A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now... Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle - Página 27por Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 474 páginas
...stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself: what then? ... A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with the shadow on the wall. Speak what... | |
| John Horne - 1904 - 172 páginas
...and final death and disappearance." — Carlyle. is Consistency "A foolish consistency is a Virtue? the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to - morrow speak what to... | |
| 156 páginas
...judgments, even if it seems that we contradict ourselves. So what, Emerson seems to say: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do — Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speaks what... | |
| Robert Fogelin - 2003 - 226 páginas
...then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot. I will spue thee out of my mouth. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance" Do I contradict myself? Very well... | |
| Frater Da'Neos - 2003 - 162 páginas
...be damned. At least I have Emerson to come to my defense, in his essay "Self -Reliance": A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what... | |
| Mary Lutyens - 2003 - 266 páginas
...all his clothes to someone in need. He once gave away his only overcoat. Emerson has said, 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.' If in nothing else, the inconsistencies in K's character would make... | |
| Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 páginas
...leaving or reliefor quitting or release or shunning or allowing or deliverance, which is freedom as in "Leave your theory as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee"), together further with something he means by trusting or suffering (as in the image of the traveler... | |
| Ronda Chervin, Lois August Janis - 2003 - 164 páginas
...Here are some lines from those who doubt that logic is the only way to steer toward truth: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. " Emerson (1803-1 882) "No generalization is wholly true, not even this one. Oliver Wendell Holmes,... | |
| John Weeks - 2004 - 184 páginas
...behavior will bring operations grinding to a halt, Emerson's words were never more true: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Ambiguity and inconsistency are the manager's hammer and sickle. There is an important ambiguity inherent... | |
| Laura Dassow Walls - 2003 - 302 páginas
..."Whim." Anticipating objections, he deflates them with one of his best-known oneliners: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."40 And yet, how inconsistent is Emerson, really? Perhaps there are no inconsistencies if the... | |
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