NATURE, ADDRESSES, AND LECTURES |
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The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we , through their eyes . Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition ...
The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we , through their eyes . Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe ? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition ...
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action affections American appear beauty becomes beginning behold believe better body born cause character church comes common difference divine earth exist experience face fact faith fear feel force genius give hands heart heaven hold hope hour human idea individual influence intellect labor land leave less light live look manner matter means mind moral nature never objects once pass perfect persons poet poor present question reason reform relation religion respect rich scholar seems seen sense sentiment serve side society soul speak spirit stand stars things thought tion trade true truth turn understanding universal virtue whilst whole wise wish young
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87 psl. - Books are the best of things, well used ; abused, among the worst. What is the right use ? What is the one end, which all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
92 psl. - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic i what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
86 psl. - As no airpump can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write a book of pure thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.
5 psl. - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face ; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
23 psl. - Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet, and bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling child. Only let his thoughts be of equal scope, and the frame will suit the picture.
31 psl. - ... new imagery ceases to be created, and old words are perverted to stand for things which are not ; a paper currency is employed, when there is no bullion in the vaults.
27 psl. - Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow.
83 psl. - ... things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem. It presently learns that since the dawn of history there has been a constant accumulation and classifying of facts. But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also a law of the human mind?
218 psl. - What is a man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made; a renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good, imitating that great Nature which embosoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, and with every pulsation a new life?
19 psl. - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sun-set and moon-rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.
Bibliografinė informacija
| Pavadinimas | NATURE, ADDRESSES, AND LECTURES |
| Autorius | RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
| Išleista | 1883 |
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