Essays: First SeriesD. McKay, 1888 - 396 pàgines |
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Pàgina 39
... wisdom these facts or questions of time , serve them . Facts encumber them , tyrannize over them , and make the men of routine , the men of sense , in whom a literal obedience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by which ...
... wisdom these facts or questions of time , serve them . Facts encumber them , tyrannize over them , and make the men of routine , the men of sense , in whom a literal obedience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by which ...
Pàgina 64
... wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but bring the past for judgment into the thou- sand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . Trust your emotion . In your metaphysics you have ...
... wisdom never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but bring the past for judgment into the thou- sand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . Trust your emotion . In your metaphysics you have ...
Pàgina 72
... wisdom as Intuition , whilst all later teach- ings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not ...
... wisdom as Intuition , whilst all later teach- ings are tuitions . In that deep force , the last fact behind which analysis cannot go , all things find their common origin . For the sense of being which in calm hours rises , we know not ...
Pàgina 74
... wisdom , then old things pass away , -means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , -one thing as much as another . All things ...
... wisdom , then old things pass away , -means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , -one thing as much as another . All things ...
Pàgina 90
... wisdom and virtue , and visits cities and men like a sovereign , and not like an interloper or a valet . I have no churlish objection to the circum- navigation of the globe , for the purposes of art , of study , and benevolence , so ...
... wisdom and virtue , and visits cities and men like a sovereign , and not like an interloper or a valet . I have no churlish objection to the circum- navigation of the globe , for the purposes of art , of study , and benevolence , so ...
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Pàgina 64 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Pàgina 52 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Pàgina 52 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Pàgina 75 - These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are ; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose ; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
Pàgina 128 - Some damning circumstance always transpires. The laws and substances of nature water, snow, wind, gravitation - become penalties to the thief. On the other hand, the law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.
Pàgina 78 - Why, then, do we prate of self-reliance ? Inasmuch as the soul is present, there will be power not confident but agent. To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking. Speak rather of that which relies, because it works and is.
Pàgina 121 - As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him. The stag in the fable admired his horns and blamed his feet, but when the hunter came, his feet saved him, and afterwards, caught in the thicket, his horns destroyed him.
Pàgina 60 - What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
Pàgina 53 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Pàgina 81 - O father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto. Henceforward I am the truth's. Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law.