Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for read more

Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

Man is a piece of the universe made alive

Man is a piece of the universe made alive

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community
can constitute a state. I think we read more

I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community
can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we
must get rid of freedom.