He supported this concept that we should rely on our own intuition and beliefs. ... The belief that a man must do what he feels to be happy. ... To do what is against human nature is to violate the laws of Nature. ... Human nature tells us that if something is uncomfortable, we should leave. Conformity with society has disabled this aspect of human nature. ...
The Transcendentalists were characterized by a belief in the doctrine that there existed an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is knowable only through intuition. ... In opposition to Emerson's belief of conformity as negative, that the conformist will be "clapped into jail by his own consciousness" (21), conformity is a necessary characteristic of man developed to avoid very real dangers. ... Emerson claims that "No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. ... With this boldness he dares to suggest that societal rules and laws are completely se...
"If a plant cannot live according to his nature, it dies; and so a man" (Emerson, Civil Disobedience, 260). ... Your nature. ... It is supposed to be what fits that beings experiences, ideas, beliefs, truths, and ideals. ... Emerson and Thoreau were very innovative men. ... For, as Emerson said, "If a plant cannot live according to his nature, it dies; and so a man" (Emerson, Civil Disobedience, 260)....
Cut through the all of the social mores and beliefs that have jaded our view on this wonderful world in which we live. ... In this passage from Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature, Emerson explains to us that we cannot chase the beauty of nature. ... When we search for the beauty in nature it will always elude us. ... These are the true beauties of nature. ... I think that is partly what Emerson was getting at, the magic. ...
Members of the Bloomsbury group "held in common a belief in the paramount importance of good taste, personal relationships, and the pursuit of knowledge" (Ford). ... It is also noteworthy that the character of George Emerson is based upon Hugh O. ... The themes of Forster's 1908 novel A Room with a View demonstrate his beliefs in romanticism very well. ... This is exactly why the Emersons are not accepted well in the Pension Bertolini. ... Lucy Honeychurch and George Emerson could well be the basis for a definition of romanticism. ...
Cut through the all of the social mores and beliefs that have jaded our view on this wonderful world in which we live. ... In this passage from Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature, Emerson explains to us that we cannot chase the beauty of nature. ... When we search for the beauty in nature it will always elude us. ... These are the true beauties of nature. ... I think that is partly what Emerson was getting at, the magic. ...
Few were educated due to the prevalent belief that women didn't have the capacity to learn and that women were predestined to lives of domestic servitude. ... "Although he paid lip-service to a firm belief in the equality of the sexes, it was not in his character to treat his wife as a partner with rights equal to his own" (Wade 5). ... Fuller's affiliation with men like Ralph Waldo Emerson (who became her lifelong friend), Bronson Alcott, George Ripley and William Ellery Channing initiated her into the new world of so-called Transcendentalists. ... In 1840, the Transcendentalist ...
Underlying both domestic and international terrorism against the United States is usually the belief that America is unduly hegemonic in this world and consequently needs - deserves, even - to be brought to its knees. ... While his ideas and anxieties aren't especially new - we need only recall Huxley's Brave New World or Orwell's 1984 - the Unabomber's call to a revolution against technology and his readiness to shed blood for his beliefs set him apart. ... His manifesto - which he sent to the New York Times and Washington Post demanding publication within three months "...
Immortality, life after death, and infinity are people's concern and interest .Everyone one has a desire to still alive and to examine life and its secrets, Immortality expresses the existence of souls after the death of the body to confirm the fact; that death is not the end of everything .The origin of this belief, the existence of souls after death is a global abstract phenomenon that some anthropologist refers it to dreams which inspire of continuity of dead people existence. ... Finally, In America Emerson has written a complete essay about immortality, he said "the soul is not bo...
But these two perspectives do not quite run concurrently with Mark Twain's belief that one needs both a strong intellect and emotional consistency to achieve freedom. ... For all intents and purposes, Huck was a free individual who embodied everything that Ralph Waldo Emerson believed in – self-reliance, self-reference, and self-responsibility. ... In the case of Huck's father, the judge deemed Pap fit to care for Huck despite Pap's brutish figure and nature and his history with Huck, something that Huck failed to mention. ...
