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Experience
Ralph Waldo Emerson(1844)
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Pages: 28
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0-14-043690-7
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Experience is one of Emerson's most profound essays, exploring the nature of human experience and the limitations of knowledge.
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Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none.
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Experience
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Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none.
We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.
All our days are so unprofitable while they pass, that 'tis wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue.
The great and crescive self, rooted in absolute nature, supplants all relative existence and ruins the kingdom of mortal friendship and love.