| George Kateb - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 278 pages
...60) To be sure, in the same essay Emerson goes the other way: Character is higher than intellect ... 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 the elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking... | |
| Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - Philosophy - 2003 - 300 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... | |
| Kenneth Sacks - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 426 pages
...leads: "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 to think." It was Emerson's refusal to be more specific that so annoyed his foes and disappointed his friends.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - Devotional calendars - 2004 - 396 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... | |
| Paul Scott Derrick, Paul Scott - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 162 pages
...( hnraeter is higher ilian intellect I muling is ine lunciion. Living is Ine lunoiionary. I he BHUB retreats to its source. A great soul will be 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... | |
| Philip Cafaro - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 288 pages
...again: "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 to think." 14 In current terms, "The American Scholar" treats "virtue ethics": that half of ethics that concerns... | |
| David Carr - Art - 2006 - 180 pages
...character; it is a world where "Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source....be strong to live, as well as strong to think.""' On what is the heroic character founded? "Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, Night and her stars.... | |
| Philip Cafaro - Philosophy - 2006 - 289 pages
...again: "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 to think." 14 In current terms, "The American Scholar" treats "virtue ethics": that half of ethics that concerns... | |
| Kenneth S. Sacks - Political Science - 2008 - 228 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... | |
| Harriet Martineau - Slavery - 1838 - 310 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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