
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
“Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.”
The Fugitive Slave Law http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=75&Itemid=254, a lecture in New York City (7 March 1854), The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904)
“God only knows
God makes his plan
The information's unavailable
To the mortal man.”
Slip Slidin' Away
Song lyrics
Context: God only knows
God makes his plan
The information's unavailable
To the mortal man.
We work our jobs
Collect our pay
Believe we're gliding down the highway
When in fact we're slip slidin' away.
"Repentance and Impenitence" p. 369
Lectures on Systematic Theology (1878)
“What theology that would have been, a god self-worshipping, a drug addicted to itself.”
Source: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 18 (p. 239)
Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (1799)
Context: To the Eyes of a Miser a Guinea is more beautiful than the Sun & and a bag worn with the use of Money has more beautiful proportions than a Vine filled with Grapes. The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the Eyes of others only a Green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all Ridicule and Deformity, and by these I shall not regulate my proportions; and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the Eyes of the Man of Imagination, Nature is Imagination itself. As a man is, So he Sees. As the Eye is formed, such are its Powers..
Source: The Next Development in Man (1948), p. 276