Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Our great cultural error is to assume that 'truth' arrives only through reductive theories.

Siri Hustvedt

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

William James

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

Adam Smith

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

Allen Tate

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

Irving Babbitt

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.

James Martineau

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

John Ruskin

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

Mason Cooley

Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.

Meghan O'Rourke

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

Max Weber

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Plato

Knowledge is generally considered a good thing; so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.

Peter Singer

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

Richard Dawkins

Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.

Richard Dawkins

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Sophocles

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Thomas Hardy

If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.

Wilfred Owen

A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.

William Shenstone