 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 488 pages
...Rhodora." A good deal of his philosophy comes out in these concluding sentences of the chapter : — " Beauty in its largest and profoundest sense is one...is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must therefore stand as a part and not as yet the highest expression of the final cause of Nature." In the... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 588 pages
...Rhodora. " A good deal of his philosophy comes out in these concluding sentences of the chapter : — "Beauty in its largest and profoundest sense is one...is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must therefore stand as a part and not as yet the highest expression of the final cause of Nature." In this... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 pages
...beauty. This element I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one...and beauty, are but different faces of the same ALL Hut beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty, and is not alone... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1884 - 536 pages
...beauty. This element I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one...and beauty are but different faces of the same All. Again, he says, in that fine strain of rhapsody which forms his essay on the Poet: "God has not made... | |
 | 1884 - 354 pages
...that the object itself does not exist except in the concept." " Beauty," says Emerson in " Nature," " in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression...and beauty are but different faces of the same All." This is but another utterance of that central principle of Hegel's Logic — that the Absolute is all... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 328 pages
...beauty. This element I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one...and goodness and beauty are but different faces of (lie same All. But beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and internal beauty,... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1883 - 610 pages
...visible expression of that harmony which pervades the universe.' Hence, as Emerson has justly observed, ' Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one...nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and external Beauty, and is not alone a solid and satisfactory Good. It may stand as a part, and not as... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1886 - 568 pages
...a moral sentence. The moral law lies at the centre of nature and radiates to the circumference." " Truth and goodness and beauty are but different faces...ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty." " When we come to inquire Whence is matter ? and Whereto ? many truths arise to us out of the recesses... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1886 - 34 pages
...beauty in new forms from which Art springs. " No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Truth and goodness and beauty are but different faces of the same All." Higher than the beauty in Nature, however, is the inward beauty of the soul, which it heralds. Again,... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1889 - 572 pages
...a moral sentence. The moral law lies at the centre of nature and radiates to the circumference." " Truth and goodness and beauty are but different faces...ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty." " When we come to inquire Whence is matter ? and Whereto ? many truths arise to us out of the recesses... | |
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The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is... 
