 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
 | F. M. McMurry - 2004 - 208 pages
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 | Jodi O'Brien - 2006 - 586 pages
...good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...take with shame our own opinion from another. There are several important ideas in this passage, but they are not developed by Emerson, only mentioned... | |
 | Naoko Saito - 2005 - 238 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...forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. ("SR," 131-32 in CC, 139) Emerson calls the gleam of light "Intuition," or "Instinct." It symbolizes... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 2005 - 432 pages
...detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, . . . else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...to take with shame our own opinion from another." . . . Language does not help us at this point; rather the Presidential Address delivered before the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 pages
...flexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else tomorrow a stranger will say what we have thought and felt all the time, and we...forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. 2(J"]) Emerson was once caricatured as a "Transparent fc=l Eye-Ball" - quite apt in light of this comment.... | |
 | Lynn Marie Sager - 2005 - 266 pages
...What an extraordinary definition of greatness—to be misunderstood. In the same essay, Emerson wrote: "There is a time in every man's education when he...that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide." Imagine realizing that whenever you feel envy, you are only demonstrating an ignorance of your own... | |
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