"The Poet" Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part III
The Universe is the externization of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XV
Letter XIX TWO principal and different states of passive and active capacity of being determined can be distinguished in man; in like...
A Defence of Poetry - Part X
The functions of the poetical faculty are twofold: by one it creates new materials of knowledge, and power, and pleasure; by the other it...
Tao Te Ching - Part III
Chapter 19 End sagacity; abandon knowledge The people benefit a hundred times End benevolence; abandon righteousness The people return...
Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part VIII
Letter XII THIS twofold labour or task, which consists in making the necessary pass into reality in usand in making out of us reality...