| Education - 1925 - 666 pages
...men's transcripts of their reading."50 Though action with a scholar may be subordinate it is essential. "A great soul will be strong to live as well as strong to think."51 "The true scholar grudges every opportunity for action passed by as a loss of power. It is... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1926 - 412 pages
...has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source....think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source....think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosophy - 1983 - 1196 pages
...has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source....think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking... | |
| Stanley Cavell - Literary Collections - 1990 - 207 pages
...together: Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. ... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong...think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking... | |
| Lee Rust Brown - History - 1997 - 306 pages
...has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source....think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking... | |
| Robert Coles - Family & Relationships - 1986 - 332 pages
...Emerson, in another age, who suggested that "character is higher than intellect," and who observed that "a great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think." 5 In his long lyric poem Paterson, William Carlos Williams constantly distinguishes between the intellect... | |
| Robert Coles - Family & Relationships - 1986 - 332 pages
...Emerson, in another age, who suggested that "character is higher than intellect," and who observed that "a great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think."5 In his long lyric poem Paterson, William Carlos Williams constantly distinguishes between... | |
| Richard P. Horwitz - History - 2001 - 420 pages
...has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source....think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking... | |
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