 We are stung by the desire for new thought ; but when we receive a new thought it is only the old thought with a new face, and though we make it our own we instantly crave another ; we are not. really enriched. For the truth was in us before it was reflected...  Essays: First Series - Página 310por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 333 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | John Davys Beresford - 1912 - 504 páginas
...mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both. . . . He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept...party he meets, — most likely his father's. . . . He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from all moorings, and afloat. He will... | |
 | John Davys Beresford - 1912 - 430 páginas
... LIBRARY or THE I. A CANDIDATE FOR TRUTH " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both. . . . He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
 | James Jackson Putnam - 1915 - 204 páginas
...consists in an eternal seeking, a never-ending attempt to find ever new and richer meanings in life. "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please, — you can never have both." The powerful thinker, Lessing, whose " Nathan der Weise " has stimulated speculation in so many minds,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 páginas
...Art, in the hope that in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopedia, the net value of all the theories at which the world...party he meets, — most likely, his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - 1982 - 782 páginas
...felt, not observed. But to do so means applying oneself to the task daily. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: "God offers to every mind Its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both. " No professional man has the right to prefer his own personal peace to the happiness of mankind; his... | |
 | Merton M. Sealts, Professor Merton M Sealts, Jr. - 1982 - 446 páginas
...Moby-Dick, and the distinctive phrasing of Melville's 1849 letter to Duyckinck about "Emerson's rainbow": 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. He in whom the love... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 páginas
...scholar. He must worship truth, and forego all things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so diat his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God...party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates... | |
 | George N. Marshall - 1988 - 260 páginas
...individuals: Every human being has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, you cannot have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates....party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity and reputation; but he shuts the door on truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates... | |
 | George Monteiro - 1988 - 196 páginas
...his labor (and in the poem's as well), the farmer-poet illustrates Emerson's meaning when he wrote: "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates."6 We do not know for certain in the end whether Frost's "fact" is "true poetry, and the... | |
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