 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
 | David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 pages
...truly self-reliant opinion (£, 278); and he warns that by failing to abide by our own impressions we "shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another" (£, 259). Moreover, the threat of social obligations or debts is directly absorbed into the figure... | |
 | Garry Wills - 2002 - 644 pages
...interested in, but discovery of truth (the process). Strike out on your own, he says, or "tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...to take with shame our own opinion from another." Nixon has this self -improving mania: the very choice of a framework for his book reflects it. As with... | |
 | M. Scott Peck - 2002 - 328 pages
...discipline and love gave me the eyes to see grace Introduction to the 25th Anniversary Edition Tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance" The most common response I have received to The Road Less... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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