
Episode 102: Emerson on Wisdom and Individuality
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The One Thing in the World of Value Is the Active Soul
Orinda miamaliac ise. giving this lecture at harvard right ym. And he's a, he's got some cohones on books. Are the best things, well used, abused, among the worst e what is the right use? What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are nothing but to inspire? I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction, clean out of my own orbit and made a satellite instead of a system. The sole active sees absolute truth and utters truth, or creates. In this action, it is genius. This every man is entitled to. This. Every man contains tin him,
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