 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,...  Essays, First Series - 第 312 頁Ralph Waldo Emerson 著 - 1850 - 333 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Gilbert Geis, Ivan Bunn - 1997 - 308 頁
...RD37LWS6G4S 1997 345.42'0288-dc21 97-8354 CIP AC ISBN O-ilS-17108-3 ihbk) ISBN 0-H5-17KW-1 "God often, to every mind its choice between truth and repose....Take which you please — you can never have both." Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Intellect" "For a clever man, nothing is easier than to rind arguments that will... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 頁
...virtues have not been discovered. 3337 A friend may well be reckoned to be a masterpiece of nature. 3338 ghts; Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: 3339 A good indignation brings out all one's powers. 3311 3340 Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.... | |
 | John Jay Chapman - 1998 - 244 頁
...them catch and hang your own experiences, till what was once his thought has become your character. "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose. Take which you please; you can never have both." "Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will." "It is impossible for a man to be cheated... | |
 | Delbert D. Thiessen - 170 頁
...deceive one's self; for what we wish, we readily believe. Demosthenes Athenian orator Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both. But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has... | |
 | Richard G. Geldard - 1999 - 200 頁
...which the mind vibrates like a pendulum; one, the desire of Truth; the other, the desire of Repose. He in whom the love of Repose predominates, will accept the first creed he meets, Arianism, Calvinism, Socinianism; he gets rest and reputation; but he shuts the door of Truth.... | |
 | Thomas B. McMullen, Jr - 1998 - 324 頁
...thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified." °* Confucius, The Great Learning (verses 4-5) "God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take that which you please — you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He... | |
 | Charles Ives - 1962 - 292 頁
...mind— the choice between repose and truth— and God makes the offer. "Take which you please— . . . Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in...first political party he meets— most likely his father's."0 He gets rest, commodity, and reputation. Here is another aspect of art-duality, but it... | |
 | Chaim Stern - 2000 - 388 頁
...before stagnation, the leap of the torrent before the stillness of the swamp. Ralph Waldo Enter son God offers to every mind its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both. Samuel Jolmson All theory is against freedom of will; all experience for it. Thursday Mislmah Even... | |
 | Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.) - 1978 - 1092 頁
...thoughts and public behavior."27 He took from Emerson a consoling thought for his commonplace book; "God offers to every mind its choice between truth...repose. Take which you please — you can never have both."38 No one quite had the answer. "I do not understand the animus against Bobby," said William... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 頁
...see what you see, because I am caught up by a strong wind and blown so far in one direction that 1 am out of the hoop of your horizon. Is it any better...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. c* He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the... | |
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