Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

Erich Fromm

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

Erich Fromm

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

Erich Fromm

I like to have a regimen. I don't like to be fancy free.

Eugene Levy

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

bell hooks

When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.

bell hooks

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Barbara Kingsolver

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Baruch Spinoza

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Baruch Spinoza

He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.

Glenn Greenwald

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

George Henry Lewes

I'm kind of an all-in person. If I'm going to direct I'm going to take the challenge on.

George Mastras

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

Georg Simmel

The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.

Georg Trakl

If one is satisfied with things, one doesn't complain about the downsides that exist, either.

Georg Henrik von Wright

As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.

Harry Frankfurt

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Jean Rostand

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

John Ruskin

I don't write on demand - I wait for inspiration to come.

Jill Scott