A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Essays - 第 52 頁Ralph Waldo Emerson 著 - 1848 - 333 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2006 - 98 頁
...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... | |
| Milton Birnbaum - 230 頁
...reader may expect quite regularly. In this respect, Huxley shares Emerson's belief that "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Let us not add "educators" as well to this unholy Emersonian trinity. VII THE SOCIETAL SELF There are... | |
| Ralph Keyes - 2007 - 416 頁
...oversimplified excerpt from Emerson's more nuanced thought in his 1841 essay "Self-Reliance": "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Verdict: Simplified Emerson. "CONTEMPT prior to investigation." This popular observation is widely... | |
| Andrew Epstein - 2006 - 376 頁
...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... | |
| Brad Castro - 2007 - 102 頁
...perhaps, produces a varied character, not a uniform one. In Self-Reliance, Emerson writes, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." And near the end of Song of Myself, Whitman adds: Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict... | |
| Bill Sanders, William Sanders - 2007 - 74 頁
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| James R. Simmons, Jr - 2007 - 500 頁
...Coupar Angus. 3 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), American essayist, philosopher, and poet. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines" is from the essay "SelfReliance" (Essays, 1841). 4 "mountain dew"] any whiskey, but especially illegally... | |
| Kimberly Campbell - 2007 - 233 頁
...Publishers. All rights reserved. No reproduction without written permission from publisher. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Students noted the quotes listed above as lines that struck them in this essay. They wanted to know... | |
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