 He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth.  Essays: First Series - Página 307por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 333 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1901
...convulsive, averse to all stagnation. As one of the greatest of nineteenth- century philosophers has said, " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which yon please — you can never have both." This, then, was the age when men were choosing Truth rather... | |
 | 1852
...reed, but bidding him stand firm Though she crush worlds. God offers to every mind, it has been said, its choice between truth and repose. "Take which you...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 303 páginas
...things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
 | 1848
...freedom and. the truthfulness of his thought. His essays are jeplete with passages such as this : — " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you ean never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose... | |
 | 1848
...freedom and the truthfulness of his thought. His essays are replete with passages such as this : — " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
 | 1848
...freedom and the truthfulness of his thought. His essays are replete with passages such as ! this : — " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you ean never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 364 páginas
...things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please,—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 385 páginas
...things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure. in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849
...things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in Whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 261 páginas
...things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
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