Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with... The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Page 45by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pagesFull view - About this book
| Susan M. Ryan (Ph. D.) - 2003 - 256 pages
...spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility." Should we fail to achieve this tenacity, "to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...forced to take with shame our own opinion from another" (italics added) (17). Invoking his culture's attention to the ignominy of begging, Emerson presents... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 2003 - 628 pages
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| Keith J. Thomas - 2003 - 312 pages
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| Christoph Blomberg - 2003 - 310 pages
...Menschen, und beschwörend hebt er die Bedeutung dieser Wahrnehmung der eigenen Originalität hervor: „There is a time in every man's education when he...suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, äs his portion; that though the wilde universe is füll of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can... | |
| 2003 - 357 pages
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 284 pages
...good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...own opinion from another. There is a time in every man-s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;... | |
| Stanley Cavell - 2005 - 484 pages
...noted: "Workjs] of genius . . . teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression . . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...to take with shame our own opinion from another." The opening paragraph of Schopenhauer as Educator ends: "The man who does not wish to belong to the... | |
| James Miller - 2004
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