Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

...the real is coherent and probable because it is real, not real because it is coherent...

The Visible and the Invisible

Let this hell be our heaven.

What Dreams May Come

Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

Whale Talk

Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic.

The World of the Sufi: An Anthology of Writings about Sufis and Their Work

Das Negative zu tun, ist uns noch auferlegt, das Positive ist uns schon gegeben.

The Zürau Aphorisms

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

Bernard Williams

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

Gustave Flaubert

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

Henry Van Dyke

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

Jean Giraudoux

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

Johann Georg Hamann

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Leonardo da Vinci

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Miguel de Cervantes

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

Paul Tournier

At times I think and at times I am.

Paul Valery

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.

Annie Dillard

The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.

Andrew Motion

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Brian Greene

The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

Chuck Palahniuk

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Henry Ford

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

Homer