"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...
"The Poet" by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Part I
A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XX
Letter XXIV ACCORDINGLY three different moments or stages of development can be distinguished, which the individual man, as well as the...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part XIII
XVII WHILE we were only engaged in deducing the universal idea of beauty from the conception of human nature in general, we had only to...
Tao Te Ching - Part IX (Finale)
Chapter 75 The people's hunger Is due to the excess of their ruler's taxation So they starve The people's difficulty in being governed...
Tao Te Ching - Part VIII
Chapter 67 Everyone in the world calls my Tao great As if it is beyond compare It is only because of its greatness That it seems...
A Defence of Poetry - Part XI (Finale)
A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the...
Tao Te Ching - Part VII
Chapter 57 Govern a country with upright integrity Deploy the military with surprise tactics Take the world with non-interference How...
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man - Part X
Letter XIV WE have been brought to the idea of such a correlation between the two impulsions that the action of the one establishes and...
Tao Te Ching - Part VI
Chapter 48 Pursue knowledge, daily gain Pursue Tao, daily loss Loss and more loss Until one reaches unattached action With unattached...
