Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
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.
Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should
be an inventor.
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should
be an inventor.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale,
their feet are cold, their heads are read more
The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale,
their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without
sleep, the day a fear of interruption,--pallor, squalor, hunger,
and egotism. If you come near them and see what conceits they
entertain--they are abstractionists, and spend their days and
nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society
to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of
proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application,
and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize
it.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the read more
Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.
Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher read more
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
