A Year with Emerson: A DaybookD.R. Godine, 2003 - 231 psl. Arranged for daily inspiration, wisdom from one of America's great visionary and philosophical minds. "A chief event of life is that day on which we have encountered a mind that startled us." A Year with Emerson is a feast of 365 such days. Known throughout the world for his cogent, epigrammatic writing, admired as the "George Washington of American Literature," his work is even more enriching in bigger doses. Daily almanac entries present the heart of Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas and philosophy. Some were written on the very day in which they appear in the book, some are speculations and musings of the season and the natural world, but all are unfailingly wise, still relevant to our modern times. Emerson's mind ranged across the universe even as he traveled the length and breadth of the United States and Europe. With Emerson as a companion and guide, we meet the ideas and personalities he championed and encountered, from Lincoln to John Muir, from Carlyle to Montaigne, and, of course, the close New England circle of Hawthorne, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and the Alcotts. With company such as this, and the scope of Emerson's vision, you're sure to encounter rich food for thought every day of the year. |
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... conversation , even the highest , there is a certain trick , which may soon be learned by an acute person and then that particular style continued indefinitely . Each man too is a tyrant in tendency , because he would impose his idea on ...
... conversation on my " Representative men , " for instance , I am instantly sensible that there is nothing there for conversation , that the argu- ment is all pinched & illiberal & popular . Only what is private , & yours , & essential ...
... conversation . - Conversation , when it is best , is a series of intoxications . Not Aristotle , not Kant or Hegel , but conversation , is the right metaphysical professor . This is the true school of philosophy , this the college where ...