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... Plato ... 252 Originality of Plato ... 253 Universality of Plato .. 254 Plato's Eclecticism .. 254 Plato's Central Doctrine . 255 Defects in Plato .... 256 Plato summed up ... 258 Swedenborg the Mystic . On Mysticism ..... Emanuel ...
... Plato ... 252 Originality of Plato ... 253 Universality of Plato .. 254 Plato's Eclecticism .. 254 Plato's Central Doctrine . 255 Defects in Plato .... 256 Plato summed up ... 258 Swedenborg the Mystic . On Mysticism ..... Emanuel ...
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... Plato ; Dante , and Shakespeare , and Milton . It is not well to speak with perfect confidence of the place which any man of our own age will hold in the judgment of after - ages . Yet we think that it will 16 EMERSON .
... Plato ; Dante , and Shakespeare , and Milton . It is not well to speak with perfect confidence of the place which any man of our own age will hold in the judgment of after - ages . Yet we think that it will 16 EMERSON .
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... Plato , even though the English language , like the Greek , should have become what we foolishly call a dead tongue . We pro- pose , in such brief space as is allotted to us , to present some estimate of the man and of his works . II ...
... Plato , even though the English language , like the Greek , should have become what we foolishly call a dead tongue . We pro- pose , in such brief space as is allotted to us , to present some estimate of the man and of his works . II ...
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... book that , when he inquired in a New York hotel for ' Boots , ' he had been shown across the street , and had found Mungo in his own house , dining on roast turkey . " He talked of books . Plato he does not 56 EMERSON .
... book that , when he inquired in a New York hotel for ' Boots , ' he had been shown across the street , and had found Mungo in his own house , dining on roast turkey . " He talked of books . Plato he does not 56 EMERSON .
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Philosopher and Poet Alfred Hudson Guernsey. " He talked of books . Plato he does not read , and he despised Socrates ; and , when pressed , persisted in making Mirabeau a hero . Gibbon he called ' the splen- did bridge from the old ...
Philosopher and Poet Alfred Hudson Guernsey. " He talked of books . Plato he does not read , and he despised Socrates ; and , when pressed , persisted in making Mirabeau a hero . Gibbon he called ' the splen- did bridge from the old ...
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Page 172 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Page 174 - Trust thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you ; the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Page 94 - THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent.
Page 309 - If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.
Page 153 - We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.
Page 100 - 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?
Page 120 - Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All. But beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty, and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must stand as a part, and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.
Page 159 - Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences, which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
Page 118 - When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America; — before it, the beach lined with savages, fleeing out of all their huts of cane; the sea behind; and the purple mountains of the Indian Archipelago around, can we separate the man from the living picture? Does not the New World clothe his form with her palm-groves and savannahs as fit drapery?
Page 175 - Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.