 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. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now...  The Monthly magazine - Page 487by Monthly literary register - 1841Full view - About this book
 | Graham Bradshaw, T. G. Bishop, Peter Holbrook - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 980 pages
...of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee" ("Self-Reliance" (1841), Selected Essays, 183). 21. In the present set of essays, for instance, Lars... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 2006 - 98 pages
...belongs to no other time or place, but is the centre of things. Where he is, there is nature. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds., adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the... | |
 | Andrew Epstein - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 376 pages
...truth a falsehood tomorrow, is the root of that "foolish consistency" Emerson famously castigates as the "hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines" (EL, 265). "Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then?" Emerson asks, previewing Whitman's... | |
 | Al Smith - 2007 - 464 pages
...of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think... | |
 | Tom Walsh - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2007 - 200 pages
...of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think... | |
 | Al Smith - 2007 - 464 pages
...of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think... | |
 | Bill Sanders, William Sanders - Computers - 2007 - 74 pages
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 | Brad Castro - 2007 - 102 pages
...perhaps, produces a varied character, not a uniform one. In Self-Reliance, Emerson writes, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." And near the end of Song of Myself, Whitman adds: Do I contradict myself? Very... | |
 | Len Gougeon - Literary Criticism - 2012 - 280 pages
...fear of contradiction leads to a petty concern for consistency at all cost. For Emerson, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." 60 The hero possesses a wisdom that derives from the unconscious, the realm of the "eternal One." "We... | |
 | Ben Witherington - Religion - 2007 - 395 pages
...flagrant immorality.2 It was the great American Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson who said "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Doubtless he was right, but in fact impartiality and fairness to all are not small virtues. All sin... | |
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