The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle. Gertrude Stein, Writer and Thinker - Page 65by Claudia Franken - 2000 - 393 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...to fade and disappear as an early cloud of insignificant result in a history so large and advancing. The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire,...our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and do something without knowing how or why ; in short, to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 334 pages
...to fade and disappear as an early cloud of insignificant result in a history so large and advancing. The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire,...our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and do something without knowing how or why ; in short, to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...fade and disappear, as an early cloud of insignificant result in a history so large and advancing. The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire...memory and to do something without knowing how or why; in short, to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. The way of... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 pages
...fade and disappear, as an early cloud of insignificant result in a history so large and advancing. The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire...memory, and to do something without knowing how or why ; in short, to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. The way of... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 466 pages
...to fade and disappear as an early cloud of insignificant result in a history so large and advancing. The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire...memory and to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved 'without enthusiasm. The way of... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 138 pages
...the morning after meditating the matter before sleep on the previous night. INTELLECT JULY EIGHTEENTH The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire...memory and to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. The way of... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 496 pages
...to fade and disappear as an early cloud of insignificant result in a history so large and advancing. The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire...memory and to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. The way of... | |
| 1909 - 540 pages
...to fade and disappear as an early cloud of insignificant result in a history so large and advancing. The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire...memory and to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. The way of... | |
| 1917 - 266 pages
...be right. Emerson, the philosopher of youth, has given the idea pleasing and elaborate expression : The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire...memory, and to do something without knowing how or why ; in short, to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. The way of... | |
| Gladys Rosaleen Turquet-Milnes - 1926 - 200 pages
...which few apply.' 1 Thus the soul can only save itself by losing itself. 'The one thing', Emerson says, 'which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget...memory, and to do something without knowing how or why.' In other words, the soul, according to Plotinus, creates in knowing, and knows by creating ;... | |
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