 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 - 1921 - 580 pages
...imjapnseintelligence, which makes us organs nf its "and receiversTjf~lTs t ruthJ When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves but allow...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.... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 430 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...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 discerns... | |
 | Frank Aydelotte - 1923 - 450 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... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 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...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 discerns... | |
 | Richard Manley Blau - 1979 - 232 pages
...lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. .. . Every man discriminates between the voluntary acts of his mind and his involuntary perceptions,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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... | |
 | Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - 1988 - 300 pages
...inteffigence, 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... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 1988 - 348 pages
...he did not believe, as Emerson wrote in “Self-Reliance,” that “When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams.” Zenobia speaks for him in her final impassioned accusation of Hollingsworth: “Self, self, self! You... | |
 | Kenneth R. Johnston - 1990 - 454 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... | |
 | Stephen Fredman - 1993 - 196 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 of its beams" (FC, 227). "Today," Duncan says, "in 1979, reading that essay, I find again how Emersonian... | |
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