 Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.  Essays. 1901 - Page 47by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901Full view - About this book
 | Dean Keith Simonton - 1994 - 518 pages
...today. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. And Walt Whitman proclaimed in his "Song of Myself": Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict... | |
 | Lois Kerr - 1996 - 260 pages
...The Analects What the sages say about standing up to the crowd Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Essays: Self Reliance For how many things, which for our own sake we should never... | |
 | Daryl Bernstein, Joe Hammond - 1996 - 228 pages
...asked, "But is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates . . . and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." Emerson, the great advocate of self-reliance, preached the importance of having courage in the face... | |
 | Andrew J. Davis - 1996 - 292 pages
...said to-day. Ah ! so you shall be sure to be misunderstood. Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and Fulton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great, is to be misunderstood."... | |
 | Eduardo Cadava - 1997 - 276 pages
...to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood" (W, 2: 57-58). 104. I am indebted in my formulation here to Jacques Derrida's analysis of the issues... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. 3328 Essays It is so bad, then, to be misunderstood? on 1840-1893 These things shall be! A loftier race...knowledge in their eyes. SYMONS Arthur 1865-1945 11 3329 Essays To fill the hour - that is happiness. 3330 Essays The years teach much which the days never... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 pages
...to-day. — "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood." — Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,...sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being, as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere. Nor... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pages
...24 Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and (esus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton,...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. Essays (1841) 'Self-Reliance* 25 To till the hour— that is happiness. Essays. Second Series ( 1 844!... | |
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