 God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,...  Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - 第 269 頁Ralph Waldo Emerson 著 - 1876完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | 1901 - 744 頁
...convulsive, averse to all stagnation. As one of the greatest of nineteenth- century philosophers has said, " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which yon please — you can never have both." This, then, was the age when men were choosing Truth rather... | |
 | 1852 - 576 頁
...reed, but bidding him stand firm Though she crush worlds. God offers to every mind, it has been said, its choice between truth and repose. "Take which you...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 頁
...only the old thought with a new face, and though we make it our own, we instantly crave another ; we are not really enriched. For the truth was in us,...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
 | 1912 - 880 頁
...occupations. The keynote of this volume Is a quotation taken from Emerson's Essay on Intellect which begins, "God offers to every mind Its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both." Jacob is a "candidate for truth," according to Emerson, In that he submits to the "Inconvenience of... | |
 | 1848 - 614 頁
...freedom and. the truthfulness of his thought. His essays are jeplete with passages such as this : — " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you ean never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 頁
...only the old thought with a new face; and though we make it our own, we instantly crave another; we are not really enriched. For the truth was in us,...its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 頁
...few men to be poets, yet every man is a receiver of this descending Holy Ghost, and may well stud y the laws of its influx. Exactly parallel is the whole...its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please,—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the... | |
 | 1848 - 636 頁
...freedom and the truthfulness of his thought. His essays are replete with passages such as this : — " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 頁
...freedom and the truthfulness of his thought. His essays are replete with passages such as ! this : — " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you ean never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 頁
...only the old thought with a new face, and though we make it our own, we instantly crave another; we are not really enriched. For the truth was in us,...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
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