The true philosopher and the true poet are one,_x000D_ and a beauty, which is truth,_x000D_ and a truth, which is beauty,_x000D_ is the aim of both.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that philosophers and poets seek to uncover beauty and truth, which are deeply interconnected.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the unity of philosophy and poetry, asserting that both disciplines strive towards capturing and expressing the essence of beauty and truth. He implies that true understanding and artistic expression go hand-in-hand, highlighting the importance of both in the pursuit of knowledge and creativity.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a discussion about the role of art in understanding life.
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?
Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.
The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love.
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
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