 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 334 páginas
...thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom, of that inspiration of man which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism. We lie in the lup of immense intelligence, which makes us organs of activity and receivers of its truth. When we... | |
 | William James - 1898 - 92 páginas
...naturally with that whole tendency of thought known as transcendentalism. Emerson, for example, writes : " We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes...nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams." [Self-Reliance, p. 56.] But it is not necessary to identify the consciousness postulated in the lecture,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 144 páginas
...thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom, of that inspiration of man which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism....in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1900 - 244 páginas
...that a portion of the cosmic soul is implanted in each child at birth, and quotes Emerson's remark — "We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which...receivers of its truth, and organs of its activity." Mr. Hall, in his recent book "Man, the Microcosm," holds that the ego or personality of a man is compounded... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 páginas
...fountain of action and of thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom and 320 which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism....do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its 325 beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy... | |
 | George Holmes Howison - 1901 - 442 páginas
...naturally with the whole tendency of thought known as transcendentalism. Emerson, for example, writes: ' We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes...of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams.'" All this is in even keeping with Professor James's other sentence, 8 that "we need only suppose the... | |
 | Herbert Cushing Tolman - 1902 - 96 páginas
...do we come From God, Who is our home." It is a philosophical truth, that, "we lie in the lap of an immense intelligence which makes us receivers of its...truth, we do nothing of ourselves but allow a passage of its beams." As applied to life, we should think of the Holy City not merely as a place, where, if... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 páginas
...thought. Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom, of that inspiration of man which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism....in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us organs of its activity and receivers of its truth. When we discern justice, when we discern truth,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 458 páginas
...attitude receptive of the great Self, the Over. Soul, which befits the worshipping human being : — " We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes...nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams." CONSIDERATIONS BY THE WAY Among the persons who attended Mr. Emerson's courses of lectures were many... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 448 páginas
...attitude receptive of the great Self, the OverSoul, which befits the worshipping human being : — " We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes...nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams." CONSIDERATIONS BY THE WAY Among the persons who attended Mr. Emerson's courses of lectures were many... | |
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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. 
