...consciously to seek out the company of other men who want things to be different. Again to quote Emerson: "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both." I hope this book offers men and mensensitive women the encouragement to choose truth over repose. At...

...we can discern an echo of Lessing's voice in Emerson's own choice to remain an apprentice to truth: 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...

...human drive for knowledge that illustrates how a natural human motivation can be affected by lethargy: God offers to every mind its choice between truth...rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door to truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from all moorings, and...

...anticipations of the complex (and much misunderstood) idea of will to power. Schopenhauer and Wagner God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. Emerson, "Intellect" Although Nietzsche had decided to study classical philology, pressure from his...

...RD37LWS6G4S 1997 345.42'0288-dc21 97-8354 CIP AC ISBN O-ilS-17108-3 ihbk) ISBN 0-H5-17KW-1 "God often, to every mind its choice between truth and repose....Take which you please — you can never have both." Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Intellect" "For a clever man, nothing is easier than to rind arguments that will...

...them catch and hang your own experiences, till what was once his thought has become your character. "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose. Take which you please; you can never have both." "Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will." "It is impossible for a man to be cheated...

...virtues have not been discovered. 3337 A friend may well be reckoned to be a masterpiece of nature. 3338 ghts; Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: 3339 A good indignation brings out all one's powers. 3311 3340 Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices....

...deceive one's self; for what we wish, we readily believe. Demosthenes Athenian orator Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both. But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has...

...which the mind vibrates like a pendulum; one, the desire of Truth; the other, the desire of Repose. He in whom the love of Repose predominates, will accept the first creed he meets, Arianism, Calvinism, Socinianism; he gets rest and reputation; but he shuts the door of Truth....

...thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified." °* Confucius, The Great Learning (verses 4-5) "God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take that which you please — you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He...