> .
> Emerson's essay on intellect
> Is a brilliant example of the distinction
> Made between objective conceptions
> Of truth and artistic ones, after deconstructing the objective conceptions of
> his day he writes:
> "Intellect lies behind genius, which is constructive. Intellect is the simple
> power anterior to
> all action or construction."
> He begins to associate intellect
> As the fruit of art and the spontaneous ...
> "If we consider what persons have stimulated and profited us, we
> shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive
> principle over the arithmetical or logical. The first contains the
> second, but virtual and latent. We want, in every man, a long logic;
> we cannot pardon the absence of it, but it must not be spoken. Logic
> is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but
> its virtue is as silent method; "
>
> Intellect is the unfolding of intuition
>
> "We are all wise. The difference in
> persons is not in
> wisdom but in art. "
>
> The principle of art lies in community
> And communication ..
>
> " To genius must always
> go two gifts, the thought and the publication. The first is
> revelation, always a miracle, which no frequency of occurrence or
> incessant study can ever familiarize, but which must always leave the
> inquirer stupid with wonder. It is the advent of truth into the
> world, a form of thought now, for the first time, bursting into the
> universe, a child of the old eternal soul, a piece of genuine and
> immeasurable greatness. It seems, for the time, to inherit all that
> has yet existed, and to dictate to the unborn. It affects every
> thought of man, and goes to fashion every institution. But to make
> it available, it needs a vehicle or art by which it is conveyed to
> men."
>
> .
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Nov 30, 2013, at 3:37 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Ralph Waldo Emerson: Intellect
>>
>>
>> "Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best
>> deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous
>> glance shall bring you, whilst you rise from your bed, or walk abroad in the
>> morning after meditating the matter before sleep on the previous night. Our
>> thinking is a pious reception. Our truth of thought is therefore vitiated as
>> much by too violent direction given by our will, as by too great negligence.
>> We do not determine what we will think. We only open our senses, clear away,
>> as we can, all obstruction from the fact, and suffer the intellect to see.
>> We have little control over our thoughts. We are the prisoners of ideas.
>> They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that
>> we take no thought for the morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to
>> make them our own. By and by we fall out of that rapture, bethink us where
>> we have been, what we have seen, and repeat, as truly as we can, what we
>> have behel
d.
>> As far as we can recall these ecstasies, we carry away in the ineffaceable
>> memory the result, and all men and all the ages confirm it. It is called
>> Truth. But the moment we cease to report, and attempt to correct and
>> contrive, it is not truth."
>>
>>
>>
>> http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4_36Y4mG_CI
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