About this title: Six essays and one address outline Emerson's moral idealism and hint at later scepticism. In addition to title essay, this volume includes "History," "Friendship," "The Over-Soul," "The Poet" and "Experience," plus the Harvard Divinity School Address.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780486277905ISBN:0486277909
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780486277905ISBN:0486277909
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 128 p. Dover Thrift Editions. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780486277905ISBN:0486277909
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"I should read Self-Reliance every year, make it an annual event, a reminder to be true to myself. A literary prescription for confidence, peace and presence of mind."
"I think this is one of those books that should be in a study group---especially the essay "Self-Reliance". I have to go real slow with reading this, because it provokes alot of 'thought' energy."
"Emerson has a way with words that I find seldom matched by others. His prose is rich with imagery that it feels as though I am constructing a physical edifice out of his ideas as I read. My own bias is apparent in the fact that part of the reason I like Emerson so much is that my own meditations on life are similar to his. This particular book, for which is he is most well known for, emphasizes that nothing of true value can come from without and only from within. I can see though how his philosophy of individualism might have been bastardized by later Americans to think that the individual is supreme over everything and everyone else, thus creating the frustrating sense of isolation that so many feel today. (Likely this bastardization occurred when some clever person found a way to use the philosophy of individualism to exploit his fellow man for his own end). I believe what Emerson was focusing on was the primacy of the individualism of the soul's journey. That no one but yourself can give your life meaning that will be accompanied by an inner peace. Life is not disconnected from life, but how we experience life and recognizing it is very personal and only seen through the eyes of our own souls.
In going completely against what Emerson expounded upon in his book I am going to here list some quotes that I found quite moving:
"This is the ultimate fact which we so quickly reach on this, as on every topic, the resolution of all into the ever-blessed ONE. Self-existence is the attribute of the Supreme Cause, and it constitutes the measure of good by the degree in which it enters into all lower forms".
"Man does not stand in awe of man, nor is his genius admonished to stay at home, to put itself in communication with the internal ocean, but it goes abroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of other men. We must go alone. I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching".
"I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should. I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me, and the heart appoints. If you are noble, I will love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself by hypocritical attentions".
"And truly it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others! "
"We are parlour soldiers. We shun the rugged battle of fate, where strength is born."
"Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul".
"Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors, and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God"."
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