 | Edwin Winfield Bowen - 1908 - 422 pàgines
...sense, is one expression for the universe ; God is the all fair. Truth and goodness and beauty are'but different faces of the same all. But beauty in nature...is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must therefore stand as a part anfl not as yet the highest expression of the final cause of nature." The... | |
 | Arthur Cary Fleshman - 1908 - 344 pàgines
...Arnold—To see things in their beauty is to see things in their truth. Emerson expresses the same fact: "Truth and goodness and beauty are but different faces of the same All." Goethe writes: " Beauty is inexplicable, it is a hovering and glittering shadow, whose outline eludes... | |
 | John Smith Harrison - 1910 - 348 pàgines
...presence. Thus he sums up his account of beauty with the words: "Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth and goodness, and beauty, 1 Complete Works, I., 20-21. are but different faces of the same All." l Such identification is characteristic... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1912 - 696 pàgines
...end. No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in itk largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is...nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and internal beauty and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must stand as a part, and not as... | |
 | Colin McAlpin - 1915 - 460 pàgines
...affectional, sympathetic nature ; it is the song-offering of the heart, baptised with cosmic beauty. " Beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and internal beauty." Thus writes Emerson. And music, it might be added, appears to corroborate the dictum.... | |
 | Colin McAlpin - 1915 - 452 pàgines
...affectional, sympathetic nature; it is the song-offering of the heart, baptised with cosmic beauty. " Beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and internal beauty." Thus writes Emerson. And music, it might be added, appears to corroborate the dictum.... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Gay - 1928 - 276 pàgines
...given why the soul seeks Beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression of the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness,...satisfactory good. It must stand as a part, and not yet as the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature." But more important than such idealistic... | |
 | Kenneth Burke - 1966 - 534 pàgines
...inasmuch as it is an end in itself. But Emerson preserves the design by his concluding decision that "Beauty in nature is not ultimate." It is "the herald of inward and eternal beauty." Nothing could more quickly reveal the terministic resources of the Emersonian dialectic (or, if you... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1971 - 316 pàgines
...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...is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must therefore stand as a part and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.... | |
 | René Wellek - 1977 - 396 pàgines
...incarnation of a thought, and turns to a thought again.« »The world is mind precipitated.« 12. W, i, 24: »God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.« Seite 23 — 24: ». . .the standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms, — the totality... | |
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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 the all-fair. Truth and goodness and beauty 'are but different faces of the same All. 
