...noblest meaning of the word." — Schopenhauer. "The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defiant though he look he has a helm which he obeys, which...by showing him a new idea which commands his own." — Emerson. "All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them...

...of wisdom. It gave him courage to believe he could understand. "You see, Goldstein," it was Emerson, "the key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he looks, he has a helm which he obeys. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands...

...only Kangaroo among the Beauty." "The only sin is limitation," Emerson wrote in his essay "Circles." "The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which,...from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outward to new and larger circles, and that without end. . . . Step by step we scale this mysterious...

...our past. And what we will be tomorrow depends largely upon our thinking today. Emerson said, "Tlie key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he looks, lie lias a helm which lie obeys, which is tlie idea after which all his thoughts are classified....

...construction of The Scarlet Letter and the imagery supporting it reflect Emerson's notion that "The life of a man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes out on all sides outward to new and larger circles, and that without end, ... [that] the heart refuses...

...have to be able to think freely and open our minds to new possibilities. This is conscious evolution. The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys. . . He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson...

...free" (E&L 949, 953). Emerson's polar vacillation in "Circles" is clear in two additional passages. "The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes out on all sides to new and larger circles, and that without end. The extent to which this generation...

...Republic, Book IV, 422e-423a; Book VIII, 55 Id. 76 See Emerson, "Circles," in Selected Essays, p. 404: "The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying...by showing him a new idea which commands his own." mimesis for support (Tocqueville). In any event, it cannot survive because oligarchy is an incoherent...

...that happen to orbit each moment. Interestingly, as Ralph Waldo Emerson famously wrote, the life of a man 'is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring...on all sides outwards to new and larger circles'. Inherent in this idea is the possibility of different outcomes. As Emerson explains: The extent to...

...intonations concerning the circle are subtler than Pascal's. On the surface, so to speak, they sound hopeful: "The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which,...from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outward to new and larger circles, and that without end." But the pentimento beneath this optimistic...