Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.

Peter Lombard

Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.

Steven Johnson

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

Samuel Smiles

I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one of America's darkest hours.

Thomas P. Campbell

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

V. S. Naipaul

Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.

Wilhelm Dilthey

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

Wilhelm Reich

The people I love, I'm committed to loving for the rest of my life.

bell hooks

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

Bernard Williams

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Erich Fromm

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

Gregory Bateson

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

Socrates

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

Georg Simmel

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

Josiah Royce

I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.

Mona Simpson

Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.

Vinoba Bhave

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

William James