...quanta vuole. " Which sounds very much like a famous passage in Emerson (quoted from memory): "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great •I3 Curiositei estheliques, p. 203. '14 Ibid., p. 201. soul has simply nothing to do. Speak what...

...them«. es kommt auf den Leser an — einer seiner typischsten Aussprüche also lautet: »A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do«. Mit den Philosophen scheint Emerson sich überhaupt nicht gut verstanden zu haben, dies muß bekannt...

...of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand...and flee. ^A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little mindp.: adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul...

...stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? . . . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divinesWith consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with...

...of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand...soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern nimsell with his shadow on the wall. SooV ™V "' in hard words apd speak wha,^ to-morrow thinks in...

...of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand...minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and" divinesT With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with...

...great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. — EMERSON. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. — EMERSON. There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free...

...normative implications; a judge should strive at consistency, coherence and integrity. — ' "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Emerson RW. Self Reliance. In: Essays and Other Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1940, p. 152. Note...

...Waldo Emerson's def1ant creed: 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of litde minds, adored by litde statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.' It is no surprise, then, that a man who was perpetually skint throughout his working career should...

...sketched in the preceding two paragraphs. 3. WHEN lS lT REASONABLE TO TOLERATE lNCONSlSTENCY? A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Ralph Waldo Emerson in Essays, "Self- Reliance" (First Series, 1841). Some faults are reprehensible;...