 I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.  Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 116by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Gordon C. F. Bearn - 1997 - 304 pages
...not from below.34 As part of his reply he exclaimed, "I would write on the lintels of the door post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but I cannot spend the day in explanation."35 Just as in Kant, there cannot be an explanation of autonomy.36... | |
 | Richard G. Geldard - 1999 - 200 pages
...have some edge to it, else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines....last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Here is Emerson at his very best: unsentimental, even shocking, but always right. Others have pointed... | |
 | Jim Sanderson - 1998 - 148 pages
...The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pulses and whines. I shun father and mother and wife and...would write on the lintels of the doorpost, Whim." I'm not sure if I got these slogans from Emerson or from Reebok athletic shoe commercials. Emerson... | |
 | Judith N. Shklar - 1998 - 232 pages
...therefore, given the danger, have to offer reasons for refusing any association or acts of convention. "I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me." Why should he be generous to the needy? "Are they my poor?" He will go to prison for a cause that is... | |
 | Joanne Dobson - 1998 - 300 pages
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 | Cary Wolfe - 1998 - 212 pages
...only to itself, above all compromise, beyond all cooperation. This is the Emerson who calls on us to "shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me," who insists that "When the good is near you . . . you shall not discern the footprints of any other;... | |
 | Tyler T. Roberts - 1998 - 245 pages
...the future as "steps, but without a path" (1995: 8). Elsewhere he invokes a passage from Emerson: "l shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. l would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. l hope it is somewhat better than whim at last,... | |
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