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Leaves Of Grass American Scholar
1,416 wordsAccording to Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American Scholar is one whose individual character is split. The Emersonian character is made up of many different parts, therefore influenced by several aspects of everyday life. As Emerson states, Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state, these functions are parceled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his (294). One can easily relate...
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Public Use Of One Reason Public Use Of One Enlightenment
1,465 wordsEnlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Super aude! 1 "Have courage to use your own reason!" -- that is the motto of enlightenment. Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long si...
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Leonardo Da Vinci Qualities Of A Scholar One
354 wordsThere are many things that a scholar is and is not, people's opinion of one varies greatly. A scholar, in my view, is someone extraordinary, unlike anyone who has come before him. He can be characterized by three main qualities. One of which revolves around a constant hunger for knowledge. A scholar always wishes to learn and know more. He is on a never ending quest to enhance his intellectual capacity, and acquire as much information as humanely possible. In addition to being curious, one must ...
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Emerson Whitman
1,444 wordsAccording to Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American Scholar is one whose individual character is split. The Emersonian character is made up of many different parts, therefore influenced by several aspects of everyday life. As Emerson states, ? Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state, these functions are parceled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his? (294). One can easily rel...
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Guru Granth Sahib Guru Nanak Dev
4,216 wordsWHAT TO MEDITATE UPON? Gurbani orders that while repeating NAM one should meditate upon the Formless Lord. One should not meditate on only painting or photograph even if it is of one of the Gurus. Gurbani also forbids to meditate upon the form of a living person. In support of the above fundamental principle quotation, from Gurbani, if all the ten Gurus are given below: O mortal, meditate on NAM only. In this manner you shall go with honour to your home Page 1254 / 5 He, who has created the crea...
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