Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. Essays: First Series - Seite 54von Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 322 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 Seiten
...misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit...law of his being, as the inequalities of Andes and Himinaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere. Nor does it matter how yon gauge and try him.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 Seiten
...misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. 15. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 Seiten
...misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit...nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by thejaw ofjiis being as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the... | |
| 1841 - 640 Seiten
...misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit...no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of bis will are rounded in by the law of his being, as the inequalities of Andes and 1 1 immaleh are insignificant... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1842 - 782 Seiten
...and wilfulness have not thwarted, have not aided to an appreciable degree.' — Essay xi., p. 330. ' I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies...Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere.' — Essay ii., p. 58. Nothing can be more satisfactory to mankind, especially to the guilty portion... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 Seiten
...misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is t<y be misunderstood. I suppose no man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 Seiten
...misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit...the curve of the sphere. Nor does it matter how you guage and try him. A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza ; — read it forward, backward,... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 Seiten
...misunderstood t Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit...flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. I suppose no-man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being as... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 Seiten
...misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit...ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. CHRIST AND CHRISTIANITV. — Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 Seiten
...misunderstood ? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to bo misunderstood. CHKIST AND CHRISTIANITY. — Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets.... | |
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