We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that we are surrounded by a vast, profound understanding that influences our lives.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote highlights the idea that we exist within an environment filled with deep intelligence and wisdom. It implies that there is a greater knowledge at play in the universe, guiding our actions and thoughts, and that we should be aware of and reflect upon this intelligence as it shapes our experiences and understanding of life.
In practice
In a philosophical discussion about the nature of existence and intelligence.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination to keep on conjouring and proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
We have to recognize that sin is a fact, not a defect; sin is red-handed mutiny against God. Either God or sin must die in my life...If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.
That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.
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