. 3 n, 64. The correspondence between the... | |
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...intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If 20 we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes—all metaphysics, all philosophy... | |
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