Thought and Its Expression: A Course in Thinking and Writing for College StudentsHarcourt, Brace, 1928 - 260 páginas |
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American argument Arthur Schopenhauer artist believe century civilization closed mind conviction creative criticism democracy discussion doctrine duck-back essay excerpt expression fact feel force genius habit Harper's Magazine heart Hebraism Hebraism and Hellenism Hellenism Henry Seidel Canby hope human ideal ideas impulse individual instinct intellectual intelligence intolerance Irving Babbitt James Harvey Robinson judgment liberty literary literature live man's mankind Matthew Arnold means mental moral nation nature ness never open mind open-mindedness opinion ourselves past Paul Elmer perfect permission philosophy poet political present principles Professor progress publishers Puritan Ralph Adams Cram Ralph Waldo Emerson reasons religion Reprinted reverie revolution Rousseau sense sieve reader social society soul sponge reader Stuart Sherman taste things thinkers thinking thought tion tolerance true truth University virtue whole William Ralph Inge wisdom write York
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Página 77 - Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Página 180 - ... the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave ; that all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins — all these things, if not quite beyond...
Página 195 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Página 180 - That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms...
Página 189 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Página 78 - Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Página 30 - Of course, there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man. History and exact science he must learn by laborious reading. Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office, — to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create ; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to then: hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.
Página 76 - I READ the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius. Speak your...
Página 117 - But, indeed, the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
Página 111 - But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race, posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.