 | Peter Abbs - 1989 - 206 trang
...always talking of originality but what does that mean? As soon as we are born the world begins to act on us and this goes on to the end. And, after all, what...strength and will? If I could give an account of all I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favour ...... | |
 | Louis Auchincloss - 1998 - 412 trang
...do not exhaust the sources of my culture, that would be an endless as well as an unnecessary task. People are always talking about originality but what...will. If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries there would be but a small balance in my favor. These were... | |
 | Charles Horton Cooley - 1998 - 284 trang
...in the dependence of genius on influences. "People are always talking about originality," he says, "but what do they mean? As soon as we are born the...will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor. "' He even... | |
 | 2002 - 300 trang
...time, which were wholly subjective; while in my objective efforts, I stood alone to my disadvantage. -People are always talking about originality; but...mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work on us, and this goes on to the end. What can we call our own except energy, strength, and will? -Whether... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 trang
...for American 12. Here is the passage of Goethe Emerson has in mind, both here and in "Quotation and Originality": "People are always talking about originality;...will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would not be much left over" (Gesprache, 3:204, no.... | |
 | 1899 - 580 trang
...Goethe saw this, when he said: • People are always talking about originality — but what do thev mean ? As soon as we are born, the world begins to...we call our own, except energy, strength, and will 1 If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would... | |
 | George Wright Buckley - 1901 - 262 trang
...that truth is the property of no individual, but is the treasure of all men. — Emerson. People arc always talking about originality, but what do they...begins to work upon us ; and this goes on to the end. ... If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - 1912 - 492 trang
...howsoever vague, but is indelibly registered for future weal or woe. "As soon as we are born," says Goethe, "the world begins to work upon us and this goes on to the end." As the senses of sight, taste, hearing, etc., develop more and more, all. the objects of nature operate... | |
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People are always talking about originality ; but what do they mean ? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end. And, after all, what can we call our own except energy, strength, and will ? If I could give an... 
